Beware the Netflix Julia Roberts film Leave the World Behind - SPOILER

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if you don't want to spend 2 hours plus and not get a satisfactory ending...GRRRR!

That ending.

My immediate reaction was NOOOOO! It can't end like THAT. No No No No No

It was described on Netflix as apocalyptic which is what drew me to it.

I know that it doesn’t magically reverse it. I live in a place where our Government give them to people under a certain age to keep at home.

I think the point is that like you say they didn’t know. It’s the uncertainity that is the true nightmare. They didn’t really know what to do or what was happening. Without our phones we are lost it appears. Archie’s teeth falling out is just to symbolize how our worst nightmare comes true, which is exactly what the film is about I guess.

Yes that’s very well put.
It’s the lack of information that is the nightmare.

Yes I mean what would people do, it would be awful, no information

They were unbelievably lucky though in an area with big house next to one with a bunker

At first I thought the ending with the Friends song I’ll be there for you was meh, but then again that was also what the film was about, that if we’re turning against each other instead of being there for each other we literally won’t survive.

If you stopped me in the street I’d most likely have bugger all to prove who I was. I don’t carry any ID really.

Please can someone explain the deer and the flamingo 😩

God it was a load of shit wasn't it.

Yes I love this too!

Felt pretty unsatisfied with the ending but I really enjoyed it! I first thought GH and his daughter weren't really the owners they were gunna rob and screw with the family renting the house so it kept me guessing throught the film. Also thought it was gunna be aliens at one point! I was entertained anyway so the film did its job for me

It is descibed as an "apocalyptic thriller" in the press release from Netlfix:

"In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot), Amanda (Academy Award winner Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. (Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Myha’la) — arrive in the night, bearing news of a mysterious cyberattack and seeking refuge in the house they claim is theirs. The two families reckon with a looming disaster that grows more terrifying by the minute, forcing everyone to come to terms with their places in a collapsing world.
Produced By: Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton, Julia Roberts, Lisa Gillan, Marisa Yeres Gill
Executive Producers: Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam, Barack and Michelle Obama"

Something can be apocalyptic and also commentary about current and recent events simultaneously - which is part of why it is so unnerving/terrifying.

For me, the word 'discombobulating' sums it up. You just didn't know what was coming next, and it was full of shocking moments.

Whoever mentioned the teeth falling out in relation to 'worst nightmare' is spot on. It's the most common anxiety dream.

I thought it was very surreal - and I think that was the point.

The bunker was vacant I imagine because the owners were in the city. But able to access? I can only imagine because the cyber attack messed with the locks?

This thread has also enlightened me on some extra things I hadn't thought of.

Of course it’s apocalyptic. The end of society is really rather apocalyptic.

He got a tick so presumed it was Lyme disease.

I enjoyed the film.

They could have easily lopped an hour off it. And the beginning and the end and all the rest of it now I think of it.

Animals use the earth's magnetic fields to navigate , the fact everything went bonkers made their navigation systems go tits up too .

I really liked it . I'm having a second watch

navigation systems had all gone down , that's why ships were grounding and planes were falling out of the sky .

Without trying to sound like a wanky film student but with some professional
experience of filmmaking and literature, I’d say It was more sophisticated than your average apocalypse movie. It was much more a comment on society than anything else. It was pretty deep with a lot of metaphorical stuff which I think probably went over a few people’s heads including the ending. Wankfest over

Yes. So so bad.

I completely agree. It was a comment on society and perceptions of people without labouring the point.

It seems that some people wanted there to be a baddy or a monster but there isn’t. That’s not how it works.

Look at the news today. Russia took down some mobile networks in Ukraine. Ukraine mobile network Kyivstar hit by 'cyber-attack' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67691222

As they said in the film, all it would take would be for all the countries that dislike America to decide to get together and they could cause something like the events shown in the film.

@MadeOfAllWork

I've no issue with the premise, and I agree.

I just thought the quality of the film-making, the script & the characterisation was truly terrible. And with such a good cast. A shame.

I thought it really good . Subtle .

You're all wrong, I've just finished it and thought it was excellent. But then, I loved the book as well.