Kindness means having hope.

Tia 2022-04-21 09:01:36

I suddenly want to understand something, it turns out that kindness is hope. It is the "flame" that runs through the whole film in the hearts of the father and son.

Those hunters with guns will hunt other humans, and will naturally eat up their companions when they are no longer companions. They do this because there is only one purpose to live, and that is to live.

Yes, the purpose of living is to live, just to live, no matter what. I don't know if they are still looking forward to the invisible "hope", but I know that for them, the only and most important thing is to live.

The little boy in the film is the target of many criticisms because he is too weak, because he is dragging his feet, because he is always asking silly-looking questions. Are we still good people? Will we always be good people? Will we never eat people?

It doesn't make sense to me to define the people in the film in terms of good people and bad people, or good deeds and bad deeds.

Whether it is good or not, it is a means of survival. It's just that kindness refers to the "public", which means that everyone is well. You can do well yourself. And evil, may be more directed towards oneself.

In fact, no matter how much you say, it can be summed up as a question: Are you willing to do some bad things that temporarily satisfy yourself, but may be tortured for a long time in the future, or would you rather die and insist on something?

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The Road quotes

  • 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.