Leave The World Behind on Netflix (Spoilers Pg. 2)

Same, good movie half way in.

I see a lot of people disliking how it ended, if you didn’t see that ending coming from a mile away, you are blind.

I liked it. I liked how you never really knew if Mahershala Ali was telling the whole truth or hiding something, I like the tension that is built along the way. The acting was really good, props to Julia Roberts, who had to act like a lunatic in front of nothing during that CGI deer scene.

The only thing that I didn’t really like was the Kevin Bacon information dump to basically tell you what was happening. I would’ve liked to leave that ambiguous building to the big panning up reveal of the city in shambles

So have you finished it? What’s the 2nd half review?

It’s terrible.

I didn't like it and I'm the most lenient film watcher ever. It just didn't connect as apocalyptic. I could say more but won't spoil.

Just finished the movie

Amazing setup

Dogshit, lazy ending

Absolute waste of time, wouldn’t reccomend this to anyone. It’s a piece of shite movie.

And yes, I get all the social messages this movie preaches. It still fricking sucks

It was terrible. Julia Roberts dancing? The whole "oh the animals are trying to tell us something " was stupid. Don't waste your time on this turd.

Watched it last night. I enjoyed it even though it felt like it missed a chance to be a much better movie. It builds up like there is gong to be a big payoff and you just don’t get it. And there’s some other lazy shite along the way.

One of the few movies I’ve watched in a while where I didn’t have it figured out a third of the way through. Wasn’t a big fan of the ending but overall, a good movie.

It’s a brilliant movie if you’re capable of being honest with yourself. Race was just a tiny part of it. It’s about how easy it is to make somebody else an other . It’s a critique of all of us who refuse to listen to the other side, who just retreat to our respective corners, put our fingers in our ears, and shout out how wrong the other side is. The louder side wins. But nobody really wins. And the “enemy” understands us better than we understand ourselves and just waits. We’ll eventually turn on ourselves.

It’s weird because the people who hate this movie seem to be, to me, the same people who think it would turn out just like this. Whatever.

I thought the Kevin Bacon character was close to being a caricature, but I thought they made a smart choice to have an American flag hanging on his house when other films would have had a Confederate flag. That would have been cheap. And he finally gave in to the barter system, which is what we hope we happen, as opposed to simple selfish murder. And I think they did a good job of juxtaposing his character with the unseen owner of the house at the ending. Whoever owned and built that was just as (justifiably) paranoid as “right wing” Bacon while being just as “left wing elite” opposite. At the end of the day, we are all just people. Do people just suck or are we there for each other?

The ending was both brilliant and heavy-handed. “I’ll be there for you.” Will you? Will I? Will we work together? Or just look out for ourselves? I’m not sure. The “enemy” bet on one side. I’m not sure I’d bet on the other. But the ambiguity of the ending was perfect. We don’t need a sequel or a series. We need to find the answer to the question ourselves. But I’m not sure we’d like the answer. People may just suck.