A touching scene from the beginning of The Road, a movie based on the book by Cormac McCarthy. "All I know is the child is my warrant, and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.."
I read that on page three (of the paperback), and threw the book across the room. I recognized John 1:1. And knew I’d never write as good a sentence did I live to be 100.
When my father passed away, I told those gathered at his funeral, that my father had last recommended me this book, and that I always kept it near me in my car, because every time I had to wait for something, I would read a little bit. And, that the day I finished it, I would finish the last conversation I had with my father. I've still not finished it. I cherish his memory and know that if there is something after death, I will be by his side, and we can finally finish our discussion about this book.
I hope you finish it some day. In your own time. This book (and movie) remind me of my father so much. If he recommended this to you before he passed, it can only mean he loved you more than anything.
@@zachramey7187 I think he means it's not cliche and more possible. Like in the walking dead they only have limited showers and don't brush there teeth and dont eat well but somehow there healthy and clean looking, no drt skin or dirty lookin even with limited clothes. Perfectly fit and hopeful even tho everybody they come across tries to kill them and also perfectly white teeth.
@@diegopapias8743 Nah I get it and it certainly felt very real when watching, especially when compared to silly shows like TWD. I meant no disrespect either. When you put it in those terms specifically I guess it makes sense to call it realistic.
The last of us game (and thus the lesser show adaption) world is pretty bog standard and an average apocalyptic world tbh, what stands it out is the personal story and writing surrounding Joel and Ellie, the world around them is honestly meh as far as apocalyptic settings go in media
Doesn't make any sense. John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." is referring to Jesus Christ, the manifestation of God in the flesh. The boy in the film is just a creation - God created man. I enjoyed the film, but it's annoying to hear statements like that, especially when they are so far from the truth.
@@ronlevinson6216 It's a well-written metaphor to describe a father's love for his child and how the child is innocent of the world and beautiful to the father, not a refutation of your religious beliefs.
God….when he lifts the lid on the trash can and sees it filled with the bones of cannibal victims and he’s just like “hmm it’s just bones” with no reaction, really let’s you know how jaded he’s become with this terrifying world
I absolutely dread to watch this movie again.....I have never felt despair and hopelessness like this.....the bit that destroyed me was when he was going to shoot his son to save him from the cannibals and he ask when he's going to see him again....that hit harder than anything I have seen in a movie.
@captaincrum1 just watched it again after many years and yeah that scene always resonates with me when the boy ask when can I see you again will I see you again man that was brutal
What's amazing is that most places shot in this movie actually do exist. Those are mostly post-industrial deserted places in Pennsylvania. Then again, the shooting could have easily taken place in Detroit or Gary, Indiana, as those places look post-apocalyptic.
Exactly, that's what I heard too. The ambiance, the skies and the greenish water was all they had to add as CGI effects. If one day our planet was to be doomed, this is the closest to what it would look like.
I heard an interview with the director about locations. Some were on the ruined landscapes on and around Mount St. Helens. The scenes in the forest were shot in the Appalachians, possibly in Pennsylvania, others were in deserted open cast mines and quarries.
The clocks stopped at 1:17 There was a long shear of bright light then a series of low concussions I think it's october but I can't be sure, I haven't kept a calendar for years Each day is more grey than the one before. It is cold. And growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons looking for fuel and food Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting There has been cannibalism.. cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food... and the cold... and our shoes Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice, difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant. And if he is not the word of god, then god never spoke.
He said the world was on fire one day it never said what caused the downfall I’m assuming that smoke covered the atmosphere and the world withered away so no plants grew and then the animals died it’s basically a nuclear winter without the nukes
Frambhueee neither in the film nor the book does it exactly say, but most likely either been from asteroid impact or from a very devastating WW3(nuclear and neutron bombs as well as chemical weaponry razing large parts of the globe, while the rest just keeled over slowly and died as the oceans and atmosphere died)
@@SAVikingSA Ok, so the clock stopping at 1:17 though can't be a metaphor, it's too specific. In a nuclear attack the initial devastation is from gamma radiation. Gamma, or electromagnetic radiation, causes an EMP that stops electronics from functioning unless they are shielded which is the case in most military electronics. However you wouldn't find it in a standard circuit for a clock. So, since gamma rays travel at speeds near light-speed, in the very instant that a nuclear bomb detonates, every single unprotected circuit within it's range will die simultaneously. Hence, "...the clock stopped at 1:17..." My guess is this book and movie is about nuclear war and it's consequences. Also in the book they talk about bodies laying in the street and in their cars that were killed by the extinction event, which, I don't think a meteor can does anything like that, it's just one big boom. Whereas, a nuke, can cause nuclear fallout and that can be extremely deadly and instantaneous depending on the amount of radioactivity.
Saw this movie with my old man a few years ago, man was that a hard watch, when it ended we were really depressed, one of those movies you respect and feel the weight and meaning of it's message but oh boy, you only watch it once.
I like how in both the Movie and even the Book, it is *_never_* explained exactly what sort of cataclysm had caused the world to become like this, because to keep in line with the fact that it is for-all-purposes a survival story about a father and his son, in the end it doesn't really matter what had caused the world to "end", what matters is one's own survival, it's "fight or die" now. But what is also interesting, at least for me, is how we can speculate what had caused this post-apocalyptic world, could've been a nuclear war or massive volcanic eruption, which would cause a blanketing nuclear winter like this; an asteroid impact, etc. It's up to us to decide what was the years-ago cataclysm. ;)
It would seem the it was a impact of a large space rock, probably several kilometers in size. That would deliver enough energy to eject millions of tons of earth and rock into space which would then rain down back to earth starting world wide firestorms. The smoke and ash from the fires along with the debris from the impact would be injected into the stratosphere, because there is no snow or rain that high it would remain there for many years causing the earth to cool dramatically and killing off all plant life. The plants die and the animals soon follow..
The line about a bright light and the low concussive sound means it was an impact event. You're right that it isn't the point of the story, but McCarthy does tell us what happened. He just trusts the audience more than most authors to understand it.
I was thinking meteor(s) strike(s) or secondly massive volcanic eruption. The fact there is no (blatant) references to radiation tilts me away from nuclear war scenario.
Definitely not nuclear war, there was already fires outside of his home, but he was able to stay there in the beginning. It was either a super volcano or an impact. But it's hard to say because electronics stopped working, which makes it seem like a solar flare or nuclear, something that causes EMP, but it doesn't match up with anything else. The earthquakes are also a big indicator that it was either an impact or volcano. There is no radiation, the breathing issues stems from the ash in the air. A solar flare might cause EMP effects, but it wouldn't exactly cause ash in the air. The only thing that fits all of criteria is potentially a catastrophic flip of the earths magnetic field, which might cause both solar flares and volcanic eruptions. But most people believe that even if the magnetic field were to flip, it wouldn't do much, so you'll just have to assume it's the scifi worst case scenario of a magnetic flip.
I read that McCarthy is involved with a think tank of scientists that meet periodically to discuss random things. The topic of how the world could enter another ice age was a topic and most agreed that it would be the Yellowstone caldera erupting as it has a few times before.
When I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10, my dad let me watch the Terminator films with him (at the time there was only the Terminator and Judgment Day). Like an impressionable young boy would, I became terrified and obsessed with the idea of nuclear holocaust. I even had a few nightmares about it. I was riding in the car with my dad one day and I asked what it would be like, would there be any way to survive, etc. My dad, having grown up during the "Red Scare" in the 1950's (the duck-and-cover days), said these words: "If you see that bright light, climb as high as you can and go out with the first wave. There's nothing to fear in death. The only thing to fear is what survives." Oddly enough, those words comforted me, because I hadn't even considered that I would survive. I was terrified of what dying would feel like. My dad and I were talking one day after this movie came out, and I guess he flashed back to when I was still a scared kid. He reminded me that in a situation like this, you never allow yourself to be taken alive. Do whatever it takes to make sure they kill you.
Damn your dad is a poetic one and I also see why you should want to die when you see the light. Survival is suffering Life is painful Death in this case is comforting us from the wasteland and being a friend
My childhood home was about 13 miles from a major SAC bomber base, Barksdale. "The Day After" and another film about Hiroshima scared the crap out of me. I kept waiting for the sun to come up suddenly at midnight, but thank God, it never did.
Yes. 💯 all of this. I get that most people fantasize about surviving an apocalypse, but the cold, cruel reality is they’d only be prolonging the inevitable and giving themselves a slow death.
@@aztecfilms that's why if you survive, have a designated executioner who understands anatomy. and preferably a method of quick death, like a gun. as for a slow death, well, most of us are raised like cattle anyways so of course we aren't gonna make it. you don't want your livestock getting away; you, on the other hand, can hide in the farmhouse. if you catch my drift. we're disposable pawns. they get the bunkers. we get nothing.
So... I was watching this movie not 5 min. Ago with my girlfriend and she said it was boring... Kick her out... Still watchimg the movie alone its an awesome movie
Cristian Garcia ermagerd like why is everything so grey? why does it have to be so sad? how come everyone's dead? why is that guy so dirty? can't he steal some clothes from old navy or something? what's his wife's problem, she's such a bitch! can you tell me what happened? what do you mean you don't know? why would you watch a movie where like you don't know what happened? can we watch the notebook instead?
Cristian Garcia I write this type of thing, so I'm one of the women who gets your pain. My husband doesn't get films like this...he's very American (I'm Maltese) and everything has to be happy and shiny all the time, especially the films. It's a really common thread in this country, that everything has to be constantly happy. Not to be insulting, it just hit me in the face so much when I first came here.
+comfortouch Agreed. I'm a female American and thought it was very meaningful. Let it be a warning to those survivalists out there hoping the zombie apocalypse will happen so they can be ninja warrior Call of Duty wannabes. THIS is what really happens when the shit hits the fan. Not so fun anymore, is it? Oh, and Cristian? Get a new girlfriend, dude, cause any girl who can't see meaning in this is a complete airhead. Find someone with intelligence.
everyone likes to say this was a nuclear war but no nuclear war could ever cause the level of global devastation we see in this film. the most fitting thing that matches his description is an extinction-level meteor strike. similar to the one that took out the dinosaurs or maybe even a little larger.
Z Hancox no they could. If ww3 were to start. Then 1 by 1 in a matter of days. All nuclear reactors which remained would begin to go off. Some even possibly igniting (not happened yet) but. Ww3 could cause this type of damage. Or possibly worse. As the radiation coming from all the reactors would begin to spread into the atmosphere
The apocalypse portrayed in "The Road" is just not realistic: it's a kluge used to drive the main theme. With nuclear winter, or an impact, eventually things recover. But in "The Road," it is cold and "getting colder" years after the event. There is no plant and no animal life, save for wandering human survivors who sometimes prey on each other. Even after Chixulub, there were survivors: small rodents, and the smaller lizards, and sea things.
Z Hancox Yeah Id say it’s either a meteor strike or the Yellowstone eruption. I’d go with Yellowstone, because if it were to erupt the ash and gas would block out the sun, crops would die and so would the people. It would become cold and desolate, which is how this film is
I've just finished the movie. It is something else. I know I'll return to it in my mind many, many times in the future. For me 10/10. Edit: the closing scene is so beautiful. The actress made the most memorable moment of the whole movie.
It’s the only movie I’ve ever watched that I don’t think I can watch again. I absolutely loved the movie. Best I’ve seen but the empty feeling it left me with was so deep I’m not sure I can do it again. I’ve only ever felt that in a book. God I loved this movie
I absolutely fear to watch this movie again.....there is no hope no brighter tommorow everything Is lost and with each tree falling and echoing out a across the bleak landscape it's like the Earth's taking one last gasp before it to gives up.
this movie is powerful! beautiful and sad at the same time! the journey is painful, but in the bond of the father and son, u can see glimpses of hope dawn somewhere on the road found this movie at that time, on a pen drive given to me by a coworker, with many films in it. watch it and fell in love! awesome discovering underrated flicks like this
This movie doesn’t receive enough praise. Probably the best depiction of life post apocalypse and the relationship between a father and son. Forgot to add that the book is amazing in its own right but Viggo made this character come to life.
It is the most depressing and realistic depiction of an apocalypse I have ever seen.....especially when he says each day grows colder and greyer than the next.....and the trees falling is like Earth's last breaths before it finally flatlines.....there will be no brighter tommorow there will be no hope it truly is the end. The only apocalyptic movie to have me in tears.....it truly was to much to witness. But to be there to witness it all end would be an honour....just as special as seeing it all begin.
Powerful stuff here. The imagery mixed with the narrative gives a very quick low down on the state of the world and the relationship between father and son. This could easily be a short film in itself.
Closest thing in media I've found to this movie and the book has been the metro series. Sure it has way to much supernatural shit but at the same time everything else is exactly like this bleak atmosphere its amazing how rare that is to find in a genre about the apocalypse.
Arguably the most realistic portrayal of what an apocalypse would be like. I found this movie to nearly equal the heaviness and loss of hope found within the pages of this profound story. Not for the faint of heart.
I seriously couldn't handle this movie it had me feel despair I have never felt and wept like a baby when he said that very sentance.....there's is no hope there is no brighter tommorow....the sun shall rise but make no difference....and the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it to gives up.
@@iamzed3934 You are foolish to think that way. What you think will happen when our oil reserves go dry?? What do you think will happen when the pollution reaches the point of no return? What do you think will happen when our water supplies slowly becomes tainted and undrinkable? you think all the resources are Unlimited? All this.. is already in motion. The last war will be for the resources. If we can't change our ways , YES OUR WAYS , and with all the weapons that our governments are building, chemical , nuclear or whatsoever, this future will bloody happen. Like it or not it is what it is. You can either stand up and do something good that can change the world or sit down thinking we are invincible. Bloody asteroids.. really laughed there! Good luck love!
@@iamzed3934 I gave you that Impression but no I haven't given up yet, never will. Let's just say I've travelled alot and saw what we really are deep down, and its not beautiful. This is why I say that we drastically need to change. We are , yes, but not fast enough unfortunately.. Keep it going and never give up yeah? Let them hear your voice Yeaah forget the bloody asteroid ahahah Cheers
I wonder if this is how that small handful of humans felt after the volcano Toba erupted. Confused, desperate, terrified. Simply fighting against all odds to see one more sunrise. Not even knowing if the nightmare would ever end. Terrifying stuff.
When this book came out. Unknowingly my wife and I had bought it for each other for Christmas. We read it together and when the movie came out we went to see it together. Love the book and the movie.
"The clocks stopped at 1:17. It was a long and sheer bright light , then a series of low concussions". No one wins in nuclear war. Only those with the least damage
@@goober5980 it may be a reference to one clock that survived Hiroshima's nuclear blast, and that stopped exactly at 8:15 AM, when Little Boy was set off on the city's sky.
I agree in that this was an Extinction Level Event asteroid strike sort of like what wiped out the dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 If it were the aftermath of a full on nuke strike, the radiation would be so intense they wouldn’t be able to walk around like that for very long. Everything would be poisoned as well.
The thing about nuclear winter--whether from bombs or from impact--is that things gradually recover, as they did after the dinosaur ELE, or in fiction as in "The Postman" (the book). But in "The Road," I feel like the uncontrolled, systemic decay of literally every plant and animal is a kluge, a dues ex machina. That's the only flaw I find in the story, which is a great one.
@@manny_freah5148 Hydrogen bombs still need a fission device as a firts stage to reach the conditions of pressure and temperature in order to initiate the fusion reaction. In terms of percentage, the radioactive part is lessend compared to the tremendous heat wave but there is still radioactivity in the fallouts.
Get prepared? This is the result of this politician or that? You didn't understand the movie and probably haven't read McCarthy. The book/movie is a discussion about the purpose in living (struggling) when one knows it ends in death. Suicide is the logical and humane decision, as represented by the mother, but the contradicting survival instinct, represented by the father lives on. The child forces the father to explain the desire to live by identifying whether he was one of the good or the bad people: cannibals. It is the rational versus the selfish instinct (the father leading a boy through a terrible world knowing he would die). If you want to go political, then think about how both parties exploit our realization of the above.
We don't know what caused this apocalypse to happen. But that's not the point of the book. The point of the book is that you are only the way you are because of your environment. In the right circumstance, humans are capable of the most evil things in order for survival. That or it's just a story about a boy and a man in a post apocalyptic world, but I think it's much more than that.
Oh and to further foster this point. The child who is pure and untouched by the hand of greed, is basically the only one who will not go to lengths in order for survival if it's against his morals. Hence, "if he is not the word of god, then god never spoke".
I don’t think this is depressing. I see a message of purity. Of the removal of the complexities of existence so we’re left with the essentials. I see a message of human relationships and how, even after everything else is gone, a parent will still do anything to protect their child. It’s a love story.
@zig meh. I'm a PC Master Race political officer of the first order, but even I have heard of "The Last of Us" and its magnificence. I think "Last" was inspired by "The Road," I read that somewhere.
this movie will crush your soul you will need your happy pills after this movie is over. i got the road book version and the dvd version of the road to. in the apocalypse money will be worthless. when the camera zooms in on the money on floor in the apocalypse money will good for fire tinder and that's it
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***** GET THE FUCK outta here, cos' I'm getting tired of explaining stuff to such an uneducated douchebag you are. And nobody talked to you in the first place, fuck off you little dumbass
I think this movie should be shown in every school across America to show kids what it would really be like in a post-apocalyptic world. The Book of Eli, which came out around the same time, portrays a message of hope amongst all the chaos. The Road doesn't. It's just dark and depressing and probably more realistic.
One of only movies I dread to watch again....the trees falling down one by one like the Earth's taking one last gasp of breath before it to gives up...*especially when he says each day is getting colder and greyer than the next"....it truly hit me hard. There is no hope there is no brighter tommorow.
This movie was truly to much to witness.....the realism the sobering fact there will be no brighter tommorow there is no hope. And the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it finally flatlines....the heaviest hitting thing he says is "Each day is growing colder and each day is greyer than the next"....I actually cried during this movie...it was actually to much to handle.
This movie truly had me on the edge of despair I have never felt before.....there is no brighter tommorow the sun shall rise but make no difference....there is no hope. And the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it flatlines and gives up...and when he says "Each day is greyer than the next and it's cold and getting colder" truly broke me.
This is the aftermath of a meteorite strike, maybe 1 mile in diameter so pretty tiny compared to Chixculub. The nuclear winter and massive tsunamis you see when on the beaches as well as complete collapse of the food chain and endless years of lukewarm darkness.
A nearby gamma-ray burst could sterilise Earth. These bursts of energy are so powerful that they can briefly outshine the rest of the Universe. Fortunately, the chance of one occurring nearby is slim. Beaming with energy: The radiation from gamma-ray bursts is strongly beamed in two opposite directions.
Can you feel it ? It's coming . Prepare yourselves, I'm not trying to worry you but world wide something ain't quite right and it's not been right since we came out of lockdown. Something is different, something is wrong, I don't mean climate or politics though they are maybe a symptom but I mean a thing I can't quite put my finger on. I can feel it happening, surely I'm not the only one 😓
Yes, a major omission no one else seems to have noticed, I agree. Their worries are food, shoes, the cold, and cannibalism in the movie, but water doesn't seem to figure. Other than a can of Coke, and some Jack Daniels in the subterranean shelter, they never seem to drink anything! That aside, this is nevertheless an incredibly powerful film, based on an outstanding novel. Loved both.
@@BintAlAbla1999 in the book they drank cocoa in the mountains, and the man tried to give all of the cocoa to the boy, and just give hot water to himself. Implying they just boil water from the snow/streams.
Judging by the blasted trees floating in the river, I'd say it was a meteorite. Perhaps Yellowstone supercaldera. Nuclear weapons would not likely be used on remote areas.
2:28: those pearls and other jewelry scattered on the floor, ashy, dusty, forsaken and forgotten... people used to kill and to die for the amount of money that would allow its owners to afford such fine pieces. Now, the few who survived couldn't care less for them, including any woman who had eventually wore them in a world long gone. The artistry of this scene is beyond description.
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@@iamzed3934 as McCarthy points out at the end of the book, this old world was made "of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again".
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@@iamzed3934 nature will recover, but human civilization is lost forever, demolished to never be rebuilt again.
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@@iamzed3934 there barely are people around. No nation has survived the cataclysm. All the animals and plants died. The financial system has entirely collapsed. Life can thrive again after the soot settles, and maybe even humankind can keep existing after that, but this world we live in, the one which was destroyed in _The Road_ , this world will never be rebuilt again. There simply are not enough people and knowledge left to do so.
ALL WORLD LEADERS - ESPECIALLY THE NUCLEAR POWERS - SHOULD BE FORCED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ! Any "hoorah" military enthusiast who thinks the USA - or anyone - can "win" a nuclear war, should also be forced to watch it.
halojump123: REALLY ? From a video game "warrior", who has NEVER seen the real horrors of war ? LOL ! Go back to your mama's basement, little wimp, and grow some balls !
Nuclear?? It was caused by a impact from a large space rock. That is the only thing that could cause the kind of conditions that are described in the book and movie..
I just realize the only car stripped for parts is the Volvo 240 in this scene, must mean there are still some 240's running LOL. guns, ammo, good knife, flash light and solar charger, Firestarter, good boots, good back pack, maybe a trap for a tent and a Volvo 240. Now I am all set for the end of the world.
“All I know is the child is my warrant... and if he is not the word of god, then god never spoke...” this is my favourite quote from this book
I read that on page three (of the paperback), and threw the book across the room. I recognized John 1:1. And knew I’d never write as good a sentence did I live to be 100.
What does that even mean?
@@franklynchacha803 "If keeping this child, my child alive is not worth it. Then nothing is"
This is how I interpret that sentence.
Mine was "There is no God and we are his prophets".
@@Enrulerso edgy and cool great job such a unique and unheard of perspective.
When my father passed away, I told those gathered at his funeral, that my father had last recommended me this book, and that I always kept it near me in my car, because every time I had to wait for something, I would read a little bit. And, that the day I finished it, I would finish the last conversation I had with my father. I've still not finished it. I cherish his memory and know that if there is something after death, I will be by his side, and we can finally finish our discussion about this book.
That's fucking beautiful.
I hope you finish it some day. In your own time. This book (and movie) remind me of my father so much. If he recommended this to you before he passed, it can only mean he loved you more than anything.
Wow, you expressed that thought so eloquently, I’m a bit choked up. Thank you for this.
That was simply beautiful. Made me think of my late father and gives me hope that one day we may converse again... Thank you.
the most realistic portrayal of the post apocalypse in movies/literature
Highly recommend you to watch Threads. Probably the only movie I watched that was more grim and depressing than this movie.
@@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC Threads was absolutely incredible. More people need to see it imo.
It's definitely my personal favorite, but how can you call it "realistic?" Do have any post apocalyptic life experience?
@@zachramey7187 I think he means it's not cliche and more possible. Like in the walking dead they only have limited showers and don't brush there teeth and dont eat well but somehow there healthy and clean looking, no drt skin or dirty lookin even with limited clothes. Perfectly fit and hopeful even tho everybody they come across tries to kill them and also perfectly white teeth.
@@diegopapias8743 Nah I get it and it certainly felt very real when watching, especially when compared to silly shows like TWD. I meant no disrespect either. When you put it in those terms specifically I guess it makes sense to call it realistic.
This makes The last of us look like Kingdom Hearts...
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Totally, in the last of us at least nature got to Blume and this is evident by the colorful green landscape
What's funny is The Last of Us took inspiration from The Road.
@@oscar-cm4rc the sheer fucking irony
The last of us game (and thus the lesser show adaption) world is pretty bog standard and an average apocalyptic world tbh, what stands it out is the personal story and writing surrounding Joel and Ellie, the world around them is honestly meh as far as apocalyptic settings go in media
RIP Cormac McCarthy.
"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
“If he is not the word of God then God never spoke” may be the most beautiful line I’ve ever read, and Viggo delivers it perfectly.
I hear you.
lol...funny..lol
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Doesn't make any sense. John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." is referring to Jesus Christ, the manifestation of God in the flesh. The boy in the film is just a creation - God created man. I enjoyed the film, but it's annoying to hear statements like that, especially when they are so far from the truth.
@@ronlevinson6216 It's a well-written metaphor to describe a father's love for his child and how the child is innocent of the world and beautiful to the father, not a refutation of your religious beliefs.
God….when he lifts the lid on the trash can and sees it filled with the bones of cannibal victims and he’s just like “hmm it’s just bones” with no reaction, really let’s you know how jaded he’s become with this terrifying world
I absolutely dread to watch this movie again.....I have never felt despair and hopelessness like this.....the bit that destroyed me was when he was going to shoot his son to save him from the cannibals and he ask when he's going to see him again....that hit harder than anything I have seen in a movie.
95 percent of post apocalyptic movies usually have this unrealistic sense of adventure and freedom…but this world is not pleasant at ALL
@captaincrum1 just watched it again after many years and yeah that scene always resonates with me when the boy ask when can I see you again will I see you again man that was brutal
What's amazing is that most places shot in this movie actually do exist. Those are mostly post-industrial deserted places in Pennsylvania. Then again, the shooting could have easily taken place in Detroit or Gary, Indiana, as those places look post-apocalyptic.
J VK I guess all they had to do for some shots was make a grey overcast sky with cgi.
Exactly, that's what I heard too. The ambiance, the skies and the greenish water was all they had to add as CGI effects. If one day our planet was to be doomed, this is the closest to what it would look like.
Jools VK lmao! Good one
I heard an interview with the director about locations. Some were on the ruined landscapes on and around Mount St. Helens. The scenes in the forest were shot in the Appalachians, possibly in Pennsylvania, others were in deserted open cast mines and quarries.
@John Doe You could've said that in a much better way,
Read the book. This was grim, but after the book you'll need prozac..
Best book I've ever read. The dialogue between the man and the boy had me on the verge of tears multiple times. Very powerful writing.
+bigweeknee55 When the boy says "I am the one" who has to worry about everything. Damn.
what is an books??
whats the book called?
doddi1984 well im retarded and lazy, sometimes books have a different name from the movies
The clocks stopped at 1:17 There was a long shear of bright light then a series of low concussions
I think it's october but I can't be sure, I haven't kept a calendar for years
Each day is more grey than the one before. It is cold. And growing colder as the world slowly dies.
No animals have survived and the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall.
The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons looking for fuel and food
Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting
There has been cannibalism.. cannibalism is the great fear.
Mostly I worry about food. Always food... and the cold... and our shoes
Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice, difficult as they are to remember.
All I know is the child is my warrant. And if he is not the word of god, then god never spoke.
What cause all this?
He said the world was on fire one day it never said what caused the downfall I’m assuming that smoke covered the atmosphere and the world withered away so no plants grew and then the animals died it’s basically a nuclear winter without the nukes
Frambhueee neither in the film nor the book does it exactly say, but most likely either been from asteroid impact or from a very devastating WW3(nuclear and neutron bombs as well as chemical weaponry razing large parts of the globe, while the rest just keeled over slowly and died as the oceans and atmosphere died)
The line about a bright light and a series of low concussions basically confirms it as an asteroid or comet impact.
@@SAVikingSA Ok, so the clock stopping at 1:17 though can't be a metaphor, it's too specific. In a nuclear attack the initial devastation is from gamma radiation. Gamma, or electromagnetic radiation, causes an EMP that stops electronics from functioning unless they are shielded which is the case in most military electronics. However you wouldn't find it in a standard circuit for a clock. So, since gamma rays travel at speeds near light-speed, in the very instant that a nuclear bomb detonates, every single unprotected circuit within it's range will die simultaneously. Hence, "...the clock stopped at 1:17..." My guess is this book and movie is about nuclear war and it's consequences. Also in the book they talk about bodies laying in the street and in their cars that were killed by the extinction event, which, I don't think a meteor can does anything like that, it's just one big boom. Whereas, a nuke, can cause nuclear fallout and that can be extremely deadly and instantaneous depending on the amount of radioactivity.
Saw this movie with my old man a few years ago, man was that a hard watch, when it ended we were really depressed, one of those movies you respect and feel the weight and meaning of it's message but oh boy, you only watch it once.
i have seen it many times, keep the light inside of you burning. its dark but a really beautiful gem of a movie and book.
Shouldn’t leave depressed, more grateful and you should consider things you could do to prepare for the worst case scenario’s.
The more times you watch this the sadder it is..nick caves piano and warren Ellis’s violin makes the emotion so much deeper
I like how in both the Movie and even the Book, it is *_never_* explained exactly what sort of cataclysm had caused the world to become like this, because to keep in line with the fact that it is for-all-purposes a survival story about a father and his son, in the end it doesn't really matter what had caused the world to "end", what matters is one's own survival, it's "fight or die" now.
But what is also interesting, at least for me, is how we can speculate what had caused this post-apocalyptic world, could've been a nuclear war or massive volcanic eruption, which would cause a blanketing nuclear winter like this; an asteroid impact, etc. It's up to us to decide what was the years-ago cataclysm. ;)
It would seem the it was a impact of a large space rock, probably several kilometers in size. That would deliver enough energy to eject millions of tons of earth and rock into space which would then rain down back to earth starting world wide firestorms. The smoke and ash from the fires along with the debris from the impact would be injected into the stratosphere, because there is no snow or rain that high it would remain there for many years causing the earth to cool dramatically and killing off all plant life. The plants die and the animals soon follow..
The line about a bright light and the low concussive sound means it was an impact event. You're right that it isn't the point of the story, but McCarthy does tell us what happened. He just trusts the audience more than most authors to understand it.
I was thinking meteor(s) strike(s) or secondly massive volcanic eruption. The fact there is no (blatant) references to radiation tilts me away from nuclear war scenario.
Definitely not nuclear war, there was already fires outside of his home, but he was able to stay there in the beginning. It was either a super volcano or an impact. But it's hard to say because electronics stopped working, which makes it seem like a solar flare or nuclear, something that causes EMP, but it doesn't match up with anything else. The earthquakes are also a big indicator that it was either an impact or volcano. There is no radiation, the breathing issues stems from the ash in the air. A solar flare might cause EMP effects, but it wouldn't exactly cause ash in the air. The only thing that fits all of criteria is potentially a catastrophic flip of the earths magnetic field, which might cause both solar flares and volcanic eruptions. But most people believe that even if the magnetic field were to flip, it wouldn't do much, so you'll just have to assume it's the scifi worst case scenario of a magnetic flip.
I read that McCarthy is involved with a think tank of scientists that meet periodically to discuss random things. The topic of how the world could enter another ice age was a topic and most agreed that it would be the Yellowstone caldera erupting as it has a few times before.
When I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10, my dad let me watch the Terminator films with him (at the time there was only the Terminator and Judgment Day). Like an impressionable young boy would, I became terrified and obsessed with the idea of nuclear holocaust. I even had a few nightmares about it. I was riding in the car with my dad one day and I asked what it would be like, would there be any way to survive, etc. My dad, having grown up during the "Red Scare" in the 1950's (the duck-and-cover days), said these words: "If you see that bright light, climb as high as you can and go out with the first wave. There's nothing to fear in death. The only thing to fear is what survives." Oddly enough, those words comforted me, because I hadn't even considered that I would survive. I was terrified of what dying would feel like. My dad and I were talking one day after this movie came out, and I guess he flashed back to when I was still a scared kid. He reminded me that in a situation like this, you never allow yourself to be taken alive. Do whatever it takes to make sure they kill you.
Damn your dad is a poetic one and I also see why you should want to die when you see the light.
Survival is suffering
Life is painful
Death in this case is comforting us from the wasteland and being a friend
@@virtualunreality3771 Thanks for that. And I agree, though somehow I feel like most of us won't be that lucky.
My childhood home was about 13 miles from a major SAC bomber base, Barksdale. "The Day After" and another film about Hiroshima scared the crap out of me. I kept waiting for the sun to come up suddenly at midnight, but thank God, it never did.
Yes. 💯 all of this. I get that most people fantasize about surviving an apocalypse, but the cold, cruel reality is they’d only be prolonging the inevitable and giving themselves a slow death.
@@aztecfilms that's why if you survive, have a designated executioner who understands anatomy. and preferably a method of quick death, like a gun.
as for a slow death, well, most of us are raised like cattle anyways so of course we aren't gonna make it. you don't want your livestock getting away; you, on the other hand, can hide in the farmhouse. if you catch my drift.
we're disposable pawns. they get the bunkers. we get nothing.
Never let go of that fire, people
No one will be able to carry this fire for too long in a world like that.
Now more than ever..
@@RobertOrwellSandman in that world they’ll use the fire to cook your dead body
Prometheus robbed that fire from the gods and gave it to us, we shall keep carrying it even after we are dead and gone.
So... I was watching this movie not 5 min. Ago with my girlfriend and she said it was boring... Kick her out... Still watchimg the movie alone its an awesome movie
Cristian Garcia You should have told her to cook dinner while you watched the movie lol.
Cristian Garcia ermagerd like why is everything so grey? why does it have to be so sad? how come everyone's dead? why is that guy so dirty? can't he steal some clothes from old navy or something? what's his wife's problem, she's such a bitch! can you tell me what happened? what do you mean you don't know? why would you watch a movie where like you don't know what happened? can we watch the notebook instead?
Cristian Garcia I write this type of thing, so I'm one of the women who gets your pain. My husband doesn't get films like this...he's very American (I'm Maltese) and everything has to be happy and shiny all the time, especially the films. It's a really common thread in this country, that everything has to be constantly happy. Not to be insulting, it just hit me in the face so much when I first came here.
blackcitroenlove I'm a female American, and I think this is awesome... The film-makers just have to find their audience.
+comfortouch Agreed. I'm a female American and thought it was very meaningful. Let it be a warning to those survivalists out there hoping the zombie apocalypse will happen so they can be ninja warrior Call of Duty wannabes. THIS is what really happens when the shit hits the fan. Not so fun anymore, is it? Oh, and Cristian? Get a new girlfriend, dude, cause any girl who can't see meaning in this is a complete airhead. Find someone with intelligence.
i watched this movie for the first time today and it has literally destroyed me
RIP
Olympe de Gouges same
Yeah, I was restless for a few days.
You were my ap world project
Daniel NoneYa 😂😂
everyone likes to say this was a nuclear war but no nuclear war could ever cause the level of global devastation we see in this film. the most fitting thing that matches his description is an extinction-level meteor strike. similar to the one that took out the dinosaurs or maybe even a little larger.
I have said the same thing. Though eruption of Yellowstone Caldera could do the same.
Z Hancox no they could. If ww3 were to start. Then 1 by 1 in a matter of days. All nuclear reactors which remained would begin to go off. Some even possibly igniting (not happened yet) but. Ww3 could cause this type of damage. Or possibly worse. As the radiation coming from all the reactors would begin to spread into the atmosphere
That makes sense due to the tremors and ships in the middle of nowhere troughout the movie.
The apocalypse portrayed in "The Road" is just not realistic: it's a kluge used to drive the main theme. With nuclear winter, or an impact, eventually things recover. But in "The Road," it is cold and "getting colder" years after the event. There is no plant and no animal life, save for wandering human survivors who sometimes prey on each other. Even after Chixulub, there were survivors: small rodents, and the smaller lizards, and sea things.
Z Hancox Yeah Id say it’s either a meteor strike or the Yellowstone eruption. I’d go with Yellowstone, because if it were to erupt the ash and gas would block out the sun, crops would die and so would the people. It would become cold and desolate, which is how this film is
The opening monologue is sooo depressing
Oh man... I’d rather just blow my brains out
Man, Aragorn just hasn't been the same since Arwen left him for some dwarf chad
Holy shit
Truly one of the most heartbreaking performances ever captured, Viggo nailed this role. One of the greatest achievements in acting.
this is a really hard movie to watch
The book is even harder.. The born infant scene...fuck....me.
Jesus, I thought I was the only one
definitely, the most depressing yet touching books I have read in my life.
Bright side - there will be no shitty ipads in this world
Just a book
I've just finished the movie. It is something else. I know I'll return to it in my mind many, many times in the future. For me 10/10. Edit: the closing scene is so beautiful. The actress made the most memorable moment of the whole movie.
Really ?
Read the book, kept randomly hugging my son - he was confused :-)
Could you do it? Could you smash that beloved skull? ;_;
The movie made me go hug my dad.
@@Blastadonn can you do it? When the time comes? Can you?
It’s the only movie I’ve ever watched that I don’t think I can watch again. I absolutely loved the movie. Best I’ve seen but the empty feeling it left me with was so deep I’m not sure I can do it again. I’ve only ever felt that in a book.
God I loved this movie
I absolutely fear to watch this movie again.....there is no hope no brighter tommorow everything Is lost and with each tree falling and echoing out a across the bleak landscape it's like the Earth's taking one last gasp before it to gives up.
this movie is powerful! beautiful and sad at the same time!
the journey is painful, but in the bond of the father and son, u can see glimpses of hope dawn somewhere on the road
found this movie at that time, on a pen drive given to me by a coworker, with many films in it.
watch it and fell in love! awesome discovering underrated flicks like this
What i want from a apocalyptic movie
"The Road"(2009) is an excellent post apocalyptic thriller road movie, and one of the best movies of all time for this Kind!
What a fantastic opening scene. I remember tearing up just in the first 15 minutes.
This movie doesn’t receive enough praise. Probably the best depiction of life post apocalypse and the relationship between a father and son.
Forgot to add that the book is amazing in its own right but Viggo made this character come to life.
It is the most depressing and realistic depiction of an apocalypse I have ever seen.....especially when he says each day grows colder and greyer than the next.....and the trees falling is like Earth's last breaths before it finally flatlines.....there will be no brighter tommorow there will be no hope it truly is the end.
The only apocalyptic movie to have me in tears.....it truly was to much to witness.
But to be there to witness it all end would be an honour....just as special as seeing it all begin.
Powerful stuff here. The imagery mixed with the narrative gives a very quick low down on the state of the world and the relationship between father and son. This could easily be a short film in itself.
Closest thing in media I've found to this movie and the book has been the metro series.
Sure it has way to much supernatural shit but at the same time everything else is exactly like this bleak atmosphere its amazing how rare that is to find in a genre about the apocalypse.
Arguably the most realistic portrayal of what an apocalypse would be like. I found this movie to nearly equal the heaviness and loss of hope found within the pages of this profound story. Not for the faint of heart.
Watched it six times, gives me a clear head when I feel depressed . It's comming!
"Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold, and growing colder, as the world slowly dies"
I seriously couldn't handle this movie it had me feel despair I have never felt and wept like a baby when he said that very sentance.....there's is no hope there is no brighter tommorow....the sun shall rise but make no difference....and the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it to gives up.
One of the most beautiful monologues I've ever heard from anyone for that matter, nobody but Viggo could've done it as well.
Viggo's the man!
Haunting, visceral, unforgiving, bleak, brutal, defeatist, honest, *human*
With all the recent news about forest fire and all, starting to think this movie, this future , Inevitable..
@@iamzed3934 You are foolish to think that way. What you think will happen when our oil reserves go dry?? What do you think will happen when the pollution reaches the point of no return? What do you think will happen when our water supplies slowly becomes tainted and undrinkable? you think all the resources are Unlimited? All this.. is already in motion. The last war will be for the resources.
If we can't change our ways , YES OUR WAYS , and with all the weapons that our governments are building, chemical , nuclear or whatsoever, this future will bloody happen. Like it or not it is what it is.
You can either stand up and do something good that can change the world or sit down thinking we are invincible.
Bloody asteroids.. really laughed there! Good luck love!
@@iamzed3934 I gave you that Impression but no I haven't given up yet, never will. Let's just say I've travelled alot and saw what we really are deep down, and its not beautiful. This is why I say that we drastically need to change. We are , yes, but not fast enough unfortunately..
Keep it going and never give up yeah? Let them hear your voice
Yeaah forget the bloody asteroid ahahah
Cheers
I wonder if this is how that small handful of humans felt after the volcano Toba erupted. Confused, desperate, terrified. Simply fighting against all odds to see one more sunrise. Not even knowing if the nightmare would ever end. Terrifying stuff.
This movie makes you feel like S*@# but its so good
its because your stomach is full and you have no hunger
When this book came out. Unknowingly my wife and I had bought it for each other for Christmas. We read it together and when the movie came out we went to see it together. Love the book and the movie.
"The clocks stopped at 1:17. It was a long and sheer bright light , then a series of low concussions".
No one wins in nuclear war. Only those with the least damage
Would a nuclear explosion cause "a series of low concussions"?
There’s no mention of radiation poisoning, i assumed an asteroid as said in the book they were warned but none listened i think
also what does the clocks stopped at 1:17 mean
@@RobertOrwellSandman Multiple strikes would. Also for clocks to stop working implies an EMP which comes from nuclear weapons
@@goober5980 it may be a reference to one clock that survived Hiroshima's nuclear blast, and that stopped exactly at 8:15 AM, when Little Boy was set off on the city's sky.
I agree in that this was an Extinction Level Event asteroid strike sort of like what wiped out the dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 If it were the aftermath of a full on nuke strike, the radiation would be so intense they wouldn’t be able to walk around like that for very long. Everything would be poisoned as well.
Yes that could be the reason for this story
Not if hydrogen bombs we're used .they emit way less radiation then a atom bomb !
I stick with a total nuclear war. The ashy cloudy skies, the charred cities, the widespread winter... Looks a lot like a total nuclear strike to me.
The thing about nuclear winter--whether from bombs or from impact--is that things gradually recover, as they did after the dinosaur ELE, or in fiction as in "The Postman" (the book). But in "The Road," I feel like the uncontrolled, systemic decay of literally every plant and animal is a kluge, a dues ex machina. That's the only flaw I find in the story, which is a great one.
@@manny_freah5148 Hydrogen bombs still need a fission device as a firts stage to reach the conditions of pressure and temperature in order to initiate the fusion reaction. In terms of percentage, the radioactive part is lessend compared to the tremendous heat wave but there is still radioactivity in the fallouts.
Get prepared? This is the result of this politician or that? You didn't understand the movie and probably haven't read McCarthy. The book/movie is a discussion about the purpose in living (struggling) when one knows it ends in death. Suicide is the logical and humane decision, as represented by the mother, but the contradicting survival instinct, represented by the father lives on. The child forces the father to explain the desire to live by identifying whether he was one of the good or the bad people: cannibals. It is the rational versus the selfish instinct (the father leading a boy through a terrible world knowing he would die).
If you want to go political, then think about how both parties exploit our realization of the above.
Devin Booker, I thought it was more of natural disasters, not the result of men going to war. Just saw the movie today.
Devin Booker at this point of civilization. You will realize there are and never were good people or bad people.
You summed it up nicely
We don't know what caused this apocalypse to happen. But that's not the point of the book. The point of the book is that you are only the way you are because of your environment. In the right circumstance, humans are capable of the most evil things in order for survival. That or it's just a story about a boy and a man in a post apocalyptic world, but I think it's much more than that.
Oh and to further foster this point. The child who is pure and untouched by the hand of greed, is basically the only one who will not go to lengths in order for survival if it's against his morals. Hence, "if he is not the word of god, then god never spoke".
I don’t think this is depressing. I see a message of purity. Of the removal of the complexities of existence so we’re left with the essentials. I see a message of human relationships and how, even after everything else is gone, a parent will still do anything to protect their child. It’s a love story.
It’s a love story but it’s still depressing when there’s no food and only cannibalism
Essentials?? No food, no animals, dead flora. The essentials are gone.
"Mostly I worry about food; always food. Food and the cold and our shoes". Ironic that he later takes all of a man's clothing, even his shoes.
That was a lesson for the boy. We shouldn't forgive someone who betrayed us.
Not at all ironic. It's in line with his thinking. If that's something scarce ( that you sorry about a lot), then you take it to aid your survival.
Just finished reading the book, depressing but amazing. Recommended
Viggo is amazing, as is the boy. Hell, even Theron and Duvall are great. One of the best movies of all time by my book.
Even the title of the Last of Us had similarities with The Road.
best video game ever
+David Wright L
David Wright
Watch out for salty Xbox and PC fans that can’t take an opinion
@zig meh. I'm a PC Master Race political officer of the first order, but even I have heard of "The Last of Us" and its magnificence. I think "Last" was inspired by "The Road," I read that somewhere.
@@zigsterabs7439 huge Xbox fan here AND wtf you talkin about, anyone with a brain knows it's an amazing game.
this movie will crush your soul you will need your happy pills after this movie is over. i got the road book version and the dvd version of the road to. in the apocalypse money will be worthless. when the camera zooms in on the money on floor in the apocalypse money will good for fire tinder and that's it
I Loved this movie!
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It’s horrible - the most depressing film I’ve ever seen. Ever. I’ve never seen it since because it’s just too haunting and depressing to endure.
I can bear to witness the imagery in this movie it was to much and I wept like a child....I literally dread to watch it again.
get prepared.. this is your future..and its not far off
+Dan J If we get a look at Detroit, then it's already here
+Dan J So edgy, gtfo
***** Any arguments, or is this just plain stupidity ? I'll go for the later as far as you're concerned moron
***** I've had friends who've lived there, read a ton of stuff on that city, from scholars, historians, etc etc. Guess what buddy ? That's not my fault if you Detroiters, BOTH whites and blacks made this once super wealthy and magnificent city look like a shithole that's not even comparable to Milwaukee. Now instead of tirelessly insulting me, why don't you go and try to fix your city with all the urban blight ? Oh let me guess, that's so much easier to troll on youtube rather than doing anything useful for your long-suffering town ! And I don't quite think I've got anything to learn from a douchebag that uses a rapist's ID to troll !!
***** GET THE FUCK outta here, cos' I'm getting tired of explaining stuff to such an uneducated douchebag you are. And nobody talked to you in the first place, fuck off you little dumbass
Isn't that viggo mortensen?!
Yes it is!
kebabonline Yes, he plays Jesus here.
No that’s Crispin Glover
Aragorn let himself go.
For Frodo. *collapses from starvation*
No he doesn't
I think this movie should be shown in every school across America to show kids what it would really be like in a post-apocalyptic world. The Book of Eli, which came out around the same time, portrays a message of hope amongst all the chaos. The Road doesn't. It's just dark and depressing and probably more realistic.
It breaks my heart to see a Volvo is such condition.
we must never let this happen in real life, unless if it really was caused by a meteor strike, then there's nothing we can do
It was either a meteor impact or a super volcanic eruption
it was most likely a meteor impact @@e9_Tum0r
Ill always remember when the old man said whoever made humanity will find no humanity here no sir those words alone will haunt you!!
I think the father in this novel/movie is kinda similar to Kenny in Telltale's The Walking Dead.
Not much. Twd is very full of life. This one has nothing... But a world withering and people in despair.
One of the saddest movies ever. But it’s also extremely real.
I've watched it once and read the book.
The film was hard to watch especially if you have a son the same age.
One of only movies I dread to watch again....the trees falling down one by one like the Earth's taking one last gasp of breath before it to gives up...*especially when he says each day is getting colder and greyer than the next"....it truly hit me hard.
There is no hope there is no brighter tommorow.
I have watched this film lots of times, excellent.
papa
Annoying as fuck
I think about this movie when I'm eating tiny leftover scraps. I wonder what the very last thing I would eat would be.
This movie was truly to much to witness.....the realism the sobering fact there will be no brighter tommorow there is no hope.
And the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it finally flatlines....the heaviest hitting thing he says is "Each day is growing colder and each day is greyer than the next"....I actually cried during this movie...it was actually to much to handle.
He doesn't know what caused it, or it doesnt matter, and he doesnt know how long its been. Bone chilling
This movie truly had me on the edge of despair I have never felt before.....there is no brighter tommorow the sun shall rise but make no difference....there is no hope.
And the trees falling is like Earth's final gasp before it flatlines and gives up...and when he says "Each day is greyer than the next and it's cold and getting colder" truly broke me.
I love this movie, as much as it is possible to love such a movie.
That first road scene was filmed near windy ridge mt st helens, wa
Oregon is looking like this right now. Seeing footage from it reminded me of The Road...
The book and film are the most deeply sad yet achingly beautiful book and film I have ever read/seen in my entire life
One of the best books ever written IMO
@@anatoldenevers237 Couldn't read it again in a hurry, though. There aren't enough anti-depressants in the world.
This is the aftermath of a meteorite strike, maybe 1 mile in diameter so pretty tiny compared to Chixculub. The nuclear winter and massive tsunamis you see when on the beaches as well as complete collapse of the food chain and endless years of lukewarm darkness.
A nearby gamma-ray burst could sterilise Earth. These bursts of energy are so powerful that they can briefly outshine the rest of the Universe. Fortunately, the chance of one occurring nearby is slim. Beaming with energy: The radiation from gamma-ray bursts is strongly beamed in two opposite directions.
Great movie...Gives great insight into a world we ourselves are too close to experiencing....
The dead yellow Volvo says it all....
Did they film this in Louisville Kentucky in the winter?
This movie broke my heart.
One of the most depressing movies I've ever seen.
I keep thinking about the Gatlinburg fires when I watch this.
This film makes any film with a post-apocalypse, a natural disaster or a complete social decay theme look like In The Night Garden.
it's so cool that australia is about to make the road into a real thing.
everyone in this film still has better skin hygiene than me now
Because they're rich celebs
I just ordered this on DVD. Can't wait to see it.
Can you feel it ? It's coming .
Prepare yourselves, I'm not trying to worry you but world wide something ain't quite right and it's not been right since we came out of lockdown.
Something is different, something is wrong, I don't mean climate or politics though they are maybe a symptom but I mean a thing I can't quite put my finger on.
I can feel it happening, surely I'm not the only one 😓
Storing food may not be such a foolish idea, after all.
Anyone found a scene about the army with the red scarves, or was it omitted from the film?
+Greg B It got omitted , sorry
It was omitted.
Who were they?
So where'd the find drinkable water to keep them going for so long? You can go without food for a while, but not water.
Yes, a major omission no one else seems to have noticed, I agree. Their worries are food, shoes, the cold, and cannibalism in the movie, but water doesn't seem to figure. Other than a can of Coke, and some Jack Daniels in the subterranean shelter, they never seem to drink anything! That aside, this is nevertheless an incredibly powerful film, based on an outstanding novel. Loved both.
There's a scene where the man is boiling and filtering water.
They we're melting snow, then boiled the water and drank it.
@@BintAlAbla1999 in the book they drank cocoa in the mountains, and the man tried to give all of the cocoa to the boy, and just give hot water to himself. Implying they just boil water from the snow/streams.
Man , this is so depressing, such a great movie
Judging by the blasted trees floating in the river, I'd say it was a meteorite. Perhaps Yellowstone supercaldera. Nuclear weapons would not likely be used on remote areas.
It was the feminists
2:28: those pearls and other jewelry scattered on the floor, ashy, dusty, forsaken and forgotten... people used to kill and to die for the amount of money that would allow its owners to afford such fine pieces. Now, the few who survived couldn't care less for them, including any woman who had eventually wore them in a world long gone. The artistry of this scene is beyond description.
@@iamzed3934 as McCarthy points out at the end of the book, this old world was made "of a thing which could not be put back. Not
be made right again".
@@iamzed3934 nature will recover, but human civilization is lost forever, demolished to never be rebuilt again.
@@iamzed3934 there barely are people around. No nation has survived the cataclysm. All the animals and plants died. The financial system has entirely collapsed. Life can thrive again after the soot settles, and maybe even humankind can keep existing after that, but this world we live in, the one which was destroyed in _The Road_ , this world will never be rebuilt again. There simply are not enough people and knowledge left to do so.
you start reading then you think what going on! it's a top 10
The book makes you sit up and wonder what if.....🤔
Read the book in one sitting. I was depressed for four years.
Just from reading the book?
Great book, great movie.
Makes you want to buy more ammo, food and camping gear.
The boy is about 3 years too old for the role and there's too much sunlight, but it's a good adaptation.
ALL WORLD LEADERS - ESPECIALLY THE NUCLEAR POWERS - SHOULD BE FORCED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ! Any "hoorah" military enthusiast who thinks the USA - or anyone - can "win" a nuclear war, should also be forced to watch it.
You should be forced to learn how to read.
halojump123: REALLY ? From a video game "warrior", who has NEVER seen the real horrors of war ? LOL ! Go back to your mama's basement, little wimp, and grow some balls !
Nuclear?? It was caused by a impact from a large space rock. That is the only thing that could cause the kind of conditions that are described in the book and movie..
Life finds a way
I don’t like to think that it could get this bad, if we keep treating the Earth the way we do
The father learns to his boy how he survives in a world without humanity ... and his son teaches him humanity again
At the 2:35 mark, human bones in the garbage can.
I just realize the only car stripped for parts is the Volvo 240 in this scene, must mean there are still some 240's running LOL. guns, ammo, good knife, flash light and solar charger, Firestarter, good boots, good back pack, maybe a trap for a tent and a Volvo 240. Now I am all set for the end of the world.
Well considering the cannibal Truck was a Chevrolet C60 and running driving still. It would be the better choice.
On the upside, commuting to work is a breeze.