I Just Watched Netflix's new "Leave the World Behind" & the Scariest Thing About it is:

On December 8 Netflix released a new movie starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and several other wonderful actors and actresses I didn't recognize, aside from a small role by Kevin Bacon. The film was suggested to me by a friend who said the cause of the global problem in the movie was unclear and could be a pole shift - as there were ships and planes crashing from navigation problems, GPS was down, and a flock of flamingos visited their Long Island swimming pool. While those few elements might be explained by the crust of the planet moving over its interior, it was pretty clear not too far into the movie that the main problem for the characters was a cyberattack shutting down most technology (cell phones, internet, TV, radio, navigation....) But several other nonsensical elements kept appearing; such as including a tick-borne disease that progresses incredibly fast, an unexplained and unrealistic dangerous noise that has no cause, and strange animal behavior including a scene with deer reminiscent of Hitchcock's The Birds.