"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.

DP. I disagree. At the beginning, there was no cause for real alarm, so it wasn’t as if George Ann daughter had a real “emergency.” Amanda and Clay had rented the house and signed a contract. The owners should have gone to a hotel, not to their home which was being rented out! Additionally, they had no way to prove who they were, so Amanda was completely right to be so suspicious. George knew how weird it was to show up there so he was being very conciliatory and polite. Remember, all of that happened before anyone had any idea there was an emergency at all. George and daughter should have simply gotten a hotel room.

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Anonymous wrote:I really liked the book. It kind of makes you uneasy..I feel like the movie is achieving this..Julia Roberts has pretty much played unlikeable roles for a long time...it's her thing now.

Yes, both the book and movie have a feeling of unease. Even though it's not a horror or thriller, I had strange post apocalyptic dreams after watching.

+1
The music definitely set the tone for deep dread.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:Needed a happy ending.

Not every movie gets a happy ending, sweetie. What did you think? The internet would be restored magically, Rose could watch the last episode of Friends somewhere other than a bunker? The deer and flamingoes would become friends and live peacefully together ever after?

I am shocked by the negative reviews but as another PP said, this isn't a very "deep" group. In fact it's a rather dim group.

I think it would have been better if the boy got better from the medicine and the families were reunited. They could have all been in the bunker and bonded and then come out afterwards.

DP. Use your imagination! Rose hears Amanda calling for her, so obviously we know Amanda is close by and she was heading towards the house anyway. Clay and George were heading back at the same time. Of course they’re all going to meet up there and ride out the war. Maybe they’ll survive, maybe not. But we know they’ll be safe for a good long while. Not everything has to be spelled out.

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Anonymous wrote: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

The author of that article seems to have not watched or understood the movie. The Teslas weren’t programmed to “chase people.” They were programmed to leave the lots and jam up all the highways since they were self-driving. They would simply drive until they ran into the car in front of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Julia is 56…too old to play the mother of a 13 year old imho…very unlikely.

I agree with most criticisms of this movie, but I think this one is unfair. Many women manage to get pregnant in their 40s and I think our society is way more ageist with women than with men.

I think it’s distracting to see an over-exposed celeb like Julia who we all know is closer to 60 than 50 playing a mother to a 13 year old. Why not give her two older teens?

She’s entered the part of her career where she needs to play her age or older…not younger.

Well I am 53 and have an 12 and 9 year old so… doesn’t distract me.

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Anonymous wrote:Julia is 56…too old to play the mother of a 13 year old imho…very unlikely.

I agree with most criticisms of this movie, but I think this one is unfair. Many women manage to get pregnant in their 40s and I think our society is way more ageist with women than with men.

I think it’s distracting to see an over-exposed celeb like Julia who we all know is closer to 60 than 50 playing a mother to a 13 year old. Why not give her two older teens?

She’s entered the part of her career where she needs to play her age or older…not younger.

Well I am 53 and have an 12 and 9 year old so… doesn’t distract me.

I agree. I think I gave their ages a quick thought but otherwise it wasn’t a distraction. But just about everything about her performance was a distraction. Early in the movie I wondered if it was supposed to be campy, or purposefully overdone. I stopped watching it to read some quick reviews to figure out what was going on and all the reviews were mostly positive so I kept watching. But many times I wondered what Julia Roberts was trying to do with her performance. The whole movie was an absolute mess. And I did like the book, and I usually like Julia Roberts.

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Dcum has explained a lot. But I shouldn’t have to come to dcum for answers.
It should be explained during the movie. There were too many vague unknowns with this one. I sat through it but wasn’t impressed.

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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.” 🤮

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting.
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.

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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.” 🤮

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting.
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.

Forgot to mention Ethan Hawk also steps into the line of fire to reach the settlement for meds. Just because you don't like their initial reactions to each other doesn't mean they were cast as stereotypes.

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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.” 🤮

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting.
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.

What? I watched the entire movie, and still think that line ("never trust white people") was garbage. The Amanda and Clay characters didn't trust George and his daughter at first, and for good reason - not because they were black, but because they were total strangers claiming they owned the house and needed to stay there with them. I honestly wouldn't have let anyone into the house who just showed up like that - regardless of what color they were. But clearly, the daughter thinks Amanda's rudeness is due to the fact that she and George are black.

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Anonymous wrote:Dcum has explained a lot. But I shouldn’t have to come to dcum for answers.
It should be explained during the movie. There were too many vague unknowns with this one. I sat through it but wasn’t impressed.

You seriously can't use your imagination and context clues to deduce what's going on?

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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.” 🤮

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting.
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.

Forgot to mention Ethan Hawk also steps into the line of fire to reach the settlement for meds. Just because you don't like their initial reactions to each other doesn't mean they were cast as stereotypes.

DP. I guess I'm wondering who it is you're responding to because none of the above posters have said anything about stereotypes.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is an interesting twitter thread on a bunch of hidden information people spotted in the movie, including a QR code on the CNN map.

https://x.com/redpilldrifter/status/1734681926227906790?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg

I don't have a twitter account.

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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.” 🤮

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting.
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.

What? I watched the entire movie, and still think that line ("never trust white people") was garbage. The Amanda and Clay characters didn't trust George and his daughter at first, and for good reason - not because they were black, but because they were total strangers claiming they owned the house and needed to stay there with them. I honestly wouldn't have let anyone into the house who just showed up like that - regardless of what color they were. But clearly, the daughter thinks Amanda's rudeness is due to the fact that she and George are black.

Well I guess Ali's character could have forcibly removed the family from the house. It's not like they could call and complain now could they. Also, Ali was the only one with access to a firearm to make his point. It was abundantly clear he was the homeowner. He knew both Julia's first and last name, he had access to the liquor cabinet, and he knew the layout of the house. If it was me, once they left the house to go back to the city, Roberts' family would have been sleeping in the basement.

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Anonymous wrote:I love dystopian movies and books, so I was looking forward to this one - lots of mixed reviews!

Dam