While cinemagoers are rushing to see the likes of Wonka and some of us stay at home to rewatch festive favourites, others are lapping up a new streaming release.
Leave the World Behind landed on Netflix in the UK on Friday (8 December) and has received rather mixed reviews.
But while viewers debate the controversial ending, others have made a ‘scary realisation’ after discovering a hidden message.
Starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon, the film logline reads: “A family’s vacation is upended when two strangers arrive at night, seeking refuge from a cyberattack that grows more terrifying by the minute, forcing everyone to come to terms with their places in a collapsing world.”
And viewers reckon the film makes a comment on our own take on the world.
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Heads up, there will be spoilers ahead.
In the viral TikTok, a user calls it ‘lowkey scary when you actually pay attention to what’s happening’.
During one scene a pile-up of Tesla Model 3 cars block the characters’ exit route as a catastrophic tech blackout erupts.
Turns out the self-driving cars have been hacked to block the road and mow down anyone who gets in their way, and the user says they ‘don’t f**k with them’.
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The scene even managed to get the attention of Elon Musk, as some felt the film was calling out Tesla.
Others commented to point out what they think is the ‘real message’ of the film.
So, basically, at the end of the movie, mum Amanda is out looking for her daughter Rose, who has gone missing.
In the final scene, Rose finds a neighbour's bunker and picks up a DVD of the final season of Friends and as that familiar theme song kicks in, the film credits roll.
Rose has spent the entire movie devastated that the apocalyptic mayhem has prevented her from watching the final Friends episode - so it's a definite win for her, but some fans reckon it has deeper symbolic meaning.
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One fan wrote: “Movie is scary with how it matches real time. People say the ending is us, seeking comfort in TV and entertainment while the world crumbles.”
Another user added that the ending sends a message about us finding ‘distraction in entertainment’ while the world ‘crumbles’ around us.
They added: “Keep us distracted by entertainment etc, then when you take away what distracts us from really understanding situations and ppl around us the world would more than likely crumble. And we wouldn’t know how to survive without the distractions they’ve given us.
“Something crazy happens in the world we’re all talking about it one minute then the next we move on.”
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However others just call the film ‘weird’ while some claim it’s a lesson about Tesla and that it's telling us ‘don’t buy electric’.
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, Conspiracy Theory
Jess Battison