“You never know when a time is the last time, because if you did you could never go on with life.” Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind is an apocalyptic movie that begins with a weekend you went on as a family without foreseeing that your life would suddenly turn upside down, and contains intense messages from the first minute. We see former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama in the production of this film, based on Rumaan Alam's novel published in 2020. The uncannily familiar scenario is filled with themes and messages you can tick off from beginning to end.

The majority of commentators agreed that this movie is an apocalyptic scenario and conspiracy theory. Although I agree with most of these, I want to look at it from a different perspective: Racism that never ends even when the apocalypse is near!

It annoyed me that this issue was trivialized and glossed over in the comments. How can we ignore the racism they present throughout the film, from the very first minutes, and how can we make it ordinary! This perception, which was created in the fetid depths of world history, continues to haunt human beings in this age, even while there is a frightening change and chaos going on outside. What a great heedlessness, what a vile arrogance!

Even as the world drifts towards an uncertain end, ego and arrogance never disappear. The writing in Alam's novel was quite pointed, but we can still get the same effect in the movie: racism and class anxiety. If you are obsessed with the color of the other person's skin even while the city from which you cannot return is being bombed outside, it means that there is a sick mentality here that is terrifying. But this perception of racism is not the first time humanity has encountered insanity. Many more like this have already been placed in minds and hearts. For those who haven't watched the movie, I can say this much; From the first scenes, the theme of racism is one of the main messages that deserves to be written in large font from the beginning to the end of the film.

Sam Esmail, the author and director of the film, presented everything in a slow, calm, and chilling way. It is a very concrete film about how the........

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