"Leave the World Behind" film

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Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

He had his own stock pile and shelter. He was a survivalist. He will pay them a visit if and when his stockpile runs out.

I actually enjoyed the movie although I found it unrealistic in parts. If that is my house, I am not sleeping in the basement with my teenage daughter. That part made no sense to me. Julia would be lucky I did not kick her and her family out. I did not understand Ali jumping in front of a possible bullet for someone he just met and leaving his teenage daughter behind in a world that he knew was upside down. I also do not comprehend why the son was the only one of all of them that was impacted by the radiation when they all received the same amount. Finally, I don't understand the deer and flamingos in Long Island. Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Bacon is an example of how people you thought were friendly will turn during a time of survival.

The flamingos were in Long Island because the migration patterns of animals had been disrupted which was reported on the radio when Ethan Hawke was out of his car. Something similar happened this fall when flamingos showed up in Michigan.

I think Ali being over the top accommodating to the white family has to be some play on/representation of how black people may feel the need to overcompensate and please white people. From the very beginning Ali is too nice, long winded in his explanation of why he is there. Oh I am so sorry to bother you blah blah blah when its seems like the normal thing to do is say: Hello, I am the actual owner of this house and we need to come in because we have an emergency. Instead he goes on some banter that takes way too long to get to the point. He also feels some sort of responsibility. And he lets the family back in after they leave. I did like the dig he made about where they lived in Brooklyn. It was well deserved.

I read the book but have an awful memory, so I spent half the movie thinking “I swear he was with his wife in the book…?” So I went googling after. According to Sam Esmail, the reason they made the wife/daughter switch was to highlight the generational change in how two people might react to this same situation.

For people who did or didn’t like it, I’m curious whether you’ve seen other Sam Esmail projects and whether that makes a difference? I didn’t love it (though thought the ending was actually much closer to closure than the book!) but also thought it was more or less what I expected after Mr Robot and Homecoming.

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Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

He had his own stock pile and shelter. He was a survivalist. He will pay them a visit if and when his stockpile runs out.

I actually enjoyed the movie although I found it unrealistic in parts. If that is my house, I am not sleeping in the basement with my teenage daughter. That part made no sense to me. Julia would be lucky I did not kick her and her family out. I did not understand Ali jumping in front of a possible bullet for someone he just met and leaving his teenage daughter behind in a world that he knew was upside down. I also do not comprehend why the son was the only one of all of them that was impacted by the radiation when they all received the same amount. Finally, I don't understand the deer and flamingos in Long Island. Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Bacon is an example of how people you thought were friendly will turn during a time of survival.

I also thought a lot of it was unrealistic. So the whole town has “disappeared” (except for the Spanish-speaking lady and Kevin Bacon) yet nobody heard screams or yelling or people frantically running around looking for safety. For example, the neighbors house was all trashed and no one heard anything? Doesn’t make sense…

Ok, I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think you were watching very closely.

Hawke's character never makes it back to town. He drives by a farm stand, stops to speak to the Spanish speaking lady, then the drone with the flyers flies over and he races back to the house.

The area they are in is a vacation area with homes set far apart. Ali says most people won't be around at this time of year and also notes that his neighbors are a few miles down the road.

The house is trashed because a plan has crashed nearby, but I do agree that planes crashing are very loud and that they would have heard this from even a few miles away.

The isolation theme was intentional.

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I was so disappointed by this terrible movie.

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I think the people who are "so disappointed by this terrible movie" have no imagination or critical thinking skills.

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Does anyone who speaks Spanish know what the woman on the side of the road says to Ethan Hawke? I tried using google translate microphone but all it said was “can I use your phone” and I know she said something else.

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I found the movie creepy AF. I thought it was good because I could see how you could execute it. Literally how many of us can drive a car without Google maps in a town we are visiting? I'd have no idea. Only my military husband probably paid attention enough to drive without a map.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the people who are "so disappointed by this terrible movie" have no imagination or critical thinking skills.

It just wasn’t good. Maybe if they cut out about 30 or 40 minutes of it

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

He had his own stock pile and shelter. He was a survivalist. He will pay them a visit if and when his stockpile runs out.

I actually enjoyed the movie although I found it unrealistic in parts. If that is my house, I am not sleeping in the basement with my teenage daughter. That part made no sense to me. Julia would be lucky I did not kick her and her family out. I did not understand Ali jumping in front of a possible bullet for someone he just met and leaving his teenage daughter behind in a world that he knew was upside down. I also do not comprehend why the son was the only one of all of them that was impacted by the radiation when they all received the same amount. Finally, I don't understand the deer and flamingos in Long Island. Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Bacon is an example of how people you thought were friendly will turn during a time of survival.

I also thought a lot of it was unrealistic. So the whole town has “disappeared” (except for the Spanish-speaking lady and Kevin Bacon) yet nobody heard screams or yelling or people frantically running around looking for safety. For example, the neighbors house was all trashed and no one heard anything? Doesn’t make sense…

Ok, I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think you were watching very closely.

Hawke's character never makes it back to town. He drives by a farm stand, stops to speak to the Spanish speaking lady, then the drone with the flyers flies over and he races back to the house.

The area they are in is a vacation area with homes set far apart. Ali says most people won't be around at this time of year and also notes that his neighbors are a few miles down the road.

The house is trashed because a plan has crashed nearby, but I do agree that planes crashing are very loud and that they would have heard this from even a few miles away.

The isolation theme was intentional.

This is PP. I went back and rewatched those scenes. Julia, her kids and the adult daughter are lounging by the pool while “a few miles down the road” there are airplanes crashing into the beach. Yet, there’s hardly any noise outside. Again, not realistic.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who speaks Spanish know what the woman on the side of the road says to Ethan Hawke? I tried using google translate microphone but all it said was “can I use your phone” and I know she said something else.

IIRC, she was saying that she was scared and she needed to get back home. And she saw a plane with red stuff coming down. And she was basically begging him to help her because she was terrified of what was going on.

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Um best part might be that the movie triggered Elon Musk lol!! https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/elon-musk-leave-the-world-behind-netflix-b2463100.html

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone who speaks Spanish know what the woman on the side of the road says to Ethan Hawke? I tried using google translate microphone but all it said was “can I use your phone” and I know she said something else.

She's begging for a ride home because she got really lost and he's the first guy she's seen all day and a plane was flying erratically and she speculates they may be under a chemical attack and if she can use a phone and as he drives off she begs him to take her with him

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Anonymous wrote:I think the people who are "so disappointed by this terrible movie" have no imagination or critical thinking skills.

LOL. Sorry you’re so simple that you liked this trash movie. I’ll bet you liked the last few seasons of GoT, too.

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I just finished and maybe it had the benefit of low expectations from this thread but it was amazing! I loved every moment, except some tense parts punctuated by creepy violin music. It was interesting seeing how the characters processed their emotions and coming to grips being with each other and what happens around them. It was a little terrifying at moments and I'm wary of how dependent we are on satellites.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this movie THIS bad? (Leave the World Behind). I just about gave up in the opening scene when Julia Roberts is standing by a window, the camera zooms in on her aggressively to the point where you can see the pores on her nose, and she's like, "I hate this world" and I'm like WTF who made this s**t.

Which is too bad because apocalypse films are my favorite, because I do in fact hate everything about late stage capitalism.

Can someone watch the rest of this dumb movie and tell me if it's worth the rest of my Friday night.

It was HORRIBLE, bad, terrible, sad, depressing, cynical, had both overt and subtle American messages ("make as many enemies as we have" when referring to North Korea), boring, and overall leaves you with an ick feeling after... Oh and of course the requisite/elitist snobby vocabulary ALL of the characters used (vs just one character). (Oh and Netflix advertising Friends ad nauseam. "nostalgia for a time that never really existed")


Overall theme - humans are terrible, especially American humans.

THIS. Don’t forget: “Never trust white people.” 🤮

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Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

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Give me a Kevin Bacon (character) or Daryl Dixon any day.