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Tom Bedford

Leave The World Behind ending explained: why did the world end?

A still from Leave The World Behind on Netflix.

If you've watched the new Netflix thriller Leave The World Behind, you'll know that the two-and-a-half hour slow-burner doesn't end on a distinct resolution. The fate of the world is left in an ambiguous state, but we'll help you to understand the ending.

Leave The World Behind focuses on a family staying in a rental house, as the world begins to fall apart after blackouts and infrastructures breaking, and to top it all off the man they're renting from wants to stay in the property with his daughter.

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