Posted on 12/06/2023 3:17:31 PM PST by simpson96
The film “Leave the World Behind” centers on the idea of mistrust and how easy it is for humans to lose empathy for one another when faced with a crisis. It is at once unnerving, misanthropic and bleak, and, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, it’s produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.
Set to become available on Netflix on Friday, it is one of three films from Higher Ground that will be released within a month of one another on the streaming service. The others are “Rustin,” a biopic about a gay civil-rights-era activist, Bayard Rustin, and “American Symphony,” a documentary tracking the relationship between the musician Jon Batiste and his partner, Suleika Jaouad. Together, the films provide the best evidence of the five-year-old company’s attempts to evolve from an earnest, feel-good brand to one that is more complex and focused primarily on good storytelling centered on, Mr. Obama said, people who are dealing with “the tensions that are in our society.”
“It’s taken a while for us to remind our team at Higher Ground, as well as the creative community in Hollywood, that this isn’t like Masterpiece Theatre — not everything we do has to fit on PBS,” Mr. Obama said in a phone interview. “We are known to watch other things.”
Those familiar with Mr. Obama’s lists of his favorite books, movies and TV shows know that his interests are varied. (When he named Amazon’s raunchy superhero show “The Boys” as one of his favorites in 2020, it shocked the show’s creator and its fans.)
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I think I remember this plot....but it was called Lord of the Flies
He’s such an incredible phony. Doesn’t care about any of this stuff just pushes it. Kind of like Trudeau.
Higher Ground. What arrogance. Like a Kenyan coke snorting gay fraud has the standing to look down on anyone.
I'm sure.
Obeyme is one of the worst specimens our species has to offer.
Hmmm....”dealing with the tensions in our society...” so sayeth the Kenyan. Seems to me the only tensions created with normal Americans in the last 15 years are the perverted ones he generated with his anti-Western civilization marxist policies and his cabal of fellow travelers. Recovery will be long and painful, if the Republic survives. “Fundamental change....” I’ll say. The US Constitution and the Bible be damned.
Another failure for Netflix.
If Americans wanted to be lectured to, we would just watch CNN or PMSNBC.
Filth and garbage. 🤮💩
Yes, what he and Big Mike need are free helicopter rides.
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The gay biopic seems to be right up his alley so to speak.
He has found his part in the W W circle. Movies can sell a lot of things.....like complacency while the whole world walks in your door and takes over your house.
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