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Leave the World Behind (2023)
You won't like it only if you don't get it
I literally had the lowest expectations for this movie, because one of my colleagues saw it on the first week out on Netflix,so i kept postponing seeing it.
I thought the movie was fascinating and horrifying at the same time. After seeing the executive producers in the beginning, i was "okay,this will be interesting".
The movie is full of symbolisms or this is how I got it. The little girl representing all children this age, that have been raised near TV or computer screens and are obsessed with technology. They see the end coming (i believe the ship is a symbolism for the beginning of the end), but they can only stare at it and do nothing about it. If it wasn't for Julia Roberts to tell them all to move on the beach, they would be the first to go.
The son, represents all teens, not many interests, other than their will for gratification, in whatever way. Moves towards an unknown forest, without much thought,does not cover his ears properly right away,in general indifferent.
The daughter that is near her 20s or more grasps what is coming and the only thing they agree with Julia is that the previous generation has fckd up the world big time.
I think the deer scene, with the deers staring at their eyes, has this purpose exactly, to show that due to human errors they have been forced to leave their home forest and soon they will not have anywhere to go, because as we see forests are burnt,or made into large cities,hence the footage to show how small the forest is in front of the big city.
Ethan is pretty much a man depending on his wife and when it comes to saving his son, the only counter offer he can propose is money, because the man is the one that makes the money and usually does little else inside a home (patriarch family or not). Ali is the one trying to help all at the end. He is the one that sees the plane crash and i believe chosen to be black,since black people have witnessed and suffered much until the recent past.
The key is that he decides to get past that and team up with the family, because he is the most emotional one of them all (listens to jazz,hugs Julia,misses his wife,makes promises he can't keep,tries to convince to get the medicine).
To sum up,it is a great movie to let you think, building up steadily and carefully.
Wars, isolation after covid and AI taking over the next years are the current biggest problems.
What next?
Knives Out (2019)
Much in common with Lackberg's book
I just saw the movie and I liked it a lot! I couldn't help but wonder though,during the whole film, which book reminded me and it was actually one of Camilla Lackberg's. Anyone else had same thought? Anyway, movie was far better than that book in this case, bravo!