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Rumaan Alam | © David A Land | Financial Times

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Leave the World Behind (Sam Esmail, 2023).

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Justice League International #9 (1988) by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis & Kevin Maguire

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Leave the World Behind

Have y'all seen that movie yet? Predictive programming 👀😵‍💫

I read the book by Rumaan Alam, which the movie is adapted from, in 2021. I was gonna do a brief comparative review of the film and book until I realized I 🤔...I don't remember the book that much and forgot to pen my thoughts about it at that time. Great 🙃.

I thought about rereading it, then halted. The two things I do remember:

1. How annoyed I was with the graphic descriptions of sex scenes and bodily fluids. Alam needs to not ever do that shit again. It doesn't drive the story but rather my patience. Let's act like it didn't happen.

2. An unsettling feeling and the thought-provoking suspense of the unknown. In books, like movies, an author has to show through actions and sensory details and not tell through through exposition. So even though I don't remember much, this book is mostly likely more fitting for the screen than the page because the unknown chaos is visual choreography that a novel can't match, all while sustaining an uncertainty and tension to keep you uneasy.

Although vague, I guess I just did a lil review. Boom lol.

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“squeal”

Val Semeiks- John Ostrander

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A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter. But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?

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Leave The World Behind: My New Thoughts on it

I finished reading Rumaan Alam's novel Leave the World Behind and I think it's subtextual premise is this:

What if the the Christian Bible was as accurate in it's depiction of the End of Days as it was about the Beginning of Creation? Which is to say, right on a few details but wrong about everything else.

For example:

Rose the sinless daughter gets "raptured," but not really she just abandons the group to break into an unoccupied bomb shelter stocked with supplies where she binge watches dvds. That's basically heaven, in the short term. Archie the first born son dies, but not really he just gets Lyme disease and might die or maybe not. It depends if he can get medical treatment.

I believe this novel is meant to be a contrasting parody of the Christian apocalypse series, Left Behind, and it's lack of ambiguity. I've read enough summaries about that bloated saga of theocratic far-right propaganda to think I'm right.

Sam Esmail's cinematic adaptation of LTWB eschews the veiled critique of Christianity and instead targets another beloved fantasy of the far right: military invasion of the USA by a foreign nation.

In the original Red Dawn, it's explicitly stated that Mexican communist revolutionaries backed by the Russian military have invaded the southern border. They have seized control of numerous towns and cities and have forced residents into prison camps. Thus it's up to a plucky group of high schoolers to fight for Ronald Reagan's America.

In LTWB, there is no marauding red army destroying America, because there doesn't have to be. America is already teetering on the brink of collapse, our infrastructure is weak, our public discourse toxic. Anyone with sufficient resources, ranging from the Islamic Republic of Iran to aliens from outer space, could make the nation fall into chaos. It doesn't who the attackers are, economic and social policies implemented by conservative politicians have made our nation weak in order to fund tax cuts for wealthy elites who will abandon everyone when the end comes.

This terrifying indictment of America by Sam Esmail elevates his movie above it's source material, in my opinion. He's not afraid to make people afraid, something that Rumaan Alam was apparently reluctant to do lest he become like the fear mongerers he was parodying. Or at least that's what I imagine.

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Leave The World Behind (Film)

Leave the World Behind (2023) What Is It? The 2023 Netflix American apocalyptic psychological thriller movie Leave The World Behind. Leave The World Behind | Official Teaser | Netflix Leave The World Behind | Final Trailer | Netflix This is how Netflix describes this movie: A family’s getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices — and…

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Leave the World Behind (dir. Sam Esmail).

Netflix's film adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 apocalyptic novel initially builds a more than serviceable paranoid psychological thriller in the vein of a classical stage play with few characters and a building mystery. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Myha'la Herrold as two families stranded together in a swanky remote vacation home just off Long Island, Esmail's tight direction enhances the dynamic performances. However, what ultimately comes of the film's tense end-of-the-world mystery never amounts to enough to entirely pay off the suspenseful rising action and impressive dramatic work.

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This reminds me of Take Shelter. Kinda same premise, vibes, structure.

Leave the World Behind is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by Sam Esmail. It is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film stars Julia Roberts (who also produced the film), Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, and Kevin Bacon.

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George knowing his third wheel status and begrudgingly accepting it

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➫ monthly book round-up: august 2024

books read: 8 [=] average rating: 3.75 [-6%] average speed: 13 days [+65%] total pages: 2,396 [-22%] yearly goal progress: 55/50 [110%] best of the month: crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky worst of the month: leave the world behind, rumaan alam

4.5* reads:

empireland: how imperialism has shaped modern britain, sathnam sanghera

water moon, samantha sotto yambao

crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky

the hound of the baskervilles, arthur conan doyle

3.5* reads:

family lore, elizabeth acevedo

the vanishing half, brit bennett

2.5* reads:

leave the world behind, rumaan alam

in search of the perfect peach: why flavour holds the answer to fixing our food system, franco fubini

currently reading:

an african history of africa, zeinab badawi

the muse, jessie burton

the body in the library, agatha christie

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Justice League #3 (1987) by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis & Kevin Maguire

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Review: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam My rating: 4 of 5 stars I saw the movie a while ago. It did the book justice. I will have to watch it again now that I read the book. Well, I listened to the audiobook through Libby, the library app. I highly recommend both ways to enjoy this thrilling story. Here is the first part of the blurb about this book: “A magnetic novel about two families, strangers…