Leave the world behind - Netflix

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Just watched this, really enjoying it - then it just finished! Very disappointing ending..... 🤔

Just finished it and couldn't believe that was the ending!

What was the relevance of the lady speaking Spanish that he wouldn't help when he was driving?

I saw on another thread that she was trying to tell him that the plane had crashed on the beach. Why on earth didn’t he open the door and bring her back to the house where someone might have spoken Spanish?

But how wet and useless was the husband! Clay, quite literally. The only useful thing he did was filling the bath.

Having said that, the extent of their helplessness without technology was somewhat depressing. I do find it helpful to memorise key phone numbers (I dial manually rather than use a shortcut) and I often use a hand-drawn map to help directions stick in my mind.

The snippet of news broadcast said the cyberattack had interfered with magnetic fields which was affecting animal migration so I guess the deer?

I enjoyed it. They would have all ended up in the bunker. How boring for them though.

I felt it was to highlight the segregation in society in times of crisis. He recognised the lady was in distress, but she spoke a different language which added to the confusion and isolation, so he opted to leave her. The ‘look after your own’ theme that runs through the film and that Kevin Bacons character talks about.

I was disappointed too.
We kept saying throughout the whole film it's going to have a bad ending!
Thought there were a lot of holes in the story but main one being who would spend a fortune on a bunker room and make it so easily accessible to anyone? A little bit of broken glass on the front door to get into a house that cost a fortune and owned by someone paranoid/prepared enough to build a bunker. Then the bunker door isn't even hidden behind a bookcase and it's not locked!
As for the ending - they were all heading to the bunker so would have all got there although I'm not sure why Kevin Bacon wouldn't have gone there instead.

We concluded that the daughter's behaviour reinforced the message that fundamentally, humans are shitty and selfish ane consumed by media, not real life.

The daughter's first thought in an apocalypse was to watch Friends, not for the safety of her own family. She'd also wandered off without a thought for their worry, and the family themselves were - in my opinion - under-reacting to her being missing as well, caring more about the son.

I really really enjoyed it, and got a lot of shivers from it. Unlike many, I thought the ending excellent.

Is that the whole point of the movie, in a real attack like that you don't have information, you only get bits of it. Why would you trust some women on the road when you sonf understand them its how a lot of people would react leaving her there.

The ending just proves how we just run back to things like entertainment as a form of escape and ignore whats going on around us.

I think its quite thought provoking in that sense. Good movie

One of the points of the Spanish woman was also to show how poorly we cope when we lack information, no Google Translate etc. He knew something was terribly wrong but not what. So he just didn't engage with it.

The movie was not supposed to be realistic, it was meant to provoke thought about various themes by telling/showing a story in an obviously highly stylised way (eg see the changing picture on the wall and all the weird camera angles). I found it very effective in that. Scary though.

We kept saying throughout the whole film it's going to have a bad ending!
I mean, no shit, Sherlock! It was never going to be a good ending!

How? I mean, I'm a wuss with this kind of stuff but nothing shivery for me.

One of the worst, most boring, pointless films I've ever seen. Like a worse Don't Look Up (and that was awful too).

There's so much more they could have done with the premise. I haven't read the book but could imagine it being quite terrifying in print.

On screen though, not one relationship was even vaguely believable, so there was no chance for us, the viewers, to see ourselves in the characters (there should always be an Everyman type character). So we (well, I, literally didn't care about them or their fate.

Julia Robert's character was grim, glum & angry, with a weird over-exaggeration about everything. We never saw her & Ethan Hawke's relationship before the disaster so there was no shift or investment.

The son's teeth falling out should have been a key dramatic moment, but again, it seemed pointless, and I literally didn't care.

Truly awful movie.

I really didn’t enjoy it (probably due to the ending) I’ve never read the book so can’t pass comment on that… had I known the film ending (which I know you can’t without watching 😂) I wouldn’t have bothered x

I thought the point of it was a kind of warning/subliminal messaging to show the dangers of misinformation as it’s one of the biggest threats.

At the end when the 2 men were in the car and he was explaining the most cost effective way to take down a country, the first step was isolation and misinformation (the leaflets in Arabic and Korean etc) I thought that moment was to show how easily it could happen and how quickly society would break down.

Thatz the whole point why do you need a movie to explain everything why so you need to know their life beforehand.

You start the movie as though you are experiencing as they are...something has happened, there is lack of information. So why would it explain everything and tir it all up ina neat bow.

In real life this is probably as close as to how it will be. Does it matter id you know if she went back tovfrt her family, we find out the city is under attack and civil war is the last stage.... of the attack. Its pretty much told you.

Putting my tin foil hat on it was just seeding internet/power outage being the fault of foreign countries. Not like the wef have predicted cyber "covid" or anything, like event 201 which ran a simulation of a corona virus in 2019.

Tin foil hat off. It was a bit crap, dull and ridiculous.

Why did you need to know anything about the relationship before? It wasn't about their marriage.

why do you need a movie to explain everything why so you need to know their life beforehand.

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Not what I said. You need to understand the characters, their lives etc so you can empathise with them. They need to be relatable. None of these odd people were.

So why would it explain everything and tir it all up ina neat bow.

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What I said was the opposite of this. Did you read my post at all?!

civil war is the last stage.... of the attack. Its pretty much told you.

We didn't see civil war. It was a nuclear attack - we saw it at the end when the two women stared across at NYC.

Did you watch the movie?!

Why did you need to know anything about the relationship before? It wasn't about their marriage.

As I said 🤦🏻‍♀️ because to empathise with characters we have to relate to them, understand them, typically. It's why the horror trope often works in the context of a normal suburban family setting ... and then something awful happens. It's the suggestion that it could happen to us too.

You may have enjoyed the film anyway - great. But the idea of relatable characters is usually movie-making 101.

@EarringsandLipstick I loved Don't Look Up too! Good job we are all different, right!

I didn't see the nuclear attack. Civil war ie tearing their own society apart was what was described.

I usually read reviews on IMDb before watching a movie and it was a mix of very low and very high so I guess that’s on here too

I’m on the it was great side, but I didn’t like Don’t Look Up