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Leave the World Behind <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Sam Esmail<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Sam Esmail<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>based on the novel LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Julia Roberts<\/strong>, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la <\/strong>and Kevin Bacon<\/strong>. Tagline:\u00a0 There’s No Going Back to Normal<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Amanda (Roberts) and Clay Sanford (Hawke) rent a modern isolated house away from the city for a spur of the moment vacation with their two children.\u00a0 As the weekend progresses strange things happen.\u00a0 They lose internet access.\u00a0 Several deer wander onto the property and just stand still.\u00a0 At the beach an oil tanker loses control and runs ashore as beachgoers scramble for safety.\u00a0 That evening the wifi is still out and television channels are off the air.<\/p>\n Later that night, Amanda and Clay are awakened by two well dressed strangers.\u00a0 The man claims to be George H. Scott (Ali).\u00a0 He says that the young woman with him is his daughter, Ruth (Myha’la).\u00a0 George says that the house is his and a blackout in the city is the reason for their return home.\u00a0 Ruth immediately distrusts them.\u00a0 George cannot prove who he is. He claims to have lost his wallet.\u00a0 His wife, Ruth’s mother is due back from a business trip later that day.\u00a0 George is not asking Amanda and her family to leave. He just wants to stay with Ruth in his own home.\u00a0 Despite reservations, the two families agree to share the house.<\/p>\n The next day, they learn that the United States is under some sort of attack.\u00a0 Planes are crashing.\u00a0 GPS and electronics no longer work.\u00a0 The emergency alert system warns that the US is at war.\u00a0 Their worst fears have become reality.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Leave the World<\/em> Behind reminded me of a M. Night Shyamalan movie written by Rod Serling.\u00a0 In other words, I loved it. It was well written, well directed and well acted.\u00a0 Sam Esmail who adapted the screenplay and directed made interesting choices that helped build tension as strange things began happening.\u00a0 Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la and Kevin Bacon are excellent.\u00a0 I think this may be the first movie where I didn’t care for a Julia Roberts character.<\/p>\n I like movies that make me think, “What would I do”. Once Leave the World Behind<\/em> kicks in, I did that a lot.\u00a0 There were no easy answers since no one was sure what was going on.\u00a0 I’ve seen a few bad reviews and they’re unanimously because the movie doesn’t wrap things up with a definitive answer.\u00a0 That’s one of the things I enjoyed about it.\u00a0 So, as always, but with this one a little more, your mileage could vary.<\/p>\n Leave the World Behind <\/strong><\/em>(2023) earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Leave the World Behind (2023) Director:\u00a0 Sam Esmail Screenplay: Sam Esmail\u00a0based on the novel LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34852,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions\/34852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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