#rumaan alam

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Rumaan Alam | © David A Land | Financial Times

[sesiondemadrugada]

Leave the World Behind (Sam Esmail, 2023).

[thechanelmuse]

Leave the World Behind

Have y'all seen that movie yet? Predictive programming 👀😵‍💫

I read the book by Rumaan Alam, which the movie is adapted from, in 2021. I was gonna do a brief comparative review of the film and book until I realized I 🤔...I don't remember the book that much and forgot to pen my thoughts about it at that time. Great 🙃.

I thought about rereading it, then halted. The two things I do remember:

1. How annoyed I was with the graphic descriptions of sex scenes and bodily fluids. Alam needs to not ever do that shit again. It doesn't drive the story but rather my patience. Let's act like it didn't happen.

2. An unsettling feeling and the thought-provoking suspense of the unknown. In books, like movies, an author has to show through actions and sensory details and not tell through through exposition. So even though I don't remember much, this book is mostly likely more fitting for the screen than the page because the unknown chaos is visual choreography that a novel can't match, all while sustaining an uncertainty and tension to keep you uneasy.

Although vague, I guess I just did a lil review. Boom lol.

[wealmostaneckbeard]

I want to like the movie "Leave The World Behind," directed by Sam Esmail, based on the novel by Rumaan Alam.

I do like the way that The Family at the center of the story is relatable but also unlikable. Instead of a plucky group of heroes who have impressive skills, we instead get a semi-dysfunctional group of people who don't know what to do in a crisis. The Family would fit right into a typical domestic drama that critiques modern society. And the movie plays along with that genre format until events subvert plot expectations.

SPOILERS:

My problem is that the entire movie (and I assume the novel) was really the prologue for a generic apocalypse/warfare/survival story... that we never get to see. And that's almost okay. Real life history is filled with people who missed a horrific disaster thanks to an arbitrary choice. It's good that LTWB uses the existence of these lucky people as the basis for the entire narrative.

But imagine a zombie apocalypse movie where the main characters go on vacation before the big outbreak hits their city. As a result they only see 2 or 3 zombies at a distance. Then the characters spend the rest of the movie just talking. That would make a terrible zombie movie but it would be subversive.

That's what I'm trying to say. In conclusion, Leave The World Behind is a terrible apocalypse movie that is brilliantly subversive, has a good cast of characters, and well done cinematography. In total, it is a mediocre-to-okay movie.

[goodjohnjr]

Leave The World Behind (Film)

Leave the World Behind (2023) What Is It? The 2023 Netflix American apocalyptic psychological thriller movie Leave The World Behind. Leave The World Behind | Official Teaser | Netflix Leave The World Behind | Final Trailer | Netflix This is how Netflix describes this movie: A family’s getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices — and…

[rickchung]

Leave the World Behind (dir. Sam Esmail).

Netflix's film adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 apocalyptic novel initially builds a more than serviceable paranoid psychological thriller in the vein of a classical stage play with few characters and a building mystery. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Myha'la Herrold as two families stranded together in a swanky remote vacation home just off Long Island, Esmail's tight direction enhances the dynamic performances. However, what ultimately comes of the film's tense end-of-the-world mystery never amounts to enough to entirely pay off the suspenseful rising action and impressive dramatic work.

[tinyreviews]

This reminds me of Take Shelter. Kinda same premise, vibes, structure.

Leave the World Behind is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by Sam Esmail. It is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film stars Julia Roberts (who also produced the film), Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, and Kevin Bacon.

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Shell Game

Author: Rumaan Alam

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, contemporary, thriller, mystery, suspense

Blurb: Mark has a wife and two kids, a sense of purpose, financial security, and a fragile contentment. However wistful his visions of the future, Mark knows who he is...but a summer trip with his abrasive brother-in-law and unhappy sister-in-law leaves Mark questioning everything he thinks he knows about his family and himself.

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A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?

Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.

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[judgingbooksbycovers]

Leave the World Behind: A Novel

By Rumaan Alam.

Design by Sara Wood.

[bloodmaarked]

➫ monthly book round-up: august 2024

books read: 8 [=] average rating: 3.75 [-6%] average speed: 13 days [+65%] total pages: 2,396 [-22%] yearly goal progress: 55/50 [110%] best of the month: crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky worst of the month: leave the world behind, rumaan alam

4.5* reads:

empireland: how imperialism has shaped modern britain, sathnam sanghera

water moon, samantha sotto yambao

crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky

the hound of the baskervilles, arthur conan doyle

3.5* reads:

family lore, elizabeth acevedo

the vanishing half, brit bennett

2.5* reads:

leave the world behind, rumaan alam

in search of the perfect peach: why flavour holds the answer to fixing our food system, franco fubini

currently reading:

an african history of africa, zeinab badawi

the muse, jessie burton

the body in the library, agatha christie

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Review: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam My rating: 4 of 5 stars I saw the movie a while ago. It did the book justice. I will have to watch it again now that I read the book. Well, I listened to the audiobook through Libby, the library app. I highly recommend both ways to enjoy this thrilling story. Here is the first part of the blurb about this book: “A magnetic novel about two families, strangers…

[screenzealots]

"Leave the World Behind"

Thematically, there certainly is a lot to chew on in “Leave the World Behind,” director Sam Esmail‘s adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s suspenseful, provocative New York Times bestselling novel. This is a case where the director is the ideal fit for the material, and the result is a complex apocalyptic thriller that tackles issues like isolation, liberalism, race, class, and family dynamics in a way…