In a world where everyone is killing and eating each other, there are those who refuse to be broken by the horrible circumstances they find themselves in. - cg
Kayzukie you missed the point. him trying to "act" trusting isnt anything he would be concerned with in that world. he was direct & to the point. you must be young & need to see him coddle the little kid with smiles into trusting him.
In my opinion, he's speaking to the kid as a man and not as a child. It's a hard world. Once the boy sees the dog he knows he'll be safe with them. If they didn't eat their animal yet, they're one of the good guys.
@@casperado666 the people were locked in that basement as a source of future food. The film does imply that, the book confirms it. I remember reading the book and it haunted me, that scene in particular. then when i watched the movie it was a rare occasion of a film doinv the book perfect justice. Appallingly horrific scene but I think its 1984-esque in how we have to consider such terrible possibilities and try avoid them.
@@hedheb2619 Yeah, but is the family the boy meets in the end the same people as the ones who kept people in the cellar? I don't remember the faces exactly, but i don't think so.
I’ve held this quote in my heart since the first time I saw this movie and read the book with eyes filled with tears. I thought the concept to my nieces and nephew. They carry the torch always.
I have started to use this quote to keep me positive in my life. It isn't the best and deal with shit that makes me depressed, but I think about this quote. I want to pass this on to my boy and girl if I have one, but with a boy I want to. I want him to understand how much a saying like "carrying the fire" can mean to him and the world. The fire inside you always counts no matter where you are in life.
Hey Ryan. I have a 5 yr old son. Our Motto is "We carry the fire". We are the good guys. We help those in need when we can, and ask for help when needed. You carry the fire as well. We are the good guys.
McCarthy talks about carrying the fire in No Country For Old Men. I think it can mean a number of things but definitely what you’re saying, but also the memories and principles of your father (or ancestors). So that’s an excellent tradition to build with your children. The fire of decency, loyalty, and civilization.
I always tell my kid to “keep rowing the boat” sometimes life can be hard to navigate and push back at you but ya gotta keep rowing that motherfuckin boat!
lol are you carrying the fire... you're a bit wierded out ain't ya kid. Funniest lines I've heard in a while. Still as entertaining as I remember it being.
tim3854 I think the boy mean't to say is "Are you carrying a gun?" I think the boy's entire year is that he doesn't know the word "gun" nor The Father never told The Boy what he carries in his hand.
+Gaming_Sarabia67 “Jsarabia124” he meant are you carrying humanity, are you carrying the remnants of a society now lost were people helped one another instead of robbing killing and eating each other
I'd been looking for this movie for a while. Great movie! I live in CA and with all of the wildfires here, the skies look just like this. Very apocalyptic. Tough times for almost everyone. It gets very depressing. But the boy is damn right. As long as you are carrying the fire, or have the will to survive, you WILL SURVIVE. Sad when his dad dies though.
I didn't like how the boy's naivety, unwillingness to kill, and overly trusting attitude is what saved him in the end. Frankly, this nice man could have used much better words to earn the boy's trust. But overall, this is easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. I want to cry every time I watch it.
"I didn't like how the boy's naivety, unwillingness to kill, and overly trusting attitude is what saved him in the end." that's the point of the movie and book. The boy unlike his dad, was really carrying the fire. He never resorted to harming others when it could have advantaged him. He wasn't naive he was hope for his father and the world, and he was him self hopeful, it is better to be that, than not.
@@JohnnyZenith In someway yes, though I think its more about hope, I think the fire represents the desire to continue. The boy has that desire, the father does not unless with the boy.
Bro I’m sorry to tell you this but… the house with the bunker full of food…. It had a hook with a pile of shoes under it. Why would he need another mouth to feed? He need to feed the mouths he already has. The boy got eaten!
After watching this film I wanted to be hopeful about the boy's fate. I wanted to believe he could 'keep carrying the fire' as it were. But his world is dying and there is no amount of fire that will give him a future. The couple he meets at the end both have missing thumbs. (Punishment for cannibalism before the complete breakdown of civilisation) They have been stalking him and his father for some time and knew they were good ppl but yet never reached out. My depressing theory is that they are opportunistic cannibals. They probably use the dog to seek out stragglers to capture and feed to their own kids. There is no one left in that world that hasn't had to done the unthinkable to survive.
Definitely read the book. The author uses a bookended line depicting the Veteran’s (Guy Pearce’s here) actions - drawing a connetion between him and the boys father.
For anyone unsure: We can lay to rest that this is a HAPPY ENDING (as much as is possible). [TL/DR: Please read the book by Cormac McCarthy] If you’ve read the book (absolutely beautiful in language) there is a specific line Cormac McCarthy wrote to prove The Veteran (Guy Pearce’s character) was good. Early in the story, it mentions that the boy’s Father “looked up into the sky, as if there were anything to see” [roughly]. At the very end on the beach, The Veteran (you actually see him do it in the movie too- cool little reference) also looks into the distance - and Cormac repeats the same line as a perfect bookend, verbatim, “…as if there were anything to see”. After everything I read that the boy and his father went through, that line alone brought me to tears. The last lines also depict distant hope in their prose. FEEL GOOD ABOUT THIS ENDING!!!
@@jacks910 Of course! The line is from the perspective of the Boy: All he knows is the world in this dying state, there’s quite literally nothing worth looking at, or to worry about, aside from what is right in front of you. But for both the Father and the Veteran, the deeper implication of scanning the horizon is twofold: they have a greater awareness and scope of experience with approaching danger and, more importantly, they haven’t forgotten the world as it was before - where there was beauty and promise and goodness. That’s the reality of “carrying the fire” for them. Retaining their humanity and not losing grip on what the world could still be, for their children’s sake. This simple act by both men and its mirrored signaling by the line in the book are all we need to know that these men, these fathers, are the same.
This movie and novel were probably the most memorable stories I’ve ever heard. This is how I will imagine the end of the world. Just bleak and grey and collapsed.
great ending, but it annoys me they were following them, and watched the kids dad go swimming in the radioactive west coast waters, which undoubtedly finished him off.
swag ster I think that people are eating and the child is ridiculous to think of swimming in the sea knowing that the planet is totally contaminated other is that they got a store of food and medicine Pope may have survived and those who followed him to contact
AS if he wasn't going to die anyway. He was well aware that he was tubercular/not long for the world. If this part of the movie ruins it for you, i suggest you go back to watching "Transformers" os some other quotidian Holly-wood drecht, it's clearly more your speed.
Plot Twist: The son turned hungry, ate his dad and all this is just imagination. Why is the guy thumb less? Because the kid saw that one the black dude they left naked. Why is there a dog? Because they heard one at the house. Why is there a woman and a girl? Because they saw them get hunted down. All of this family is just in the kid's head. His Popa dying gave him trauma. He probably turned Cannibal too.
I haven't read the book, can someone here tell me if they explained what exactly the society ending disaster was? They never told the movie audience if it was a nuclear war or some other type of natural event.
Its been so long since I read the book ,but I think it was a nuclear war. I do remember the guys wife running to the tub and trying to fill it up with water so they would have something to drink when they saw a flash of light out the window.
Sporkmaker5150 All that's explicitly stated in the book and the movie was that "the clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions." This would discredit the Yellowstone supervolcano interpretation. Your best realistic bet would be a nuclear war, but the radiation would probably kill all of them quickly enough. If you look up 1:17 though, you'll find the biblical verse Revelation (Apocalypse) 1:17 - "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.'" So take that as you will...
I'd consider it a detail of the story. The cataclysm was so great that it wiped out any ability for the survivors to be certain of its cause, only its effects. The only hope The Man and his son have is that there is still life in the ocean, and that the world is still warmer closer to the equator. Something has completely clouded the sky over north America at least as low as the continental 48 states, and as a result all vegetation has died and most wildlife is extinct with the exception of whatever is being fed by humans. This is also why they were afraid when they thought that a dog had found the fallout shelter they were scavenging from.
This is a sad ending , agreat one but sadly too The child do not learned the lesson what her father and the journey give him about the world , trust no one
@@maxg8766 I heard the opposite, since they have a dog and the possibility (and luxury) to feed him, they are cannibals. This ending is not clear, they can be good but they can be bad also. The men also has a finger cut, which means if I remember correctly means an outcast of a post apocalyptic community.
@@legiohistoria6078 He could be missing that thumb because he was the prisoner of a band of cannibals. To remove the thumb is to make it much more difficult for someone to resist or escape captivity. Also, if the goal is to eat the father and/or his child, why wait until the father has died? Eating a grown man, half-starved as he was, is going to provide far more caloric energy than a child. Let's say for the sake of argument that children are somehow more desirable as a source of food than adults in this post-apocalyptic world, why waste time and energy stalking them? It would be trivial for a man with a shotgun and a bandolier of shells to quickly overwhelm and kill one man and his child. A short barrel 12 gauge shotgun is still more than capable of killing someone at quite a distance, and there's no need to risk walking within 10 feet of either of them...
@@legiohistoria6078 also the man who stole the cart had all his fingers on one hand cut off, making it more likely a punishment for stealing. This is a bit of a long shot, but Davis Seaworth from GAme of thrones was a smuggler, and before he pledged his loyalty to Stannis, he had his fingers cut as punishment his past criminal activity.
The end here had me confused. The womans lines especially made me think they're a weird bunch. The way she said they were following them like wth ? Clearly they wanted the father dead. And she sounded creepy with her lines. And when the camera panned to the girl and boy they had this ''fear'' in their eyes like they weren't allowed to speak out even though their eyes were saying ''GTFO kid you done fucked up now''.
My take on the ending is that they were stalking them, waiting for his father to die for an opportunity to take their things, and eat one or both of them. This is a small family that somehow feeds themselves and their dog, which means they are well fed. Based on everything we know about their world, the only people that are well-fed are those that eat people. I think they ate the boy, sadly. Alternatively, if you want to get real weird with it, a lot of people interpret the ending as the little boy having an inner-monologue with his future self. Basically, it's a depiction of the boy's struggle to make a decision to either go off into the world alone, or stay with his father and die. In this scenario, we get a glimpse at what life is like for him if he chooses to leave his father -- he survives, and raises a family. This is evidenced by their coats, and hat, seemingly being the same.
Uh... this isn't the book, this is the movie adaption. Each exist independently as their own canon. Also, there is a great deal of debate as to what is meant to be taken literally, and what is meant to be taken as allegory in the book in the end.
I think that's a glass half-empty/half-full problem. I see the dog as further evidence that this family has taken shortcuts to survive. Being able to feed yourself is difficult, being able to feed an entire family is even more difficult. Feeding a dog, too, on top of all that? That's just not the kind of world this is.
i think the family followed the dad and his son because they realised that in one way he is a good guy,but on the other side he is also so paranoyd through all he has seen that he never would allow them to help them or go "together". but the "mother" was so worried about the kid that she has the plan to follow them till the son needs help at some point in the future.sry for my english but i hope you understand me .
Why would he give the boy a choice whether to go with him or not and tell him that he should stay off the road if he remained? I know its left ambiguous what the ultimate fate of the boy is but if Weyland and Widow Garrett were cannibals then they were playing the long game.
In a world where everyone is killing and eating each other, there are those who refuse to be broken by the horrible circumstances they find themselves in. - cg
Jack Young yep. There were roaming mobs of cannibals and mobs of rapists
Who’s cg?
Guy Pearce killing it in a scene of 2min. That's an actor ladies and gentlemen.
Such a great scene. He holds your gaze, but I didn't miss this time he's missing his left thumb !
That's awesome when Guy Pearce looks off to the side, probably thinking "Take a shot" was a bad choice of words.
To be honest, that guy doesn't put much effort in to make himself very trusting.
he says all the right things as to not get shot though. hes carrying the fire. :O)
Kayzukie you missed the point. him trying to "act" trusting isnt anything he would be concerned with in that world. he was direct & to the point. you must be young & need to see him coddle the little kid with smiles into trusting him.
Whatever you say, man.
In my opinion, he's speaking to the kid as a man and not as a child. It's a hard world. Once the boy sees the dog he knows he'll be safe with them. If they didn't eat their animal yet, they're one of the good guys.
Amen to that! and that's the truth!
I love this movie. My friends hate it for whatever reason, but I enjoy it through the tragic moments and the happy ones. It’s beautiful.
I saw this movie back in 2010 and it's still the most humbling movie I've ever seen
“You just have to take a shot.”
Pun NOT intended lol
One of my favorite scenes ever. Wish it were louder.
Guy Pearce is awesome!
Ariel Jones didnt even know that was him until your comment, even tho i've watched memento 100 times, lol
Ariel Jones yes
Ariel shrone
this is the most touching scene i've seen in years. Just a perfect movie overall.
horrifying
Horrifying. They were cannibals. The kid got eaten, they use the dog to track.
@@Dr.MantisTobogganMD How do you know they were cannibals? Do you know it from the book or as it implied in the movie?
@@casperado666 the people were locked in that basement as a source of future food. The film does imply that, the book confirms it. I remember reading the book and it haunted me, that scene in particular. then when i watched the movie it was a rare occasion of a film doinv the book perfect justice. Appallingly horrific scene but I think its 1984-esque in how we have to consider such terrible possibilities and try avoid them.
@@hedheb2619 Yeah, but is the family the boy meets in the end the same people as the ones who kept people in the cellar? I don't remember the faces exactly, but i don't think so.
just a great scene and end to the movie to never give up! Pretty depressing though!
+Mike Souza watch the mist
***** They kept the kid so he could eventually mate with their daughter to keep hope alive
I’ve held this quote in my heart since the first time I saw this movie and read the book with eyes filled with tears. I thought the concept to my nieces and nephew. They carry the torch always.
What a great movie. Probably the most depressing movie I have ever seen, but so great.
I have started to use this quote to keep me positive in my life. It isn't the best and deal with shit that makes me depressed, but I think about this quote. I want to pass this on to my boy and girl if I have one, but with a boy I want to. I want him to understand how much a saying like "carrying the fire" can mean to him and the world. The fire inside you always counts no matter where you are in life.
Hey Ryan. I have a 5 yr old son. Our Motto is "We carry the fire". We are the good guys. We help those in need when we can, and ask for help when needed. You carry the fire as well. We are the good guys.
i understand
McCarthy talks about carrying the fire in No Country For Old Men. I think it can mean a number of things but definitely what you’re saying, but also the memories and principles of your father (or ancestors). So that’s an excellent tradition to build with your children. The fire of decency, loyalty, and civilization.
You can’t heat an oven with a snowball it’s takes the fire the passion and the love of life to heat that oven inside your chest!
I always tell my kid to “keep rowing the boat” sometimes life can be hard to navigate and push back at you but ya gotta keep rowing that motherfuckin boat!
best damn movie of all time
lol are you carrying the fire... you're a bit wierded out ain't ya kid. Funniest lines I've heard in a while. Still as entertaining as I remember it being.
tim3854 I think the boy mean't to say is "Are you carrying a gun?" I think the boy's entire year is that he doesn't know the word "gun" nor The Father never told The Boy what he carries in his hand.
+Gaming_Sarabia67 “Jsarabia124” he meant are you carrying humanity, are you carrying the remnants of a society now lost were people helped one another instead of robbing killing and eating each other
He's a Generation Y'er that can't live without internet, just looking for a bit of wifi, aka "the fire"
He means the spirit of fire. The fire of humanity.
I'd been looking for this movie for a while. Great movie! I live in CA and with all of the wildfires here, the skies look just like this. Very apocalyptic. Tough times for almost everyone. It gets very depressing. But the boy is damn right. As long as you are carrying the fire, or have the will to survive, you WILL SURVIVE. Sad when his dad dies though.
This is my mantra. "Are you carrying the fire?"
It's a good mantra. I want to be one of the guys. I want to carry the fire.
@@Strideo1 We try.
I swear, Guy Pearce always goes Into weird makeup for his roles
The only ones I can think of are this and Prometheus.
@@TheGreatestVoice1958 this one, Prometheus, Priscilla, Iron Man 3
@@CrodolookslikeFrody In Iron Man he looks just like himself besides the first 5 minutes.
The last time I saw the ending was in the year 2011. The atmosphere almost looked like 'The Book of Eli'
I didn't like how the boy's naivety, unwillingness to kill, and overly trusting attitude is what saved him in the end. Frankly, this nice man could have used much better words to earn the boy's trust. But overall, this is easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. I want to cry every time I watch it.
"I didn't like how the boy's naivety, unwillingness to kill, and overly trusting attitude is what saved him in the end." that's the point of the movie and book. The boy unlike his dad, was really carrying the fire. He never resorted to harming others when it could have advantaged him. He wasn't naive he was hope for his father and the world, and he was him self hopeful, it is better to be that, than not.
@@michaelbalfour3170 The son represents the last purity and goodness.
@@JohnnyZenith In someway yes, though I think its more about hope, I think the fire represents the desire to continue. The boy has that desire, the father does not unless with the boy.
Bro I’m sorry to tell you this but… the house with the bunker full of food…. It had a hook with a pile of shoes under it. Why would he need another mouth to feed? He need to feed the mouths he already has. The boy got eaten!
After watching this film I wanted to be hopeful about the boy's fate. I wanted to believe he could 'keep carrying the fire' as it were. But his world is dying and there is no amount of fire that will give him a future. The couple he meets at the end both have missing thumbs. (Punishment for cannibalism before the complete breakdown of civilisation) They have been stalking him and his father for some time and knew they were good ppl but yet never reached out. My depressing theory is that they are opportunistic cannibals. They probably use the dog to seek out stragglers to capture and feed to their own kids. There is no one left in that world that hasn't had to done the unthinkable to survive.
Completely wrong. They are good. It was confirmed.
Definitely read the book. The author uses a bookended line depicting the Veteran’s (Guy Pearce’s here) actions - drawing a connetion between him and the boys father.
For anyone unsure: We can lay to rest that this is a HAPPY ENDING (as much as is possible).
[TL/DR: Please read the book by Cormac McCarthy]
If you’ve read the book (absolutely beautiful in language) there is a specific line Cormac McCarthy wrote to prove The Veteran (Guy Pearce’s character) was good. Early in the story, it mentions that the boy’s Father “looked up into the sky, as if there were anything to see” [roughly]. At the very end on the beach, The Veteran (you actually see him do it in the movie too- cool little reference) also looks into the distance - and Cormac repeats the same line as a perfect bookend, verbatim, “…as if there were anything to see”. After everything I read that the boy and his father went through, that line alone brought me to tears. The last lines also depict distant hope in their prose.
FEEL GOOD ABOUT THIS ENDING!!!
What does “as if there is anything to see” really mean? I’m still confused can you explain it further?
@@jacks910 Of course! The line is from the perspective of the Boy: All he knows is the world in this dying state, there’s quite literally nothing worth looking at, or to worry about, aside from what is right in front of you. But for both the Father and the Veteran, the deeper implication of scanning the horizon is twofold: they have a greater awareness and scope of experience with approaching danger and, more importantly, they haven’t forgotten the world as it was before - where there was beauty and promise and goodness. That’s the reality of “carrying the fire” for them. Retaining their humanity and not losing grip on what the world could still be, for their children’s sake. This simple act by both men and its mirrored signaling by the line in the book are all we need to know that these men, these fathers, are the same.
This became a documentary about the end of our species and the best Dies The Fire movie we'll ever get.
This movie and novel were probably the most memorable stories I’ve ever heard.
This is how I will imagine the end of the world. Just bleak and grey and collapsed.
Why does this effect me so much. Im so touched.
This is one of those movies I watch multiple times.
Amazing how Guy Pearce took a small role at the end...
You can believe what you want that's why this ending fits, what you think happened echos what you may do in this circumstance.
Guy starred in another depressing post apocalyptic movie called The Rover it's pretty good
Nothing like a cameo with Guy Pearce. Great adaptation
Guy Pearce was awesome here. He had very little screen time, but made a big impression
plot twist, they roasted him over a fire.
I know I ll sound morbid,but family was happy about this boy like for a lunch served😊
obscenely well acted
"the fire" of prometheus
He was just looking for a lighter cos he got tired of having to rub sticks together - fair enough
this is such a shockingly terrifying story. It should possibly be illegal but it's too important. What a horror story
John 3:16
my favorite
Same amazing scene and film
perfect
the fire was burning when they ate the boy
Wow edgy
I love guy Pearce
The kid should take them back where they found all that food.
great ending, but it annoys me they were following them, and watched the kids dad go swimming in the radioactive west coast waters, which undoubtedly finished him off.
how do you know the waters were radioactive?
swag ster because the grid is down for ages, so all the plants mustve melted down.
swag ster I think that people are eating and the child is ridiculous to think of swimming in the sea knowing that the planet is totally contaminated other is that they got a store of food and medicine Pope may have survived and those who followed him to contact
AS if he wasn't going to die anyway. He was well aware that he was tubercular/not long for the world. If this part of the movie ruins it for you, i suggest you go back to watching "Transformers" os some other quotidian Holly-wood drecht, it's clearly more your speed.
Al niño se lo comieron ?
Plot Twist: The son turned hungry, ate his dad and all this is just imagination. Why is the guy thumb less? Because the kid saw that one the black dude they left naked. Why is there a dog? Because they heard one at the house. Why is there a woman and a girl? Because they saw them get hunted down. All of this family is just in the kid's head. His Popa dying gave him trauma. He probably turned Cannibal too.
Cool theory
Someone forgot to link the flame that's why the worlds dying
There is no God anymore, he has left his animal's to fight among their own..
I haven't read the book, can someone here tell me if they explained what exactly the society ending disaster was? They never told the movie audience if it was a nuclear war or some other type of natural event.
it's never mentioned at all. some people say that the movie slightly implies that it was a meteor that caused all of this.
Its been so long since I read the book ,but I think it was a nuclear war. I do remember the guys wife running to the tub and trying to fill it up with water so they would have something to drink when they saw a flash of light out the window.
Sporkmaker5150 All that's explicitly stated in the book and the movie was that "the clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions." This would discredit the Yellowstone supervolcano interpretation. Your best realistic bet would be a nuclear war, but the radiation would probably kill all of them quickly enough. If you look up 1:17 though, you'll find the biblical verse Revelation (Apocalypse) 1:17 - "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.'" So take that as you will...
I'd consider it a detail of the story. The cataclysm was so great that it wiped out any ability for the survivors to be certain of its cause, only its effects. The only hope The Man and his son have is that there is still life in the ocean, and that the world is still warmer closer to the equator. Something has completely clouded the sky over north America at least as low as the continental 48 states, and as a result all vegetation has died and most wildlife is extinct with the exception of whatever is being fed by humans. This is also why they were afraid when they thought that a dog had found the fallout shelter they were scavenging from.
have you read it yet?
This is a sad ending , agreat one but sadly too
The child do not learned the lesson what her father and the journey give him about the world , trust no one
ale moya I believe the kid is alive though, because they have a dog and they didn’t eat it, so they won’t eat him
@@maxg8766 I heard the opposite, since they have a dog and the possibility (and luxury) to feed him, they are cannibals. This ending is not clear, they can be good but they can be bad also. The men also has a finger cut, which means if I remember correctly means an outcast of a post apocalyptic community.
@@legiohistoria6078 He could be missing that thumb because he was the prisoner of a band of cannibals. To remove the thumb is to make it much more difficult for someone to resist or escape captivity. Also, if the goal is to eat the father and/or his child, why wait until the father has died? Eating a grown man, half-starved as he was, is going to provide far more caloric energy than a child. Let's say for the sake of argument that children are somehow more desirable as a source of food than adults in this post-apocalyptic world, why waste time and energy stalking them? It would be trivial for a man with a shotgun and a bandolier of shells to quickly overwhelm and kill one man and his child. A short barrel 12 gauge shotgun is still more than capable of killing someone at quite a distance, and there's no need to risk walking within 10 feet of either of them...
@@legiohistoria6078 also the man who stole the cart had all his fingers on one hand cut off, making it more likely a punishment for stealing.
This is a bit of a long shot, but Davis Seaworth from GAme of thrones was a smuggler, and before he pledged his loyalty to Stannis, he had his fingers cut as punishment his past criminal activity.
Well he's got Extremis does that count?
I want a sequel to this movie!!!!! NOW!!!! please!
Are you carrying the fire?
Plot twist: he eats him that evening
Ahhh come on man! Lmao
Started with the genitalia, testicles are an aphrodisiac.
@@Spacemonkeymojo Wtf is wrong with you?
@@jacks910 you’d be the first to die in an apocalypse.
@@Spacemonkeymojo You’re not gonna survive long in the apocalypse bro, weirdo pedo cannibals will be dealt with swiftly.
Why were they following the boy and his father if they knew he was a good dad? And why are they missing a thumb?
Carrot Top!
The end here had me confused. The womans lines especially made me think they're a weird bunch. The way she said they were following them like wth ? Clearly they wanted the father dead. And she sounded creepy with her lines. And when the camera panned to the girl and boy they had this ''fear'' in their eyes like they weren't allowed to speak out even though their eyes were saying ''GTFO kid you done fucked up now''.
My take on the ending is that they were stalking them, waiting for his father to die for an opportunity to take their things, and eat one or both of them. This is a small family that somehow feeds themselves and their dog, which means they are well fed. Based on everything we know about their world, the only people that are well-fed are those that eat people. I think they ate the boy, sadly.
Alternatively, if you want to get real weird with it, a lot of people interpret the ending as the little boy having an inner-monologue with his future self. Basically, it's a depiction of the boy's struggle to make a decision to either go off into the world alone, or stay with his father and die. In this scenario, we get a glimpse at what life is like for him if he chooses to leave his father -- he survives, and raises a family. This is evidenced by their coats, and hat, seemingly being the same.
deRoyLight Good stuff. Thanks for sharing that.
Uh... this isn't the book, this is the movie adaption. Each exist independently as their own canon. Also, there is a great deal of debate as to what is meant to be taken literally, and what is meant to be taken as allegory in the book in the end.
I think that's a glass half-empty/half-full problem. I see the dog as further evidence that this family has taken shortcuts to survive. Being able to feed yourself is difficult, being able to feed an entire family is even more difficult. Feeding a dog, too, on top of all that? That's just not the kind of world this is.
i think the family followed the dad and his son because they realised that in one way he is a good guy,but on the other side he is also so paranoyd through all he has seen that he never would allow them to help them or go "together". but the "mother" was so worried about the kid that she has the plan to follow them till the son needs help at some point in the future.sry for my english but i hope you understand me .
How bout them " wild fires "
Dating after divorce, tho..
Liesl Weasel 😂😂😂
What carying a fire he meant?
Humanity? Being the good guy?
the fire of love
Heart, he's unbroken.
🖤
So what's with the missing thumbs?
I dono, maybe the rules were different for fashion in the wasteland but that guys looks like a straight up chomo
why does he not have his thumb?
He probably ate it
UNiCuS PrEdaTOR His thumb must've been cut off when it was infected or something. Or he was tortured.
many things but he probably was infected or shotguns... or he was tortured or.. I don't know!... this is survival.
In the book they said he was exiled from a community and that was apart of his punishment.
they eat the boy?*****
they eat the boy?
What?!
they the man and woman, eat the boy?
+Rans Ron No they do not
The last of us movie
I read the book about 5 years ago,but if I do recall,wasn't the "boy" actually a girl
SPOILER!!!
They ate the child...
+Alvaro Calvo El Hardabi Lol it's explained better in the book they don't eat the child
Source:your ass.
omfg nice spoiler
Why would he give the boy a choice whether to go with him or not and tell him that he should stay off the road if he remained? I know its left ambiguous what the ultimate fate of the boy is but if Weyland and Widow Garrett were cannibals then they were playing the long game.
El Cid Troleador probably
Trust me, bro. They ate the boy no doubt about it