Classic Movies #35: The Road
Diving into the bleakest most depressing movie of recent times
It is most certainly one of the most intense and bleakest films we have covered.
My solo MorgCast on the film from a few years ago is here, too.
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I'm with you Morgoth, I hated the movie and also hated the book. Believe it or not the book is even more bleak. There are scenes in it that (thank God) were left out of the movie. I've always thought McCarthy was overrated. Every one of his books are an unending slog of misery, evil and nihilism. People go through all kinds of mental gymnastics to try and wring some message from them, when you could simply read a book that doesn't describe child r- and humans used for livestock, and STILL learn a few lessons about life and humanity.
The post-apocalyptic genre is one of my favorite, but The Road strips away everything that makes it so fascinating. There's no point to any of it, because there's simply no chance the main characters will ever be able to overcome their situation. In the book he describes forest fires stretching across states because all of the plant life has died. All of the fish in the seas are dead. Birds, animals, even bugs have all died. Ok McCarthy great. Thank you for writing an entire novel about a dying world where people are eating each other to survive. He's supposed to be the greatest living American author and I can't think of a greater indictment of the state of our broken culture.
This short clip from the animated show “Smiling Friends” absolutely destroys the anti-natalist and atheist “nothing matters” crowd: https://youtu.be/9ZjLxk0djyE?feature=shared
At 1:18 mark:
*Yelling venomously to the crowd*
“Nothing matters because we’re all going to die someday.”
*Facing a rifle in his face the next moment*
“No,no,no, please don’t kill me. I don’t want to die. Please don’t kill me!”
All these fakers are like that, and if they’re not then it’s just the end of their bloodline and hence the end of their anti-baby doom cult.