“A cathartic exorcism”. Death to 2020, which in the title brings with it the scream of anyone who has experienced the annus horribilis, was born from the desire to free oneself. To give vent to the daughter’s jokes of desperation and cynicism. It was born to honor, with a sufficient dose of mysticism and superstition, the ancient rite of catharsis, to purify oneself and find oneself more ready and light in 2021. Death to 2020, fake documentary made for Netflix by the creators of Black Mirror, is an opportunity to retrace the events of the year ending: not only the Coronavirus pandemic, but the fires in Australia, Brexit, the death of George Floyd, the conspiracy of Donald Trump, certain that his electoral defeat is due to fraud.
The film, available online from the Sunday after Christmas, analyzes the facts of a year running out. He analyzes them together with fake experts, interpreted – masterfully – by Hugh Grant, scientist without science, Lisa Kudrow, unofficial spokesperson for the US Conservatives, Leslie Jones, misanthropic behavioral psychologist, Samuel L. Jackson, journalist of the elusive New Yorkelry Times, Tracey Ullmann, caricature of Queen Elizabeth I, and Joe Keery, a young hero of Stranger Things turned into a billionaire nerd.
Death to 2020 he brings his actors, phantom experts in front of the camera, and interviews them with the rigor imposed by documentary narration. What emerges in the (albeit partial) account of the dying year is the profound and daunting complexity of the present time. A time in which it is not the health emergency that represents the greatest danger for humanity. What Death to 2020 it seems to mean is to pay attention to the more subtle pandemics, to the silent spread of hatred and ignorance, to the rapid spread of racism and conspiracies. Death to 2020: a nice opportunity to conclude with a laugh a year that had very little fun. A necessary warning for building a better tomorrow.
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