This article contains spoilers for “Leave the World Behind.”
This is their first fiction movie.
Particularly since the Obamas produced it, many took its apocalyptic premise as a warning.
Anotherwrote, “I’m no gone lie.
The movie slick spooked me though.
Especially since I remember they did that nation wide phone systems alert test a few years ago.
Esmail revealed that Barack Obama gave him feedback on the script.
“I am writing what I think is fiction, for the most part,” Esmail recalled.
“[…] But I’m exaggerating and dramatizing.
The fact that he said that scared the f*** out of me.”
One enraged user posted onXabout the scene, claiming that it was “demonizing white people.”
Others joined in, with oneraging, “I was absolutely disgusted seeing this.
Almost turned it off.
This is appalling.”
As one userasserted, “Wasn’t about them not being charged […] but going rogue.”
It was Netflix’s most-streamed film in its first two weeks of release with over 86 million views.
