no answer

Kattie 2022-03-19 09:01:04

.The whole movie is in dark tones. The father and son have been walking on this road. They have encountered the tragedy of cannibalism, and they have also harvested a lot of canned food that they do not know is stored in water. Hurting others without a choice. In the end, the father could no longer go on, leaving his son to this world that seemed to have no hope.

We don't know when that day will come, or how long we can last in that situation. However, just as my father said, we must be people with the flame of hope in our hearts, until we meet an angel, or become an angel. Maybe the movie didn't want us to lose hope, so the little boy ended up with another family that survived. It was a complete family, dad, mom, brother, sister, and even a dog. I almost wonder how this family survived, do they really exist? Maybe the picture freezes as this angel-like boy walks alone with his father's instructions and all the supplies, and keeps going south. I will feel more credible and more in line with the aesthetics of the film. It is a pity that the director succumbed to the hope of the public and the warmth of the world.

In the face of this film, some people see hope, while others see despair. And my biggest question is that I don't have an answer at all, even after reading a lot of people's analysis...

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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.