Decided to review "Leave the World Behind."

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Here it is along with a trailer:

https://moviejunkiemark.blogspot.com

Streaming on Netflix.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. it was mesmerizing. Moved slowly but I think it had to. The end.... hmmmm

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2. It was like driving by a terrible car crash

You want to look away, but you just can't!

[Chalco]

3. Yes!

I saw it and you're right, we were wondering till the very end what in the world was going on. Kept my attention.
I thought the ending worked. I was like "Ok, that's what's going on."

Felt so much like current events. Like it was foreshadowing the next steps in our world.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I think a couple of elements helped make the plot work

First, the enemy or cause of these events are never defined - only alluded to. Getting bogged down with the minutae of details about the cause of events would have detracted from the scope and focus of the film.

Second, there’s nothing supernatural or otherworldly about the horrific events unfolding. If you watch a movie like this, you’re likely to have more than a passing interest in world events - including doomsday scenarios based on things that can really happen.

I was gratified to see that disinformation and misinformation are held up as real possibilities. Who knows what the next year holds in that regard.

[FalloutShelter]

5. You are spot on about this film sticking with you.

It has stuck with me days later, even before I read your threads. Watched it this past weekend.
Super thought-provoking, and I was intrigued by Obama's contribution to the project- advising on how events like those depicted would play out in reality.

[hunter]

6. That sounds unpleasant. No, just no.

One of the things I most love about my wife is how she simply refuses bleak movies. Clever romantic comedies and optimistic speculative fictions are her higher arts. Think TNG Star Trek.

My first serious girlfriend, who I broke up with by jumping out of her moving car causing much bloody damage to myself, loved these kinds of bleak movies. She once took me to Eraserhead on a date.

Overall, I think apocalyptic fiction is too cheap and easy. Who among us hasn't imagined everything going to hell, especially in today's crazy world?

My own PTSD was hard earned and I've got these scars to show for it.

The "real world" I was trying so hard to conform to in my youth was completely self.obliterated in the early 'eighties. And I'm the guy who pulled the fucking trigger.

I've watched one episode of Friends in and I still don't get it. I know someone, Erdős number one, who became a millionaire unconcerned about money working that gig.

One of my kids also had an obsession about that series. One Christmas present was the boxed DVD set, and talking to an actual Friends guy.

Same kid, summer home from college, set us up with Netflix after my wife and I had quit traditional television entirely and were only watching DVDs.