Posted on 12/12/2023 11:40:32 AM PST by Red Badger
The Netflix film ‘Leave the World Behind,’ executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, has generated massive controversy and been criticized for dividing the American people around a line of dialog uttered by one of the leading characters stating that white people cannot be trusted. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the audience’s response to this objectively racist message has been resoundingly negative.
Without presenting a full synopsis of the film, ‘Leave the World Behind’ finds the viewer following a married couple portrayed by Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts, thrown together with a father and daughter played by Mahershala Ali and Myha’a Herrold in an unfolding apocalyptic setting. The unsettling dialog comes from Herrold’s character as the dust settles and the characters come to grips with the disaster.
As the father and daughter portrayed by Ali and Herrold huddle together to sleep the daughter tells her father,
“If the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone.” She then adds in a chilling moment of raw racism, “Especially white people.”
In a post to X, End Wokeness summarized, the film and questioned if it is “predictive programming,” meant to subconsciously prepare Americans for future events. They wrote, “Barack & Michelle Obama just produced their first fiction film on Netflix called: “Leave The World Behind” The plot is about a cyberattack that shuts down all the power & cripples the United States. (Predictive programming?) They even managed to sneak in a scene bashing white people”
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Space X, owner of X and multi-billionaire, offered an astonished reply, “Is this for real?”
Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok offered the opinion, “Netflix film called “Leave The World Behind” produced by the Obamas includes a scene demonizing white people. White people are the only group you’re allowed and celebrated to be racist towards and it will be put into movies by the most influential people.”
Attorney and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek in a post similar to End Wokeness, wrote, “‘Leave The World Behind’ is a new Netflix special produced by the Obamas about cyber attacks and a “global communications breakdown”. Watch this, then watch the video the WEF posted a few years ago warning about a future ‘cyber pandemic’ and tell me we’re not being programmed.”
Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, CEO of America Mission, shared a video of Roberts appearing on Jimmy Fallon Tonight in which the actress states that the book inspiring the film “was on President Obama’s reading list.” She added that “he and Sam collaborated with the notes in the beginning and the notes when we were done filming, in the post-production…”
The implication is that the former President would not only have been aware of the overtly racist messaging but potentially had a direct hand in it from conception to final execution.
Audiences have since responded very negatively to the film overall with it garnering a 38% Audience score with over 2,500 ratings as of December 12th compared to a 75% score from mainstream media film critics. Online criticism of its racist messaging has resounded throughout social media, following several conservative commentators’ objections.
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Don’t have Netflix, will never watch this movie.
But are people jumping the gun here? It’s a fictional movie, so maybe the character being portrayed here are blacks who have a distrust of white people. Don’t we need the context of what actually happens in the story to know if the story is actually advocating for it or not?
So....who calls his "wife"..Micheal...more than ONCE on film.
No dude I know would...
My wife's name is Megan.....I have never called her anything else.
Joan Rivers was right as rain.....
THIS MOVIE IS RATED”B.S”!!
I watched the movie the other day, didn’t know it was Obama film. Anyways, the ending sucked. Left you hanging. It was awful. Lot of negative press and angry viewers.
What else should we expect from a couple of racist black assholes like the Obama’s?
What was entertaining about it? Obama hisself couldn’t write a two sentence poem.
When the media critics like a movie more than the lefty libs who went to see it you know it’s a stinker!
That seems to be the standard reply for Musk lately. He used that exact same reply to Tucker Carlson's expose of Lloyd Austin's comment about sending our sons & daughters to Ukraine if we refused to send more money to Ukraine.
“Vlaardingerbroek” is Dutch for ‘freaking out’.
The More You Know!
If was too race-y for me. It started when the black owners of the house that the white family had rented for vacation showed up in the middle of the night and expected them to let them in and stay there (instead of going to a hotel), and the black daughter who oozed with ‘attitude’ made it clear she thought it was racist of them not to welcome them, complete strangers, into the house they had rented out to the white family. There was a lot more after that, but I stuck it out, then the ending was not much of an ending so I was sorry I had wasted my time.
Now I’m upset. When I first saw the title of the OBozo Movie, “Leave the World Behind” I was all excited because I thought that the Jug-Eared Monkey and Big Mike were abducted by aliens and gone forever.
Only later to find out it’s nothing more than a “hate whitey” movie.
FU Obama and Big Mike too!!!!
Raised by white grandparents, went to an elite private high school in Hawaii, then to elite universities and to Harvard Law School (none of which he would have been admitted to if he had been white undoubtedly...but we will never see his transcripts). So he thinks he is justified in hating white people.
Isn’t it strange the first black man elected to the US Presidency by racists white voters now exposes the real truth about them?
I get netflux free with my cell phone service and I still won’t watch that garbage. The Obama’s are evil to the core. Everything they touch is tainted by the stink of their evil.
From what I’ve read elsewhere, yes, it’s much ado about nothing.
One fictional character and one line in a movie.
Not everything needs a freak out.
“The implication is that the former President would not only have been aware of the overtly racist messaging but potentially had a direct hand in it from conception to final execution.”
Gee. Ya THINK?
0bama’s laughing all the way to the bank; they paid him either way.
That seems kind of juvenile, picking on someone who is new on FR.
Agreed. The daughter said something that is racist. That means that while the character may be racist, the movie is not necessarily racist.
I don't watch TV looking for hidden messages.
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