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re: Leave The World Behind on Netflix (Spoilers Pg. 2)
Posted on 12/20/23 at 6:31 pm to LSUFreek
Posted on 12/20/23 at 6:31 pm to LSUFreek
How long would the government wait until they stepped in if this happened? You have full chaos in the streets and eventually no food. A lot of people would die. I just think about New Orleans when Katrina happened. Nobody came to help for days and just that alone was a shitshow.
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Posted on 12/20/23 at 6:52 pm to Boodis Man
Friendly reminder that the Obamas allowed the black girl in this flick to have hairy armpits and made it very obvious for viewers.
Why would they do shite like this? I don’t understand it
Why would they do shite like this? I don’t understand it
Posted on 12/20/23 at 8:07 pm to Boodis Man
Why wouldnt that be allowed? It happens
Posted on 12/21/23 at 10:04 am to josh336
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Why wouldnt that be allowed? It happens
in france.
american girls shave their armpits
Posted on 12/21/23 at 10:48 pm to BabyTac
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Watched last night. I laughed a bit at the ending. It kept my interest the whole time and thought it was entertaining enough.
Would have rather seen it as a series to see a continuation. I didn’t pay much attention to the race stuff so it didn’t really bother me. Overall tho, isn’t that realistic of the characters? A college aged entitled black female throwing it around? I rich Karen feeling guilt? I didn’t let it ruin the movie for me.
I could have wrote this myself. Wow. Identical thoughts.
My wife for a good 5 minutes was a good wtf about the ending. She wanted a lot more resolution. My biggest lingering thought was what in the frick was with the deer? It added a supernatural element that just didn't fit at all with anything else. Even the blip about migration patterns had nothing to do with the deer's inexplicable behavior.
Overall I enjoyed it.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 11:10 pm to TigerFanatic99
At least the family can stop hearing the daughter bitch about not seeing the end of the Friends series!
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:57 pm to Byrdybyrd05
The Spanish lady demonstrates the need to assimilate and learn the language of the country.
Raises the concern about self driving cars gone wild.
Deer picked the wrong time to hold a family reunion.
Don’t pull all your teeth out unless a neighbor has meds for what ails ya.
Beaches seem to be no go zones.
Whiskey and weed is the answer in race relations.
Raises the concern about self driving cars gone wild.
Deer picked the wrong time to hold a family reunion.
Don’t pull all your teeth out unless a neighbor has meds for what ails ya.
Beaches seem to be no go zones.
Whiskey and weed is the answer in race relations.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 10:34 pm to LSUFreek
Watched tonight based on some of recs from this board. Don’t waste your time. Seriously.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 12:36 am to SeafoodPlatter
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they worked in white ppl are bad
This is a false characterization of what happened.
They never said “white people are bad”.
The daughter was saying they shouldn’t trust people…”especially white people”. Her father didn’t agree with her, as demonstrated through his actions.
The movie clearly portrayed her bias as being wrong. The entire movie made that point.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 12:50 am to LanierSpots
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Then what was the point of that minute or two? If race was not a issue, what was the point of putting it in there for a minute
I’d say the point of it was that the father knew what was up with the “world ending”, and the ignorant daughter was hung up on some nonsense like race.
And to say “race was in there for a minute or two” is wrong. It’s literally ONE line where the daughter is talking about not trusting “other” people, and says “especially white people”.
As shown by the scene when they were leaving Kevin Bacon’s, the dad GH told Hawke’s character that the third part of the plan was simply to sit back and let folks turn on each other.
If the writers/director/producers of the film wanted to “make it all about race”, they certainly had plenty of opportunities. Heck, Ali could have said “are you questioning this is my house because I’m black” during that scene, but didn’t. As others mentioned, they could have thrown a confederate flag up around Bacon. They didn’t.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 1:22 am to LSUFreek
Overall, I thought this was an “ok” movie. Not quite “good”, but far from terrible.
The movie intentionally left things vague and only gave out bits and pieces of information to try to “help the audience feel the same sense of confusion as the characters”.
Again- why did the oil tanker run aground? Why did the planes crash…and in the same spots? Why were the animals acting so strangely — I’ll say that was an easy one, because of all the old legends/wives tales about animals perceiving danger that people turn to when they don’t know the answer! Why did the kid lose his teeth was it lime disease or something else? Whose behind the attacks?
The movie intentionally didn’t fully address those questions. I mean, think of it like “High Plains Drifter” where they never come out and tell you whether or not Clint Eastwood is the old sheriff, a ghost or what. Or heck, maybe even “inception” where they jump around and confuse the heck out of you and at the end you’re not sure if the guy is still in a dream. This movie just didn’t do that as good as those did.
Spoilers-
I too thought the ending was a little too quick, but again, we’re left with the idea that Julia Roberts and the girl know that the younger girl went to the house (the found the bike tracks, and the bikes outside) and that Ali and Hawke know that particular house has a bunker. So we expect everyone to wind up there eventually.
The “plot” of this movie seemed to be whether or not these two families were going to come together and help each other, or turn on each other. Ali and Hawk showed they were going to help each other by getting the son medicine, then Ali flat out asked him “I need to know you’re with me”. The scene of Roberts going back to save rhe daughter and then working to scream the deer away in tandem conveyed the same thing.
Fwiw, I did hate the initial vulgar them song. While the scenes between Ali/Roberts and the Daughter/Hawke did help drive the plot, they went on to long and adding the sexual subtext was unnecessary.
The movie intentionally left things vague and only gave out bits and pieces of information to try to “help the audience feel the same sense of confusion as the characters”.
Again- why did the oil tanker run aground? Why did the planes crash…and in the same spots? Why were the animals acting so strangely — I’ll say that was an easy one, because of all the old legends/wives tales about animals perceiving danger that people turn to when they don’t know the answer! Why did the kid lose his teeth was it lime disease or something else? Whose behind the attacks?
The movie intentionally didn’t fully address those questions. I mean, think of it like “High Plains Drifter” where they never come out and tell you whether or not Clint Eastwood is the old sheriff, a ghost or what. Or heck, maybe even “inception” where they jump around and confuse the heck out of you and at the end you’re not sure if the guy is still in a dream. This movie just didn’t do that as good as those did.
Spoilers-
I too thought the ending was a little too quick, but again, we’re left with the idea that Julia Roberts and the girl know that the younger girl went to the house (the found the bike tracks, and the bikes outside) and that Ali and Hawke know that particular house has a bunker. So we expect everyone to wind up there eventually.
The “plot” of this movie seemed to be whether or not these two families were going to come together and help each other, or turn on each other. Ali and Hawk showed they were going to help each other by getting the son medicine, then Ali flat out asked him “I need to know you’re with me”. The scene of Roberts going back to save rhe daughter and then working to scream the deer away in tandem conveyed the same thing.
Fwiw, I did hate the initial vulgar them song. While the scenes between Ali/Roberts and the Daughter/Hawke did help drive the plot, they went on to long and adding the sexual subtext was unnecessary.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 9:24 am to Lieutenant Dan
The racial issue was very subtle and
not openly discussed. It actually made sense in context. It didn’t harm the movie unless you’re a complete snowflake.
not openly discussed. It actually made sense in context. It didn’t harm the movie unless you’re a complete snowflake.
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Posted on 12/26/23 at 9:40 am to VOR
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The racial issue was very subtle and
not openly discussed. It actually made sense in context. It didn’t harm the movie unless you’re a complete snowflake
I mean the black girl was openly racist. "When things get bad you shouldn't trust people. Especially white people"
Posted on 12/26/23 at 10:53 am to VOR
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The racial issue was very subtle and
not openly discussed. It actually made sense in context. It didn’t harm the movie unless you’re a complete snowflake.
Completely agree. People are coming into the movie with pre-conceived biases because of the Obama angle. They are looking for something blow up.
There wasn't anything in the movie, socially, that wasn't based in reality. The "wokeness level" could have been a WHOLE lot worse. Subtle racism like the white woman showed is real, and it is everywhere in the circles she would have come from. The overtly racist black chick was also real as frick.
People are just uncomfortable recognizing that yes, racism is still real
Posted on 12/26/23 at 11:59 am to TigerFanatic99
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Subtle racism like the white woman showed is real, and it is everywhere in the circles she would have come from.
is it though? Lady lives in freakin' Brooklyn. And that wasn't exactly soft racism
I didn't really have much of a problem with the race angle of the movie, besides rolling my eyes a few times.
Movie still kind of sucked though.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 1:03 pm to TigerFanatic99
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Subtle racism like the white woman showed is real, and it is everywhere in the circles she would have come from. The overtly racist black chick was also real as frick.
I am going to disagree that the white woman was “racist”, subtle or otherwise. GH appeared in the middle of the night claiming it was his house. She was rightfully skeptical of his story because of the circumstances.
The opportunity was certainly there for GH, or especially the daughter, to make the allegation.
The daughter’s quip when she brought up not trusting people “especially white people” obviously was racist.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 4:55 pm to lsusa
I just saw a YouTube video of how the whole movie is based on slavery. The boat White Lion that came on shore was the boat that brought the first slaves to America. The radio station in the car that worked for a few seconds was on station 1619 that was the year slaves arrived. G.H. and his daughter had to sleep in the basement of the house as slaves slept at the bottom of the ship. G.H. and his daughter Ruth last name is Scott and the white family last name was Sandford. They said it was Dred Scott v Sandford case that Sanford won in court that Dred Scott was not an American citizen and that is what led to the civil war. At the end of the movie G.H. brings up last stage was civil war.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 6:27 pm to Byrdybyrd05
quote:Dude, race was barely in this.
I just saw a YouTube video of how the whole movie is based on slavery. The boat White Lion that came on shore was the boat that brought the first slaves to America. The radio station in the car that worked for a few seconds was on station 1619 that was the year slaves arrived. G.H. and his daughter had to sleep in the basement of the house as slaves slept at the bottom of the ship. G.H. and his daughter Ruth last name is Scott and the white family last name was Sandford. They said it was Dred Scott v Sandford case that Sanford won in court that Dred Scott was not an American citizen and that is what led to the civil war. At the end of the movie G.H. brings up last stage was civil war.
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There wasn't anything in the movie, socially, that wasn't based in reality.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 10:51 pm to Byrdybyrd05
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I just saw a YouTube video of how the whole movie is based on slavery. The boat White Lion that came on shore was the boat that brought the first slaves to America. The radio station in the car that worked for a few seconds was on station 1619 that was the year slaves arrived. G.H. and his daughter had to sleep in the basement of the house as slaves slept at the bottom of the ship. G.H. and his daughter Ruth last name is Scott and the white family last name was Sandford. They said it was Dred Scott v Sandford case that Sanford won in court that Dred Scott was not an American citizen and that is what led to the civil war. At the end of the movie G.H. brings up last stage was civil war.
There are apparently other “Easter eggs”
Involving the number 76 as they get off on exit 76 and there is a blue 76ers mug the guy drinks out of, some connection to a video game fallout 76, the neighbors name is Huxley as in Brave New World, there are references to some company in the directors other works, and so on.
Folks are welcome to have any opinion they want, but the notion “the whole movie is based on slavery” doesn’t really jibe with what happens in the movie.
If anything, I think the point of the movie was more along the lines of “we need to put aside our differences,
Including racial, and work together”
When push came to shove in the movie, Ali’s character helped the “white”
son instead of staying with his own daughter. Julia Robert’s stopped her search for her own daughter, to save the “black” girl from the deer.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 12:41 am to lsusa
You are correct. I meant to say it had a lot of references to slavery in the movie. I like how they played the Friends theme song at the end when it said “So no one told you life was going to be this way” with how their lives will be chaotic going forward after their normal world was turned upside down. The same way we all complained about how the movie didn’t give us the ending we wanted and how we wanted to see how everything played out, we are acting the same way the little girl who wanted to know how the last episode of Friends ended.
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