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LEILA FADEL, HOST: There's a new psychological thriller on Netflix today, and here's how it starts. A white family leaves New York City for a short vacation - mother, father, two kids. They rent a gorgeous house near the beach. Suddenly, the cable goes out and their smartphones - no information coming in, going out. Then in the middle of the night, a Black father and daughter come to the door. They say it's their house, and they want to stay there.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND")JULIA ROBERTS: (As Amanda Sandford) This really doesn't seem like their house. I don't know. It just all feels like a con to me. And they want to stay here with us? Forget it. I wouldn't be able to sleep with strangers in the house. Rose is right down the hall. What if he sneaks in? I don't want to think about it.FADEL: That's Julia Roberts playing a quintessential Karen in the new film "Leave The World Behind." How these people navigate each other while the outside world seems to be under attack drives the tension. Mahershala Ali plays the wealthy, debonair homeowner, G.H. Scott, and Ethan Hawke plays Julia Roberts' spineless husband, Clay.ETHAN HAWKE: What's always so interesting about reading history is the people that experience these traumatic events - they just don't have all the information. They don't know that it's the beginning of World War II. They don't know it's September 11. And so when we look back, we said, how come they didn't do this, or how come they didn't do that? It's 'cause they didn't know. They just thought it was Tuesday, you know?MAHERSHALA ALI: There's just something terrifying in just really sitting with the unknown and not having enough information and sort of guessing at what is out there. And so I think those things sort of add something to the energy and the dynamic.FADEL: To give listeners some perspective here, I mean, it starts, as you say, Ethan, nobody knows what's going on. And then late at night, two people come to the door. And, Mahershala, that's your character, G.H. Scott...ALI: Yeah.FADEL: ...And his daughter.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND")ALI: (As G.H. Scott) I understand how strange this must be for you, us turning up like this, unannounced. We'd have called, you see, but the phones are out.ROBERTS: (As Amanda Sandford) Yeah. My phone doesn't seem to have service.MYHA'LA HERROLD: (As Ruth Scott) It's almost as if we're telling the truth.FADEL: You navigate it so differently than your character's daughter.ALI: Right.FADEL: If you could talk about that generational divide here, as you realize you have to live in this house with this family in what could be an end-of-the-world scenario.ALI: Wow. Having been partially raised by my grandparents, she would tell me, be very conscious of speaking out about things. Like, she would drill it into me...FADEL: Yeah.ALI: ...Because she had so much fear around her own experiences. So looking at Myha'la and her sort of age group, there's just a different approach to how they operate in the world. The things that we were sort of accepting of - there just was not going to be a Black president, so don't ever expect that.FADEL: Yeah.ALI: Myha'la is of the generation where Barack Obama's president.FADEL: Yeah.ALI: So there's a whole different set of expectations. And I'm very appreciative of this generation for their unwillingness to sort of bite their tongue.FADEL: So you have these two families coexisting in this one house, suspicious of each other, and things are going really wrong outside - oil tankers running ashore, planes falling out of the sky. I mean, you start to watch the characters reveal themselves in times of crisis, right? And there's a scene, Ethan, where you're driving out, trying to, I think, go to the store. You're in the middle of nowhere, panicked, and you roll down your window, and there's a woman there, begging for help - only speaks Spanish.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND")UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, speaking Spanish).HAWKE: (As Clay Sandford) OK, I don't understand what you're saying. I don't speak - I don't speak Spanish.FADEL: And you seem kind of paralyzed, but you ultimately roll up your window and drive away.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND")UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, speaking Spanish).HAWKE: (As Clay Sandford) Sorry.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, speaking Spanish).HAWKE: I remember when I got the script, and I got to that scene, and I was like, I'm not doing this movie. It upset me so much.FADEL: Yeah.HAWKE: You know, the metaphor of the affluent white American male who really thinks he's a great person - and Clay really believes he's a good heart, and I believe he does have a good heart. But the fear overtakes him, and he's not the person he wants to be, and he drives by somebody less fortunate and prioritizes his own family and his own life. That's when the movie's working at its finest, I think, is...FADEL: Yeah.HAWKE: ...Is, you know, we all live - there's fault lines, you know, and America has terrible, terrible fault lines. And in periods of crisis, those fault lines get exposed.FADEL: I mean, not to make this about me, but I've covered a lot of conflict, and I recognize all of it in the way that people turn into the biggest monsters or the biggest heroes. In these...ALI: Yeah.FADEL: ...Moments, you have to make choices about how to survive, how to live.HAWKE: Crisis reveals character, right?FADEL: Yeah. The director of the film, Sam Esmail - he also brought us "Mr. Robot," and that series, this film, they have a shared worldview, technology being at the center and our reliance on technology. And, Ethan, your character - I never related more than this moment. I'm going to play this clip.HAWKE: Oh.(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND")HAWKE: (As Clay Sandford) I have no idea what I am supposed to do right now. I can barely do anything without my cell phone and my GPS. I am a useless man.ALI: So well played.HAWKE: (Laughter).ALI: So - yeah, yes.FADEL: I lost my phone once, and I didn't leave the house. Is there a bigger commentary here though? I mean, is it also a commentary on how much we don't know how to do now that we depend on tech for everything?ALI: Yeah, we kind of live in a prison of convenience. You know, I think...FADEL: Yeah.ALI: ...The more convenient things have gotten for us, the more - I don't want to say the dumber we become, but there's skill sets that just begin to atrophy. We were - I think Ethan and I and everybody - we were talking about phone numbers the other day, at least, and I remember thinking, like, I know one number. I know my wife's phone number at this point.HAWKE: It's a little bit of a wake-up call just to remind you not to be asleep. You know, there's a lot of ways in which all of us can help be a part of a solution, and there's ways that we can bury our head in the sand.ALI: I do think our technology has put us to sleep. It's shrinking us as people. And one of the blessings of that technology is that we are more connected...FADEL: Yeah.ALI: ...That the world is smaller. And so there is an opportunity for us to be on the same page with certain things, however hard that might be. But I do believe that the film is very much a wake-up call around our relationship with technology and just our relationship to humanity and then how we treat one another.FADEL: That's Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, two of the stars of the new film, "Leave The World Behind," and you can find that on Netflix. Thank you so much, both of you.ALI: Thank you.HAWKE: All right.(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
Black Mirror is considered by many reviewers to be one of the best television series of the 2010s, while some critics have found the morality of the series obvious or cite declining quality. The programme won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie three times consecutively for "San Junipero", "USS Callister" and Bandersnatch. Black Mirror, along with American Horror Story and Inside No. 9, has been credited with reviving the anthology television format, and a number of episodes have been deemed prescient by the media.
The series was originally commissioned by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and premiered in December 2011. A second series ran during February 2013. In September 2015, Netflix purchased the programme, commissioning a series of 12 episodes later divided into two series of six episodes.[1] The first six episodes were released simultaneously on Netflix worldwide as the overall third series on 21 October 2016. The fourth series of six episodes was released on 29 December 2017.[2] A fifth series consisting of three episodes was released on 5 June 2019.[3] The first four series, as well as the special "White Christmas", have been released on DVD.[4] A sixth series was commissioned in 2022 and was released on 15 June 2023.[5][6][7] A seventh series was announced in November 2023 with filming expected to start by the end of the year.[8]
As Black Mirror is an anthology series, each episode is standalone and can be watched in any order.[9] The programme is an instance of speculative fiction within science fiction: the majority of episodes are set in dystopian near-futures with novel technologies that exaggerate a trait from contemporary culture, often the internet.[10][11][12] An example is "Crocodile", where the Recaller device used to view a person's memories is the main difference from the modern world.[10] Many such technologies involve altering the human body or consciousness, with little in-universe concern for the morality of these actions.[11] They provide convenience or freedom to the user, but exacerbate problematic personality traits.[11][12] Adrian Martin of Screen wrote that many episodes depict "basic human emotions and desires" that "intersect with, and get twisted by, a technological system that invariably spins out of control and into catastrophe".[10] Retrofuturistic designs highlight the theme of each episode, often showing a lack of comfort, emotional connection or personalisation;[13] the settings are generally patriarchal and capitalist.[14] Recurring themes throughout Black Mirror include data privacy and surveillance, virtual reality, individualism and consumerism.[10][11] Many episodes have plot twists.[15][16]
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