Review of Leave The World Behind

 

I had spent some time understanding why a highly respectable Ex. President & the revered First Lady, Mr. & Mrs. Obama, would produce this flick, KNOWING, that for all good & genuine reasons, will attract conspiracy theories, and in some cases, maybe ratifying them, that the World is governed by the CABAL of few individuals; and Leave The World Behind, is a metaphorical indication, that how the World in coming years would end. So far, I haven’t found an answer to this question! A contention given, that this was produced merely an Investment, is incomprehensible, as, why would a highly respectable Ex President, who had attended countless briefings from all sorts of Agencies around World, knowing about the World itself, with so much of Experience & Exposure; would produce this for the above reasons!

What has a beginning, has an end. Indeed! And, so goes for the World too. And if it’s natural, then that closes the loop, for another cycle of time to begin with. But sending subliminal & surreptitious messages, which are unnatural in its course, by highly respectable entities, is unfathomable.

Especially wherein few lines, ‘no hope’; ‘annual meeting with evil cabal who runs the world’; ‘the last one’ indicating either that the girl might be the only one surviving person in the apocalyptic bunker in the end (maybe in the World too), or, metaphorically representing the nostalgia she doesn’t want to come out despite knowing the World has changed for good outside; the girl telling the story that god sends help or indication about any coming anomaly, via something or someone else, & it’s us who decide whether to follow that signal or not, as she might’ve followed the deer; dependence on too much of Technology today and the need to unshackle from it ASAP; the eclipse scene; the radiation attack alike Havana Syndrome Situation; are some of the things matters as I’ve already explained in the commencing lines of the supra paras.

Based on the book by Rumaan Alam, the theme of the story is no different from the other apocalyptic scripts; albeit in this, there’re three phase attack happening to trigger either coup d'état or destruction of one nation only, or, to bring the entire World to an end, with the similar three phase attack; honestly, no idea! And this might’ve also been passed by me as a good entertainer had it not been produced by a two-time sitting highly respectable President.

And further, Amanda (Julia Roberts) was initially correct in resisting & not allowing at first place the unknown people in her house where she was vacationing, & that too before even the apocalypse has begun; as, everyone else would’ve done the same thing.

All said and done, it was a good watch. 😊

© Pranav Chaturvedi