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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.[/quote]

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). [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]

For those of us who hadn’t read the new book only could have been a mistress.

No one made any effort to explain the ID situation or prove nuances of the property [/quote]

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