Review: Obama-Produced Netflix Movie Can’t Decide How Much It Hates White People (VIDEO)

Netflix’s Leave the World Behind has a white people problem. The Wi-fi is out but that’s not it. The Tesla is acting funny, but also nope. The movie can’t decide how much it hates white people.

Sometimes, it’s a little, and sometimes, it’s a whole lot, like when Julia Roberts goes full Karen on the black family that shows up unannounced at the doorstep. Or when husband Ethan Hawke abandons a distraught Latina housekeeper on the roadside. Mostly, this apocalyptic thriller spends more than two hours trying to be artfully “ambiguous” about its Whiteness Studies specimens as the world comes crashing down around them.

The plot can be summarized as: White people problems become the problem with white people. Profound stuff. This is the kind of movie that lefty white Brooklyn-ites think they deserve and feel obligated to love — the former because they are self-loathing and the latter because the movie was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.

In searching for material to turn into their first fiction feature for Netflix, the former first couple landed on a novel that ticks all the boxes of brand 44. Gay Bangladeshi-American author Rumaan Alam’s book is a thinly veiled Trump-era allegory that is set in 2019 and imagines an unspecified apocalyptic event that threatens humanity and sends an unnamed president scurrying into a bunker for safety.

But the end of the world is a giant red herring for the movie’s (and the Obamas’) central preoccupation — race.

The Obamas are two of the most influential people on the planet. Politics aside, you have to agree that their potential power to create good in the world is monumental.

That's why seeing that power used to promote racial hatred is deeply disappointing. pic.twitter.com/HpCuyVlgbI

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 11, 2023

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