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To find this film disturbing

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Castlerock44 · 11/12/2023 16:54

"Leave the world behind" I find it more like a prediction,/warning on what's to come. Netflix tend to do this. Total shutdown of the internet, pho nes etc and the anarchy that would follow. Could this be a warning of the future? Very disturbing film.

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monsteraa · 12/12/2023 04:11

The movie gets terrible reviews.

If Obama was trying to send a message I think he would have better methods than this.

honeysuckleweeks · 12/12/2023 04:17

ghostyslovesheets · 11/12/2023 18:03

Yes - poison pen letters - a thing of the past - my mum got one once in the 70's accusing her of being a slattern

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Damn . A slattern!!That was from a nasty person with a fab vocabulary! I hope your mum wasn't upset. I'd laugh.

Throwhandsupintheair · 12/12/2023 04:37

I enjoyed the movie. It’s a perfect Saturday night type movie. I also thought it had an end. Just because someone doesn’t jump out and say ‘I’m the bad guy ya’ll! at the end, doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense. The country was under attack and all the comms had been switched off.

sashh · 12/12/2023 05:10

Castlerock44 · 11/12/2023 17:44

I've read The Stand. Very unsettled by it at the time.

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I couldn't get over every male character knowing how to ride a motor bike and none of the females can. That was the most unsettling bit.

Jifmicroliquid · 12/12/2023 06:30

I thought the bit of dialogue by Ethan Hawke was very poignant, when he basically said “I have no phone, no gps, I am nothing”

Makes you think. Have we become so reliant on technology to live our lives that we truly cannot function without it.

Mumtime2 · 12/12/2023 06:40

Castlerock44 · 11/12/2023 17:05

No but Netflix is used to promote scare mongering.

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You Choose to watch it and believe what you like.

lkwhjis · 12/12/2023 06:41

It’s actually quite a poor film. In comparison to better ones in the same genre like Knowing and Children of Men

Lovesacake · 12/12/2023 06:44

Op you do know the film was a book first? Do you think the Obamas also helped to write the book?

Isitsixoclockalready · 12/12/2023 06:54

I'm pretty sure in the past that people have said that the films about asteroids like Deep Impact were priming us for earth colliding with a planetary object and the UFO ones were warning us about an upcoming contact with aliens.

ghostyslovesheets · 12/12/2023 06:56

honeysuckleweeks · 12/12/2023 04:17

Damn . A slattern!!That was from a nasty person with a fab vocabulary! I hope your mum wasn't upset. I'd laugh.

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No she laughed - she was used to the gossip - she dared to be a single parent who gave not a shit about other people’s judgment!

Freshair1 · 12/12/2023 07:22

I think it was a mirror held up to us. While shit happens elsewhere, we watch TV, swipe right, ignore it. Live lives in a bubble. Ethan Hawks character saying he was nothing got it right. Without gps, internet, Comms, we are nothing..... That should scare you. That is the point, I think. Yet it doesn't matter cos look... There's the latest episode of whatever is trending!

Passingthethyme · 12/12/2023 07:25

Castlerock44 · 11/12/2023 23:58

I really don't think it's just a film. The fact the Obama's are involved just makes me suspicious that this film is a message. They know so much more than the rest of us. They probably know whats to come. Why would they get involved with this film?

Maybe it's a wake up call. People need to wake up, rather endlessly scrolling on their phones like zombies! I notice I do it myself!

allitdoesisrain · 12/12/2023 07:27

It is based on a book. It's a story and an exploration of human nature, or that's how I see it.

Sparehair · 12/12/2023 08:53

allitdoesisrain · 12/12/2023 07:27

It is based on a book. It's a story and an exploration of human nature, or that's how I see it.

Yes I agree. The book focuses very much on the dynamics between the husband and wife of the renting couple, that couple and the owners ( race) and the owner couple and the contractor ( race and urban/ rural, second home owner dynamic). It’s not a plot driven dystopian novel. It’s a slow burn where the circumstances create the stress for the dynamics rather than being the main focus.

DonnaBanana · 12/12/2023 08:55

Of course it wouldn’t be as exciting as the film in real life but if a particularly big solar storm knocked out the right things you could be without mains power for months in the worst case which would have a huge impact on your life, survival, etc. Would it be as exciting as a giant ship crashing into the beach? No. It would be drawn out boring but desperate

DazedandConfused1234 · 12/12/2023 09:01

WhereIsBebèsChambre · 11/12/2023 17:14

I thought girls run the world?

Well, let's hope for all our sakes, it's never my day to run the world. I still haven't managed to find the Christmas elves...

plumtreebroke · 12/12/2023 10:18

Castlerock44 · 11/12/2023 23:58

I really don't think it's just a film. The fact the Obama's are involved just makes me suspicious that this film is a message. They know so much more than the rest of us. They probably know whats to come. Why would they get involved with this film?

It was showing black people in a good light, I imagine that was the Obama's main interest. It was an OK film, but not exactly a masterpiece, it didn't really resolve at the end which is always annoying, as if the author couldn't think of a sensible ending.

Or leaving room for one or more sequels, lots more money.

Itsnotallaboutyoulikeyouthink · 12/12/2023 11:34

The only disturbing this was the ended in that it was 💩.

startquitting · 12/12/2023 13:13

Doingtheboxerbeat · 12/12/2023 00:33

Station 11 was the best book I have ever read - couldn't bring myself to watch the show though because I don't want to have to shout at the telly.

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Station 11 is SUCH a good book. Watch it anyway.

CharlottePimpernel · 12/12/2023 13:36

Station 11 the programme is so good- different to the book but still excellent I thought. It's the only thing that's made me cry in years.

Dwappy · 12/12/2023 14:05

I watched it at the weekend. It was OK. But I watch lots of disaster/apocalyptic movies and I wasn't overly impressed. It was watchable but that's it.

I'm not sure why people think it would be a warning though?? Surely if there really is some elite overlords in charge and ruling everything they wouldn't want us to be warned so would not allow the film to be shown?

It's like some of the covid anti vaxxers. My anti vax friend said she heard that anyone who had the vaccine would die in 2 years because the people in charge wanted a smaller population to control. My reply was so they decided to kill off the ones that did as they were told....? Surely that makes it harder! You now have an entire (albiet smaller) population who won't listen to the government and rebel against everything they are told! Surely any overlords worth anything would kill off the rebellious ones??

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/12/2023 14:24

Hmm, you don't need to eliminate the rebellious, you just have to convince enough other people that they're nuts to be ridiculed - the term conspiracy theorist was coined in the wake of the JFK assassination to shut down speculation.

I mean you can't mention the WEF on here without a certain response along the lines of eye rolling and accusations of being "far right" sympathisers. Because it's just a think tank right?

Thing is, the argument about "why would they tell us their nefarious plans (whoever one imagines "they" to be) " is a bit more nuanced.

The Internet and social media is used by governments and corporations to test the ideas market, and refine marketing strategy to bring solutions to problems we didn't even know we had, because that's how capitalism works. The godfather of modern marketing Edward Bernays had his strategies co-opted by the Nazis to refine their propaganda. Allegedly he wasn't happy about it, but hey, it's a "free market".

It's a fact that data is the most valuable commodity in the world, and we now can't live without feeding that beast. How that data is used is often beyond our control, and even when alleged safeguards exist, skilled hackers can get round it and just steal it.

We truly do live in strange and interesting times....

Dwappy · 12/12/2023 14:28

MistressoftheDarkSide · Today 14:24

Hmm, you don't need to eliminate the rebellious, you just have to convince enough other people that they're nuts to be ridiculed

That's true but my point was about some people believing the covid jab would kill anyone who took it leaving those who refused it as the only ones remaining in order for "they" to better control the population surely is a bit counter productive?
I agree you don't need to kill anyone. But if the jab was going to kill anyone for control reasons, surely its better to kill the rebellious people rather than the "sheeple".

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/12/2023 14:32

Well yes, I don't get the vaccine thing either tbh... that is pretty illogical.

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/12/2023 14:34

The rebellious wouldn't get the jab obviously..... yeah, makes no sense.... not alot does these days....