What does the film Leave the World Behind tell us?
What are we being prepped for?
Sandra Bullock’s 2018 Christmas holiday hit film Bird Box got our heads around being scared of each other (just looking at people could kill you), that it was a good idea to have stock plenty of water, food and loo roll and that we’d have to spend a lot of time indoors in our own homes for our own safety.
And that we’d have to wear masks to go out.
In this year’s holiday hit Leave the World Behind an attack of radiation, noise and computer hacking causes tankers and planes to crash into beaches and the internet to go out causing mass civil disturbance and breakdown. Kevin Bacon tells us the that all the countries the US has pissed off, such as Russia, Iran and Korea, have got together to destroy it. Even the Empire can be self knowing.
Doomer Bacon has some pills that are implied can cure radiation poisoning and can grow back teeth, but the saviour and biggest product placement by far is a $3 million, 15 story bunker.
And the fact that the owner stocked up on DVDs. The world may be attacking and destroying America and everything going to hell, but it’s OK, ‘Friends’, right? We can stay down there for years.
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I watched it, until the end, with great difficulty. What an insult to my intelligence. I felt like I wasted two hours of my life. Taibbi and Kirn’s analysis was spot on.
I liked the movie. One thing it got right for sure is that young adults that are know it alls or are jerks to their little sister are the worst.
Taibbi and Kirn did a review where they go after it for its messaging and mock the Obamas for loving the story so much they decided to produce the movie. But as a horror movie I liked it. I think its ok to compartmentalize my politics enough to enjoy a movie.