never-never land

"It laid bare how incompatible it was to have intelligence services operating in a secret constitutional never-never land and allowed them to become publicly accountable."

Calling the “audit” an “adventure in never-never land,” Sellers continued: “There was no fraud, there wasn’t an injection of ballots from Asia nor was there a satellite that beamed votes into our election equipment.”

“The board has real work to do and little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land,” he said.

So they’re selling cinema on the promise of familiarity, as a never-never land where nothing has really changed and there’s no global catastrophe to reckon with — except for the fictional ones on screen, of course.

While it’s eventually seen that some of the kids have mobile phones, Taormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land.