Downsizing 2017 follows a seemingly average man, Paul Safranek, as he makes the decision with his wife to miniaturize himself to fight climate change. Before undergoing the miniaturization process, Paul is separated from his wife. When he wakes up, he learns she backed out of the procedure, and she’s leaving him. Now, stuck at 5 inches tall, Paul must live miniature alone. For most people, the appeal of miniaturization in the movie is that all their money is worth more, as miniature objects cost less to build. After getting divorced, however, Paul is unable to live the lavish life-style most miniature people enjoy. Everything changes when Paul meets his neighbor, and subsequently his neighbor’s housecleaner, whom he learns was a climate change activist now living as a refugee. They travel to the first miniaturized community in Norway where they meet a climate change specialist. He explains that methane has been released in Antarctica, which means the end is here, and all his people will live the next 8,000 years in an underground bunker. This movie analyzes several social issues through comedy, but obviously it overwhelmingly focuses on climate change. In the movie, it’s too late to save the planet. It represents a future that is possible (minus the miniaturization) where we do too little too late. In the movie, there is a solution to climate change, but it becomes just a way for a corporation to pray on the poor. The solution is too little too late. The movie serves as a warning for the future. While it is funny to watch people get miniaturized, the underlying message is still there: we are running out of time.