Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Netflix’s Michelle and Barack Obama-produced movie “Leave the World Behind,” which is currently the most-watched film on the platform, is fomenting a lot of fear on the internet. The dystopian movie chronicles the Sanford family’s fight for survival in the wake of a cyberattack. The middle-aged mother, Amanda, father, Clay, and their 16-year-old son, Archie, and 13-year-old daughter, Rose, live in New York City but happen to be on a spontaneous holiday in Long Island for most of the film.
Throughout the film, the family encounters one horror after another as the fabric of the nation collapses around them. Viewers are in constant dread while watching the inept, urbanite family struggle to cope with each escalating disaster.
The Sanfords lose internet and power, and they witness an oil tanker grounds ashore before their eyes, planes falling out of the sky, drones dropping “Death to America” pamphlets, Tesla vehicles self-crashing into one another in a coordinated effort to block roadways, and bombs dropping on New York City.