"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Most realistic post-ap setting ever

Didn't the black man steal everything first?

I caught this movie on cable last night. I had not heard of it prior to then.

I thought it was a great movie actually. It really made me "feel" the experience of a post-ap. setting.

And let me add...everyone on this forum that believes a doomsday scenario would be awesome and cool...watch the movie, especially the parts with the cannibals.

Actually, it's not...

What The Road is, is a background for the hopelessness and absence of God that permeates all McCarthy's work. Another fucking Irishman with God issues... Imagine that!

Daddy & Son are too stupid to live. Daddy is so inspirational that he can't find a way to overcome post-partum depression in his wife in the post-nukes-have-fallen world so she goes out of the picture early on. As if the ashen and completely ruined backdrop he paints ain't bleak enough, motherhood is also denigrated. Daddy continually plotting the murder/suicide of self & son is further plot erosion.

McCarthy botches technical aspects of his story, typically, as he did in No Country For Old Men. Letting the informed reader know that a realistic, accurate portrayal of the facts is not his concern. Plot is always convoluted and confused to deliver total absence of any reliable story line. All there is is bleakness and characters defy the common logic other real-world actors in their place would exhibit.

What you have in Cormac McCarthy is a portrayal of social elements more base than Hubert Selby could have imagined. For all the horror of Last Exit To Brooklyn, the characters there seemed aware of their alienation from God; not so with any of McCarthy's plot foils. Oh, there is the sheriff in No Country, but he is an observer-storyteller giving the narrative and he laments the absence of decency but has no clue why it is absent. Funny how McCarthy also places that story in the 1980s when it was a late 60s emergence in Borderland Texas...

The Road reminds me of the walkers portrayed in the Turkish prison of Midnight Express; aimless and purposeless, not getting anywhere. When Daddy & "the boy" find a buried Survivalist bunker in Oregon, fully stocked, what do they do? Depart in a hurry. Just too stupid a plot contrivance to be believable; or is madness the overall theme and was the Mommy the only story character with any brains?

Pity the author is so lost in his own fuckedupness...

Everybody gets armor when SHTF?