The World After Us on Netflix: Did the scene with the animals in the forest seem weird? The director explains everything

The World After Us is the Netflix movie everyone is talking about right now. This apocalyptic thriller with Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali will tear up subscribers With its open ending and its multiple possible interpretations.

It must be said that its director, Sam Esmail, who already owes us the excellent series Mr. Robot, likes to play with his audience. Even though he’s adapting an award-winning novel, he’s enjoyed including some weird and sometimes absurd scenes in his film, which has left some subscribers wary. And among them, with deer and in the forest.

We are in the last third of the film. While Ally and Hawkeye’s characters go to visit Kevin Bacon to treat the radioactivity in the air, Amanda and Ruth go to find Rose. As they go deeper into the woods, GH’s daughter ends up face to face with a group of deer and does.

The tension is palpable: why do animals react this way? What do you want? Are two women in danger? You have to hope for your mother’s peace that they are gone. But this scene is not for nothing, especially since it is edited in parallel, where we see Kevin Bacon threatening Mahershala Ali with a gun… and vice versa.

We asked the question directly to the director of the film:

“Unlike the Tesla scene, the deer scene is in the books. This is the passage that really struck me. When I start working on a film, the most important thing for me is not the script or the logic, but the tone. I see the world after us as a nightmare. This scene should be taken as a warning: there is something sinister in the herd of deer staring right at you. It works perfectly with the rest of the film.

We can also say that this scene is the ecological result of the ecological disaster that is currently taking place. A cyber attack could affect animal migration. Nature warns us that something is happening. And instead of listening, we prefer to use technology to save us when it has already abandoned us. It’s really a mix of all of these. But, above all, I wanted to emphasize the fact that the characters live in a real nightmare.

A veritable treatise on our relationship with technology and the world around us, The World After Us can also be considered an ode to nature and ecology.