Very depressing film, with a sense of powerlessness and suffocation

Joy 2022-04-20 09:01:27

I watched it many times, but I put it on hold at the beginning, and I finished it in one breath today. Feeling repressed, fleeing in the face of death, until death. I read one person's comment: Vigo has no armor and holy sword. Like a victim, the only motivation for struggling on the road is to protect his son. Regarding the final outcome, whether the boy was deceived or was taken in by a good-hearted person is a matter of opinion. This is the same as whether the top of the Inception space has stopped in the end. Everyone has their own answer. The man with the gun has no thumb, and he can't hold the shotgun. The close-up of him, in my opinion, implies that he is essentially good-willed, and holds a gun for self-protection. In my world, the boy met a good person, and he had support.

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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.

  • Wife: My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.