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sesiondemadrugada · 4 months

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Leave the World Behind (Sam Esmail, 2023).

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thechanelmuse · 4 months

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Leave the World Behind

Have y'all seen that movie yet? Predictive programming 👀😵‍💫

I read the book by Rumaan Alam, which the movie is adapted from, in 2021. I was gonna do a brief comparative review of the film and book until I realized I 🤔...I don't remember the book that much and forgot to pen my thoughts about it at that time. Great 🙃.

I thought about rereading it, then halted. The two things I do remember:

1. How annoyed I was with the graphic descriptions of sex scenes and bodily fluids. Alam needs to not ever do that shit again. It doesn't drive the story but rather my patience. Let's act like it didn't happen.

2. An unsettling feeling and the thought-provoking suspense of the unknown. In books, like movies, an author has to show through actions and sensory details and not tell through through exposition. So even though I don't remember much, this book is mostly likely more fitting for the screen than the page because the unknown chaos is visual choreography that a novel can't match, all while sustaining an uncertainty and tension to keep you uneasy.

Although vague, I guess I just did a lil review. Boom lol.

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deathbecomesthem · 4 months

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I've started listening to the Leave the World Behind audiobook, and the writing is incredible. Rumaan Alam is going to be one of those authors for me - I'll read everything he's published. The movie was middling, but I'm telling you - the source material is outstanding.

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wealmostaneckbeard · 3 months

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I want to like the movie "Leave The World Behind," directed by Sam Esmail, based on the novel by Rumaan Alam.

I do like the way that The Family at the center of the story is relatable but also unlikable. Instead of a plucky group of heroes who have impressive skills, we instead get a semi-dysfunctional group of people who don't know what to do in a crisis. The Family would fit right into a typical domestic drama that critiques modern society. And the movie plays along with that genre format until events subvert plot expectations.

SPOILERS:

My problem is that the entire movie (and I assume the novel) was really the prologue for a generic apocalypse/warfare/survival story... that we never get to see. And that's almost okay. Real life history is filled with people who missed a horrific disaster thanks to an arbitrary choice. It's good that LTWB uses the existence of these lucky people as the basis for the entire narrative.

But imagine a zombie apocalypse movie where the main characters go on vacation before the big outbreak hits their city. As a result they only see 2 or 3 zombies at a distance. Then the characters spend the rest of the movie just talking. That would make a terrible zombie movie but it would be subversive.

That's what I'm trying to say. In conclusion, Leave The World Behind is a terrible apocalypse movie that is brilliantly subversive, has a good cast of characters, and well done cinematography. In total, it is a mediocre-to-okay movie.

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goodjohnjr · 4 months

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Leave The World Behind (Film)

Leave the World Behind (2023) What Is It? The 2023 Netflix American apocalyptic psychological thriller movie Leave The World Behind. Leave The World Behind | Official Teaser | Netflix Leave The World Behind | Final Trailer | Netflix This is how Netflix describes this movie: A family’s getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices — and…

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rickchung · 5 months

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Leave the World Behind (dir. Sam Esmail).

Netflix's film adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 apocalyptic novel initially builds a more than serviceable paranoid psychological thriller in the vein of a classical stage play with few characters and a building mystery. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Myha'la Herrold as two families stranded together in a swanky remote vacation home just off Long Island, Esmail's tight direction enhances the dynamic performances. However, what ultimately comes of the film's tense end-of-the-world mystery never amounts to enough to entirely pay off the suspenseful rising action and impressive dramatic work.

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tinyreviews · 5 months

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This reminds me of Take Shelter. Kinda same premise, vibes, structure.

Leave the World Behind is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by Sam Esmail. It is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film stars Julia Roberts (who also produced the film), Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, and Kevin Bacon.

#leave the world behind #apocalypse #psychological #thriller #rumaan alam #julia roberts #mahershala ali #ethan hawke #myha la #kevin bacon #2023 #movie review

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kammartinez · 3 months

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screenzealots · 4 months

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"Leave the World Behind"

Thematically, there certainly is a lot to chew on in “Leave the World Behind,” director Sam Esmail‘s adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s suspenseful, provocative New York Times bestselling novel. This is a case where the director is the ideal fit for the material, and the result is a complex apocalyptic thriller that tackles issues like isolation, liberalism, race, class, and family dynamics in a way…

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#Charlie Evans #Ethan Hawke #Farrah Mackenzie #Julia Roberts #Mahershala Ali #Myha&039;la #Rumaan Alam #Sam Esmail

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drackiszunk · 4 months

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My mom and I watched Leave the World Behind the other day. I started the book yesterday and finished it today.

I have so many questions. 91st book of 2023!!

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kamreadsandrecs · 4 months

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thatwritererinoriordan · 4 months

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milliondollarbaby87 · 4 months

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Leave the World Behind (2023) Review

When a family looking to enjoy a rather luxurious getaway takes a very strange turn when a cyberattack seems to have stopped all devices from working and two strangers claiming to own the house turn up late at night at the door. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ***POST CONTAINS POTENTIAL SPOILERS*** Continue reading Untitled

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agentnico · 5 months

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Leave the World Behind (2023) Review

Guess that's one way to make me dislike Friends more.

Plot: A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a blackout. As the threat grows, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.

So much wasted potential. A long drawn-out slow shuffle to Nowheresville. A movie that offers so many ideas, plot points, and thread lines that are never answered or go anywhere:

Why is there the random static noise throughout the film and where is it coming from?

The deers and flamingos congregating at the property are simply explained as "the animals know something we don't" and then there's no further explanation or follow-up about that.

Is Mahershala Ali's character's wife dead? Probably, but who cares?? Instead, let's have him and Julia Roberts have an awkward drunk dance scene where the two come close to cheating on their respective spouses because that makes sense! Oh, and Ethan Hawke's character may be a nonce!

Why are the son's teeth suddenly falling out? There's a reference to an insect biting him, so does that mean there's a mysterious plague spreading? Possibly, but we don't deserve to know apparently.

A random shot of the US flag on the moon overlooking Earth as it covers the sun to cause an eclipse is a lovely visual trick, but what's the point of it? Are they suggesting an alien invasion??

Why are Teslas without drivers crashing into one another? Actually no - that doesn't surprise me. Just so you know, that checks out.

I could go on. I'm all for a movie being mysterious and not giving us all the answers. Just look at any David Lynch project - the man's an enigma! But even with Twin Peaks and such Lynch at least provides enough depth and reason to the worlds he creates that all the weird stuff fits in well. In Leave the World Behind things are truly happening under the motto "just because" and "why the hell not" and it makes the viewing experience immensely frustrating. Especially when the movie is nearly 2 and a half hours long and the anticlimactic abrupt ending is a slap to your face for wasting your time.

The performances are alright. You have a trio of 1980s icon stars - Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon - and naturally, they play their parts as you'd expect them to even if Bacon is heavily under-used and Roberts' line delivery in certain dramatic moments was over-the-top and borderline hysterical. Mahershala Ali lives and breathes Academy Award-worthy performances. He delivers every note of his dialogue with such a methodic approach that the guy could appear in any true stinker and still stand tall and proud. So of course he's great and probably carries most of the heavyweight acting here. Myha'la Herrold is given one characteristic of being constantly pissed off, so that works out as she does a solid resting b**ch face.

Visually director Sam Esmail does some funky camera work, with a particularly well-executed sequence when Roberts first walks into their holiday house, and as she's exploring and going up the staircase the camera twists and pans over her very smoothly. Another moment involves a drone chasing Hawke's character as he's driving away while it spills red leaflets everywhere, reminiscent of the alien from Jordan Peele's Nope. Again, the production design and aesthetic of the film are done well, even if it is at times amateur. Netlfix evidently did not chicken run from the budget. However, narratively the movie tries to portray so many different messages that it ends up failing to explore even one. Neither fitting in as a black comedy nor a clever social thriller, this truly may be the most irritating film of the year. Leave this movie behind.

Overall score: 3/10

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floorman3 · 5 months

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Leave the World Behind Review- A Post-Apocalyptic Film That Turns Political

There have been a lot of movies over the years that have had a theme of the world is about to end. Even Netflix, which is the streaming home of Leave the World Bhind has had its fair share of these types of films. Does Bird Box or its sequel Bird Box Barcelona ring and bells? Bird Box had Sandra Bullock at its center as the starring actor. This film has a lot more star power than that film had…

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#Charlie Evans #Ethan Hawke #Farrah MacKenzie #Julia Roberts #Kevin Bacon #Leave the World Behind #Mahershala Ali #Mayhew Herrold #Netflix #Rumaan Alam #Sam Esmail

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shafershouse · 6 months

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Books Read: 2020

January

The Chestnut Man (Søren Sveistrop)

February

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (JK Rowling)

reread

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)

reread

March

The Haunting of Ashburn House (Darcy Coates)

April

White Rose Black Forest (Eoin Dempsey)

May

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Nicholas Kirstof & Sheryl WuDunn)

The Holdout (Graham Moore)

The Glittering Hour (Iona Grey)

Educated (Tara Westover)

June

July

August

September

The Alienist (Caleb Carr)

Dear Edward (Ann Napolitano)

October

Things in Jars (Jess Kidd)

Leave The World Behind (Rumaan Alam)

Long Bright River (Liz Moore)

The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

November

December

The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)

Throne of Glass #1 (Sarah J. Maas)

This Tender Land (William Kent Krueger)

This Close To Okay (Leesa Cross-Smith)

The Office of Historical Corrections (Danielle Evans)

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