I first saw the trailer for “Twisters” — which opens in theaters on Friday — in May at a movie theater in Houston, where I live.
“You ride ’em.”Yee-haw, I thought in the theater, as I wondered if my air-conditioning at home was back on.
Last week, another powerful storm battered Houston, as Hurricane Beryl had a brief but eventful landfall on the South Texas coast.
A blockbuster romp like “Twisters” is a safe and sanitized way to experience a natural disaster: as a fantasy.
But we can’t let an escapist version of the climate crisis blind us to how woefully unready we are for the effects of the real thing.
Persons:
—, I’d, ”, Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar, Jones, ” Yee, Beryl
Organizations:
Atlantic, Hollywood
Locations:
Houston, Texas