Leave the world behind is the film that is currently taking Netflix by storm. Its open ending is one of the most intriguing, as the plot raises a number of questions about people and their way of life in excessive productivity and social separation. So the Collider outlet decided to reach out directly Director of the Netflix film, Sam Esmail, on the message he wanted to convey when I tell this story.
The first thing you understand in Leave the World Behind is that Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke are a couple with children who will be spending the holidays in a rented house. He is surprised when the owners of the place, played by Mahershala Ali and Myha'la Herrold, appear at night and ask for accommodation since they had no contact with the outside world and needed a place to sleep. Furthermore, the explanation for his visit is due to an apparent technical blockage.
The true story behind “Leave the World Behind,” the paranoia-inducing Julia Roberts film
One of the strangest themes in the film is the image of a herd of deer. First, the animals appear through the house's bushes and the vacationing couple's youngest daughter is curious and surprised by this unusual presence.
Later in the film, Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Ruth (Myha'la Herrold) experience the fear of possibly being attacked by a herd of deer. The first, who had a negative and racist attitude towards the second, attacks the deer with desperate cries to stop it from attacking her young companion. And he achieves it.
“I wanted this film to feel like a dream slowly turning into a nightmare,” the director told Collider.
“This is the experience I wanted to give the audience and nothing stood in my way. So I think that if people try to reconstruct the film in a purely logical and objective way, it won't work, and honestly I don't think it works for most films. “A film needs to be felt and experienced, not necessarily thought that way,” he added.
The truth is Director of Leave the world behind It's not about giving so many logical explanations about the presence of animals and the unexpected events in their history.because this “works like a feeling, like a sound, and is not intended as an essay in which every plot point is noted with logic and references.”
In general, the presence of the servants in the midst of technological catastrophe (goodbye Internet, cell phones and satellites) and the hypothesis of an apocalypse It serves to create fear and make the audience think about the presence of these animals in the film..
“(The deer) represents nature’s ominous warning that something is wrong and we are not listening,” he said.