Leave The World Behind Director Clarifies The Meaning Behind The Strange Deer

Screen Rant

By Dan Zinski

Published 2 days ago

Leave the World Behind director Sam Esmail clarifies the real meaning behind the Netflix disaster movie's mysteriously menacing deer herd.

Leave the World Behind is meant to be experienced as a dream turning into a nightmare, not analyzed logically.
The behavior of the deer herd is meant to represent nature's ominous warning that something is wrong.
The movie is not meant to be dissected and analyzed in a detached, logical way; it should be felt and experienced instead.