We just finished watching Leave the World Behind (the #1 movie on Netflix!) and it was all right, except for the nausea-inducing cinematography (you’d have to watch it to see what I mean, but trust me). I was struck, and a bit alarmed, and the many themes in the movie which are identical to those I wrote about in my Solid State book, including
- The confusion that takes place when networked devices stop working;
- The advantages rural citizens have versus the poor souls in urban areas;
- Potential mayhem caused by self-driving cars;
- The ease of accusations about which foreign enemies may be the bad guys;
- And, one so obscure that I was shocked, a specific scene in which the protagonist refuses to give a terrified middle-aged woman a ride, even though she’s pleading
I just want to be clear that I wrote ALL this stuff, including my recent revisions, before I saw this thing! Oh, by the way, the ending to the movie sucks out loud. It’s incredibly bad.
