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The disaster movie is a tried-and-true cinematic genre, from the sublime (Titanic, Gravity) to the, well, disastrous (Geostorm, Meteor). But what they all have in common is that the cause of the cataclysm is never in doubt – usually it's in the title. This is definitively not the case in Leave the World Behind, Sam Esmail's adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 bestseller in which society as we know it crumbles with an unsettling question mark.
‘That fear of the unknown was something that really excited me,’ Esmail) tells . ‘In this story, we never tell you, really, what the disaster is. It's a mystery. It's ambiguous. It's something that the characters have to debate over and analyse. Even towards the end, you're still not quite sure what's happening.’
