Twisters doesn’t mention climate change to avoid saying anything ‘message-oriented’

Though Universal’s Twisters is set to drop as the US deals with a massive heatwave, wildfires, and the aftermath of multiple deadly storms, the movie goes out of its way to avoid mentioning climate change because its director didn’t want to make audiences uncomfortable.

It would have made sense if Twisters — a film about storm chasers studying a spate of unusually powerful and destructive tornadoes — worked climate change into its story. But in a recent interview with CNN, director Lee Isaac Chung said that, even though he thinks cinema “should be a reflection of the world,” he avoided mentioning climate change in Twisters because he doesn’t “feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

Chung pointed to the way that some of T...

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