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What Don't Look Up is really about

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Power of Story

Wen: I think the power of story is unbelievably compelling. The human species has thousands and thousands of years of conditioning for story, for narrative. And so what was really exciting was, this is a movie, again, it's about climate change,. It's about science, it'sAbout media, it'sabout corruption, it's About government ineptitude. Those are the things that i cover every day in the real world. To mix it with powerful story telling and comedy and that great cast, i knew that it was an opportunity to get the themes of that reporting to a much, much bigger audience.

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