What was the point of this being the bleakest, most hopeless apocalypse setting ever AND having that totally unearned Deus Ex Machina fairytale ending?
What was the point of this being the bleakest...
It's pretty heavily implied, at least in the film, that kid was gonna get eaten after following the stranger
A bleak ending is the perfect formula for people never watching your movies ever again.
The kid ABSOLUTELY gets eaten.
People can barely keep themselves fed in the setting without resorting to cannibalism so what are they feeding that dog???
I bet they kept the dog to win people's trust.
its called book adaptation retard
umm actuahlally dog symbolized that they had enough food
in the book it's implied that the man at the end is one of the "good guys"
In the book it's concrete that the kid lives, in the movie, not so much.
This guy I met in college invited me over and we watched this movie and I remember thinking to myself wow, this movie sucked, all it did was depress the shit out of me with nothing on the side. Literally depressing for the sake of being depressing.
McCarthy sure liked writing misery porn
Literally depressing for the sake of being depressing.
The purpose of art is to evoke feelings and it achieved that
See
This guy I met in college invited me over and we watched this movie
ewww faggot
druckman to ripped this and the walking dead telltale games off
Bet you rather jumped on his cock, right?
Well I hated it, it felt like the sole purpose of making it was to bum people out without any silver lining to it
I first thought that but then I read the book, and he survives with the people well into the future and then the book ends. The movie is truly bleak and extremely depressing because it's an ultra realistic horrific look at the end of the world. I think it's because most apocalypse scenarios still have canned food, supplies, farm animals, crops as humanity rebuilds, but the world of the road is basically established as "there's no more animals, there's no more food, and the plants are all dying.
Correct, Rajesh. That's a reason I fucking hate TloU. It's so unoriginal but genuine retards who only play AAA games and never watch movies/read books think it's a masterpiece.
The movie is a metaphor for a human life. In the end there is only decay and despair in every life, everyone is beyond hope in their later years.
It's about Hope. You can only give hope if you carry it. That is the "fire" they are trying to keep alive. A greater power beyond our understanding.
I think it's because most apocalypse scenarios still have canned food, supplies, farm animals, crops as humanity rebuilds,
No, other post-apocalyptic settings devolve into political thought experiments, ie the classic humans are the real monsters spiel
Because studios fear pessimistic endings.
The purpose of art is to convey imagery.
Evoking feelings might be a byproduct, but it is not the purpose of art.
it's to make you appreciate the life you have right now more
the book ends on a positive note but there's also several parts they left out of the movie that are even more bleak than anything in it
No. There is only sadistic torture while you're alive, and then a painful death. The kid got eaten alive by the cannibals (who were the good guys, since the bullies and murderers are the good guys in this world).
The fact that they had a dog is proof that they're not cannibals, retard
Well I fucking missed the point if that was it, all it did was depress the shit out of me, that alone isn’t the issue, plenty of sad movies and stories are also incredibly beautiful deep and complex but the road wasn’t any of that, fucking depressing as shit, that’s it
Yeah but in this movie they ARE literally monsters who eat people. The film gives me similar vibes to Quest for Fire.
Read the book. He doesn't. Think about why this guy has a family and is strapped and supplied. In the book I think he's called The Survivalist. There's a reason why the first thing he asks is "do you have a blanket?" And not "do you have food?". Cormac wrote the story as basically one of his only "happy" endings beucaee he in real life loves his son so much that he didn't want to end it the other way.
This is how I felt when I first watched it until I read the book. It's a hard film to watch because it's a really good fucking film. This is really what art is supposed to be, and like the other anon said, it evokes emotion and you have to decide how to process it. It's art kino because it has us discussing it right now and trying to disect the meaning of the film based on our perspestives and experiences.
Sometimes i swear to god i am Haruhi, literally yesterday i thought "man, what was the name of that movie with pre-historic humans protecting fire again, forget it i won't ever remember", less than 24 hours later i see your post lol
How do you figure? Are you stupid?
That kid was so pathetic and useless that he was never gonna survive anyways. Aragorn was held back by his retard son, but he would have just killed himself without the boy.
Did he really have to dog Omar this bad?
The clothes were a bit much. He was already going to die being left with nothing else
How come the plants all died but chernoble is green as fuck?
The sun was blocked out you retard
Wasnt there too much sun and thats why mila kunis wore sunglasses?
It was a bit much but at the same time I think he was showing the son a lesson. That in this landscape you can show mercy but not forgiveness? This guy has both of his thumbs cut off, that means he fucked up big time at least twice and then was cast out. Maybe you cannot help a person like that in this world.
The movie or book do not explain what was the cause. Just the result. Smart writing cus you let the viewer/readee decide.
I feel like the edgelord of the century for even contemplating this shit but it was really distracting at how bad the cannibals were at being cannibals
Keeping a person prisoner while slowly cutting them up for meat is a tremendous waste of calories, because their own body will continue burning off what you want from them as they starve in captivity
Intentionally impregnating women so you can eat their babies is an ASTONISHING waste of calories because a woman has to eat *a lot* over the course of nine months to grow the baby in the first place
Ironically as stupid and satirical as it was, fucking Fallout had a better treatment of rational cannibalism - simply kill a fella, then make jerky out of him
Calm the fuck down Armin Meiwes.
The fuck does human meat even taste like?
Based on the trophic level, probably between pig and dog, maybe like bear or rat, but not cat
IN THE FILM...if you watch for clues you will start to notice certain people are missing their thumbs.
Missing thumbs is an indicator of cannibals who were caught eating other people in the refugee camps and communes and got kicked out of them.
You will notice multiple people in the film are missing their thumbs, and only their thumbs.
Missing thumbs is the sign for cannibalism...I will say no more...I will say no more....
This film is bleak but soulful bleak, unlike something by the Coens, which is nihilistic bleak and evil, sometimes downright satanic
Even though it’s not explicitly stated, I think it’s either 1. Meteor strike and accompanying dust/ash cloud. 2. Super volcano and accompanying ash cloud.
some people argued for nuclear but there’s no discussion of radiation and nuclear winter has been pretty much disproven after it came out as a Cold War hoax and scientists actually started being honest about it
Either way, both are temporary states of the planet, and will be fixed in a number of years, so there is hope. It’s not straight decline, it’s decline and rebirth
itt: a bunch of midwits
Yes the movie is grim, yes living in that world is horrible but the whole point of the movie is to keep HOPE or as the father said, carrying the fire.
Literally 20 minutes before the movie literally spells it out for you that shit is going to get better by showing you that insects are coming back into the world
Super volcano and accompanying ash cloud.
Wouldn't that only affect Muttland if it was Yellowstone? Imagine the world being able to move forward without carrying all that dead weight. Fat cunts just eating each other, we'd just have to wait it out
Yes, thankfully America's atmosphere isn't connected to the rest of the planet's
That's exactly what's happening right now under Trump though
Post proof schizo
Nuclear winter is a hoax
Anon Babble really did a number on you retards
No, they got their thumbs cut off because of theft.
Anon Babble simp who believes in conspiracy theories
Moot was right. He should never have created Anon Babble
Let me know what points you disagree with? Oh wait, you’re just a derailment shill that gets off on (((yous)))
go suck off a 12g, faggot
The entire Wikipedia page for nuclear winter is about how it's exaggerated or bullshit, and you know how happy Wikipedia is to publish conspiratorial controversial misinformation in mainline articles
Of course I didn't need Wikipedia to know this because I own this book, where a third of it is Oak Ridge National Laboratory debunking the concept of nuclear winter because they're trying to enforce upon the reader all of the things that WILL kill you after a nuclear exchange; their central thesis being that the difference between "50% of America dies" and "90% of America dies" being how prevalent that "lol I'd just walk outside because who'd even want to try to live after a nuclear war" attitude is
were you the top or bottom?
The clothes were a bit much. He was already going to die being left with nothing else
Correct, so why leave him with his clothes? It's callous, but pragmatic. He's already done for, all he has left is the delusion that he's somehow going to make it or be saved by some miracle. Everyone thinks they're going to make it, and every corpse is someone who thought a miracle would save them, and even in the most dire circumstances imaginable he's still clinging to that. The clothes on his back aren't going to save him and it'd be generous to say they're even going to give him another day, but they could mean the difference between living and dying for those who actually have a chance.
nuclear winter askssually isn't le bad at all!
ok, so what? what is there to be gained from dying on this hill?
inb4 she goes on some wild Anon Babbleshit "W-WELL WHAT ELSE ARE THEY WRONG ABOUT??!?!?" tangent
Bottom. Why?
LE PEOPLERINO ARE EATING EACH OTHER AND ALL SPECIES ARE BECOMING EXTINCT????AAHHHHH THE HORROR!!!!
Carl Sagan personally frantically lobbied the government not to invade Iraq in 1991 because he had scientific proof that Saddam Hussein intentionally igniting the oil wells would cause a nuclear winter style human extinction event
we invaded Iraq
Saddam Hussein ignited the oil wells
nothing fucking happened
I still think Sagan was a smart guy so that must've been embarrassing for him
Dogs have excellent smell, perfect for hunting humans
Plus dogs can eat the parts of a person that you can't/won't, and will look out for you far more reliably than someone that's already conditioned to see their own species as food
Wrong, schizo. But yes. The thumbs are important.
Yeah some people say it was Yellowstone that blew up or something.
If it exploded the entire world would be fucked because the clouds would be carried across Europe and Africa and Asia.
Yes, it could also be nuclear winter. But like the other anon said they never said anything about radiation.
He was an atheist so wasn't that smart. Good guy tho.
Yes but you can also keep dogs to hunt for food and warm you of cannibals.
Does McSharthy really want me to believe that the creepy faggots with kids who were tracking the boy and father with a dog even before the father was hurt are going to protect him now? Lmao
The book clearly stated that there were groups of people existing in that world. Cus remember the story takes place years after the end of the world event.