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Leave the world behind - Netflix

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Bundtbake · 08/12/2023 14:46

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

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thatone · 17/12/2023 08:44

I enjoyed it. I think the boy's teeth fell out because he had been bitten by something. When he was with the parents in the morning in their bed and she said he felt cooler I thought he had died.

BadSkiingMum · 17/12/2023 10:11

Showmethesunny · 12/12/2023 22:43

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

not sure memorising numbers will be helpful in the apocalypse. There won’t be mobile phone networks etc 🫤

Yes, but in a less serious emergency (not total annihilation!) I can pick up any phone and dial key people in my life rather than being all, ‘Oh no, where’s my contacts list?!’ 😁

Changingplace · 18/12/2023 21:00

I watched it at the weekend, I read the book a while ago and absolutely loved it.

In the book, I think the isolation and disorientation they feel from being cut off from phones/tv/internet and our over reliance on being able to get answers to anything very quickly comes across more.

None of the odd things that happen, the boys teeth falling out, the explosions or even exactly what has or hasn’t happened in the city aren’t explained.

If the world or civilisation as we know it was ending for whatever reason that’s what would happen, there would be no definitive answers, would you trust?

I think the book gets all this across better, I’d definitely recommend it.

Changingplace · 18/12/2023 21:09

MercanDede · 12/12/2023 22:01

No. The stupid dummy premise was the use of sonic and microwave weapons.

The scene of a the sonic weapon going off and the flamingos flying away from the heated pool at night- stupid stupid. Sonic weapons stun birds. If they are midflight, they drop out of the sky and if they fall far enough it kills them. The Flamingos would have been stunned and drowned in the pool.

Julia Roberts wouldn’t be running through the woods during a sonic blast either and then at the end hear “hey mommy” and hold a conversation. You are completely incapacitated, writhing in agony and if it went on as long as the film showed, you would be unconscious and wake up with temporary deafness and permanent hearing loss.

Microwave weapons would cook birds and they’d all drop dead whether mid flight or on the ground, in a tree in around 4-5 seconds. Humans- our heads explode and we die 8 seconds for a child, 11 seconds for an adult.

Magnetic fields, those are EMP weapons and they affect IT not humans or annimals…unless you have a pacemaker.

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No, the premise (in the original book) is that nobody actually knows what or why any of it is happening.

So it’s not that any of it is ‘wrong’ as such, more that the vast majority of people would be completely unable to know what should or shouldn’t be happening without being spoon-fed by media (which also may or may not be factual)

Crushed23 · 24/12/2023 21:02

I really liked this film.

Julia Roberts is outstanding. Even the cringey dance scene is perfection - she nails how you would expect her character to dance. And the way the dance evolved into a dialogue with CH was flawless.

Crushed23 · 24/12/2023 21:10

*GH?

CormorantStrikesBack · 24/12/2023 21:22

Crushed23 · 24/12/2023 21:10

*GH?

The name of the single dad, whose house it was. I think I’ve remembered that right.

Crushed23 · 24/12/2023 21:31

Rogue ‘?’, I was correcting my post where I called him ‘CH’!

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