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

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t did something different and actually made you think about the characters and their environment.

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The characters were a cliched joke and simply a tool to cram social propaganda into the story, which also sucked.

And the "environment" was an even bigger joke. They set the movie in some remote location with wide open spaces, woods, wild deer and the nearest neighbor is "three miles down the road". OK, plenty of places like that in the expansive US. But then the in the final scene we see a clear view of the Manhattan skyline that would have come from the perspective of Queens or Staten Island. Give me a break. You can't view a city collapse from the wilderness, especially in New York. I guess they just assumed people would think Long Island is a remote rural hideaway for the rich instead of a place where 8 million people are crammed into an area the size of Rhode Island.