Is it proof that the soul is not swallowed up by instinct? Maybe it's just because this persistence makes me feel more at ease.
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just peace of mind
Creola 2022-04-19 09:01:35
"The Road" is not a disaster film, but a philosophical proposition: when the world reaches the end of the world, human beings can no longer abide by the collective survival contract, and the instinct to live is above everything else, so cannibalism has become a survival strategy to prolong life. If you stick to the belief in "goodness" in your heart, refuse to eat people, and walk on the road of poverty and death at the end of the day, what does this belief mean to you?
Is it proof that the soul is not swallowed up by instinct? Maybe it's just because this persistence makes me feel more at ease.
Is it proof that the soul is not swallowed up by instinct? Maybe it's just because this persistence makes me feel more at ease.
Extended Reading
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The Man: The clocks stopped at one seventeen. 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 calender for years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived, and all the crops are long gone. Someday 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.
The Man: 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. 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.
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Wife: My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.