Super fun fact. In the group of Cannibals that ride in on the Truck, you can see for a small moment one man hop off the side on the right and kinda smack the car. Long hair. That man is my (sadly) Late Step Father Shaun Rolly. He did a lot of stage and fight choreography, and while growing up he taught me a lot. I still have a tiny scar on my shin from my first day of Live Steel training with broadswords. I was moved back to wood lol. I miss him a lot.
Very dark movie. But if I remember correctly the ending isn't fully hopeless. The sun is starting to penetrate the clouds and I believe they come across a single living bug. Indicating that life might be on the verge of returning.
Yes towards the end of the film there are a couple of tiny indicators that the world is more survivable further to the south. And in the book the last page talks about salmon swimming is a stream that does seem to indicate a return of life. It's a decent video this guy made but I think his interpretation of the end of this film is a bit off the mark.
In the book it seems like it's a nuclear war. When the man sees the bright light he turns on all the faucets. Which is something your supposed to do during a nuclear detonation so that you have uncontaminated water while you wait for radiation to fall. His cough also is indicative of radiation poisoning.
I took it that it was a series of meteor strikes that he mistook for nuclear blasts. Radiation would likely have killed them far more quickly. I believe the illness was lung cancer or some other respiratory illness caused by the sheer amount of ash in the air. The kid's body might be more used to it, having grown up in this environment, but his lifespan is likely reduced from the inhalation.
@@timrubeI like to think it’s a nuclear war because it shows how you can’t win and how horrible life would be to survive it. Plus it would be our own doing and this movie can act as a deterrent, not that our leaders would watch this and suddenly have a heart anyways.
The librarian at my school (way back when) recommended me this book and I read it fully, gave it back to her and told her never to recommend another book like this. The book and the film really broke me
We read this whole book in english lit class in year 9 (UK) so that's like age 13/14. How was that allowed? We sure were one very depressed class that term.
@@EmilyHaaaiiigh we actually didn’t have it as required reading. I had just read so much from the library that the librarian was just like “I don’t typically give this out to younger students but you may like it” and I promised her after the fact I didn’t like it at all lmfao
Yes but too naive , his father repeat thousand time : don't trust anyone! And he directly give confidence to the family 🤦♀️ in fact the end is open we don't know if he will be the food or not.
The boy in this movie is a symbol of a Hollywood clichè. A useless, helpless, weak "damsel in distress", needed only to get the plot going. Surprised he didn't have asthma, autism or nut allergy like they usually do. In reality kids born into hardships, such as famine, war or any hypothetical apocalypse are way stronger, faster, more proficient at hunting and scavenging and are way better at skills learning than their adult counterparts who lived in the commodities and comfort of the °before° life. Not to mention an innate sixth sense that helps them avoid peril at any cost instead of walking into it blindly like a lobotomized sheep. If it wasn't for this Hollywood movie trope this could've been a much more somber, believable experience to watch. I worked in a rehab for young addicts and happened to serve my first sentence in juvenile prison, and i can say that in pop culture kids are not given nearly as much credit as they deserve when it comes to survival of the fittest. TL;DR: This kid would be nowhere as innocent and weak if he was born into a cannibalistic apocalypse. He would be an integral part of it.
I don’t think anything the boy does throughout the movie, except perhaps contemplating suicide, comes out of selfishness. He consistently cares for other people even when his father advices him not to
Yea, not to spoil it for others But the part in the book about the pregnant lady with the two guys and later finding a campfire with baby bones. The book I believe showed the darkest side of humanity
I did a philosophy class and one of the main parts of that class were the different emotions that have been focused on and portrayed in media. The book and the film were something we both focused on just the horrible nature of humanity and also the selfish nature of the father to try to keep some kind of hope and pushing that onto his son.
Man and that convoy of Cannibals are worse in the book. In the movie they’re just men hunting other men for food but in the book they carry pregnant women in chains behind the vehicle and it’s heavily implied that they “farm” the women to eat the children. Truly horrific and poignant.
@@residentkrockhead yea I forgot about that, I knew it was somewhere in the book just couldn't remember where at. And the part where they are camping in the pitch black dark, and can hear someone shuffling around lost looking for who knows what. A truly good book.
the worst scene was the people in the basement. So irritating to see the stupidity of keeping "those food" alive since there are not any feed for them. Any cannibal with the right mind knows skinny starving people does not taste good. Better to butcher immediately and stock up the cold cellar.
I already know that I'm not going to survive a dystopian future, zombies, solar flare, asteroid/comet, or alien invasion. Just take me out in the first wave please! Y'all can have it!
I tell everyone that brags about their bug out bags, I have one too, that if anything happens it will be when we least expect it and be either at work or in a bad traffic jam. Probably get killed on the way to said bug out bag, and whoever gets to raid our places will have a nice goodie bag and weapons, and hopefully will put it to good use. They call me dumb, yet they don't argue it, probably because they know I'm half right
I have a buddy that says if the nukes ever get launched he plans to find a ground zero, bring a comfy lounge chair and cooler, and lie back and watch it detonate.
@@scottys1423 Like that scene in War Games: watch?v=1vmnp7ghGPk&t=80s "I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival."
I put off watching The Road for years because I’d heard how bleak and depressing it was. Once I finally saw it, I found it to be a movie full of the hope and unquestioning love of a father for his son. The man’s decisions and actions culminated in the greatest gift he could have given his boy: a father to protect him, other children to play with, and,most of all, a mother to love him the way he deserved to be loved.
@@maggiesmith856 You know as well as I do, given what was shown in the movie. Also, if those kids were truly theirs and not just kept as eventual meals, what do you think would happen to him too eventually? That is not a happy ending.
The saddest two parts for me in the book and in the movie, are when he takes out the little toys the boy has in his pockets and when he throws away his wallet and leaves his wifes picture there.
Not necessarily. I remember watching the movie a long time ago and thinking that the family at the end could just be full of crap. I did not trust them at all.
@@chuckhoyle1211 i wouldn't say full of crap, but if they ever came to it, they would abandon the boy without a second thought. He isn't their biological child, so they most definitely value their own more. Who knows what happened after that ending
@@chuckhoyle1211 That's your own mentality projecting and not the creators. The fact that they find a beetle shortly before is indicative of life going on.
@@chuckhoyle1211cormac McCarthy wrote a book about a father and a son, dedicated the book to his son, just to have it end with the son eaten. The book is less blunt about the ending, but in the film once the family is introduced, color has returned to the world. The boy switched the black and white blanket over his father with a multi-colored one, and we see red and green where we did not see it before. The tone is warm, as if sunlight is breaking through the ashen skies. We see the children and the dog. The Veteran has a long gun, and a bandolier full of shells. From this evidence alone, we see the family is not starving and they are well defended.
The Road is a masterpiece. Cormac Mcarthy's book is a gut-punch of a read. They aren't even given names, just "the boy" and "the man." No punctuation, no bells and whistles. The sentences and words are as stripped and emaciated as the people and the world they portray.
I read this book and literally could not sleep for days after and then watched the movie. The book is very graphic and got in my head. It made me think that if this was to happen, I want myself and loved ones to just go out as it happens, I don't want to try to survive in such a horrible life.
The scene in the book where they follow the two men and the pregnant woman only to eventually find their camp with the remains of the roasted baby really hit me hard. I had to take a break.
I read that on the way to school in the morning and literally couldn’t think after that. Like fuck I was in middle school reading this because someone said it was good. I remember my mom asking what was wrong in the car and I told her what I read. She was not happy
The thing that surprised me about this movie was how scary it was. I'd kind of come to the conclusion that I was more or less desensitized to horror movies; yet this movie - which did not market itself as a horror - instilled real fear. It wasn't a normal horror movie fear either. It was a sort of real-time, pit in the stomach dread and despair. Aching fear. The monsters were 100% believable because they were 100% human. It was very easy to see myself in the same hopeless position of the father, not just in a hypothetical post apocalyptic scenario, but in real life. Even in peaceful society, the only thing standing between me and a sadistic monster might be being in a dark parking lot at the wrong place and the wrong time. This movie is a lot like watching a real gore video in that it leaves you sad, full of dread, and with 0 consolation that it could "never happen to me". That being said, I liked it.
After hiding from the cannibals all night, they head back to the road and see that the man they shot dead is nothing but a head and a pile of entrails. That scene really fucked me up.
@@scottjacobsen5894 There is a scene where they leave behind the remains after field dressing the body. They have the organs wrapped up in the stomach on the side of the road when they leave.
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fucking facts i haven't seen anybody be able to in deep explain the I spit on your grave series and A Serbian film so well and detailed like this man just takes the damn cake of horror analysis for just being able to watch these movies over and over again to explain it all, like bravo
this movie is heartbreaking, but in a way also a bit wholesome. the soda, night in the bunker, and the family prove that even is the worst of possible times, there can still be light.
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. It's relentless in it bleakness and its only for one glimmer of hope that prevents it from being utterly depressing. I read the book after watching the movie and realised the filmmakers thankfully hadn't made it as grim as it could have been. Some parts of the book are unbearable to read, especially the guy who tries to steal from them.
For those that haven't read the book, it mentions at the end how the woman in the group encourages him to pray, and how even though he talks to his father instead of God she's ok with it. He very clearly isn't killed by them in the book, so it's safe to say that they are good people and not cannibals.
@@Mommacoconutz I always thought they were good people because they have a dog. Figured if they didn't love it they would've eaten it long before now. Without any sentimental attachment, that dog is just another mouth to feed.
The Road is my favorite book. While I think this is a great review in regards to the movie, and I'm not so much of a snob that I can't recognize that it is good in its own right, you made me realize what separates the two. The book is soul sucking but it shows you that fear and asks "whu are you sad? Because the boy will never know the happiness you know of in our world? Because life is different? Life is always different. You don't need to be afraid. You just need to keep living."
I'd read the book before I'd seen the movie. I've never read a more heart-wrenchingly raw hopeless story written in a such a way since, it was something that stayed with me. Absolutely deserving of its recognition!
The father reminds me of Rick Grimes, his love of his family and his son keeps him going and doing brutal things to ensure his family survives no matter how much it hurts him. Tho, the walking dead is honestly more depressing, as Rick fails in the end and everything he did was in vain. This is just more bleak, but it does gave a hopeful ending, as if you find one group of good people, that means theres more good people. Also I feel that their world will eventually reach a point where it doesnt get worse but also doesnt get better and thats when people will be able to find more good people and build some form of settlements.
I realize this is a year + later, but TWD wad screwed by it’s showrunners. Apparently AMC was always extremely scummy behind the scenes. They killed Carl because the actor was turning 18 and his pay would have increased a lot. That’s not even scratching the surface. They completely blew it. TWD was absolutely huge for a while, for it to become that bad and lose that many viewers, it’s insane.
@@sui1162 I mean, as far as I can tell Scott was definitely a part of the problem. Essentially the face for all of the scumminess that went on behind the scenes. Look into it if you’re interested, I never knew just how bad amc actually was until digging into it recently. It really explains how TWD went from being almost as big as Star Wars to being pretty much forgotten about in just a handful of years.
Read the book in 9th grade, i was already opened to suffering and the book was a great way to spark up my brain to think about human nature and not get caught up in it if i didnt have to
Wow, you posted this on my birthday, and I didn't request it, and I didn't realize it was exactly what I wanted. So thanks! Different from your typical content too, I love the choice. Keep them coming!
The boy should take them straight back to the bunker then since it seems like it was them that triggered the leaving. There should still be a good amount of food to load up with more people to spread the weight amongst
Why don't any of them try to swim across the water to see what's on the other side , i thought that was the whole point of going towards the coast? or is that hopeless.
Read the book. Cried. Watched the movie after and was inconsolable, it was such a well made movie, and the book was so well written the author really knew how to cause heart ache for fictional characters
If you were inconsolable after watching a movie, you need to get the word "Wolf" out of your name. Wolves are not fuzzy little puppy dogs. They are toughass creatures who live in brutality day-by-day by killing others by _disassembling_ them alive using their teeth that tear flesh and crush bone. They walk the BLOODY path. Felines at least asphyxiate before they eat you. Canis Lupis start eating you alive. You might want to get rid of that name.
One of the first movies that didn’t demonize the other people as villains or monsters because the father is also just as capable of committing terrible things in order to survive. This world was just so bleak and honestly brutal.
This is one of the more accurate depictions of how the end of days would play out. Brutal, violent and no the average guy isn't rambo and can't kill everyone he runs into. They really capture the fear and dread a parent would feel having such a young child in such a messed up world.
i remember watching this movie for the first time when i was very young with my family and the scene where the man takes their food and they go back get it and make him take his clothes off always got to me; really shows the effects of humanity when in survival mode and when pushed to their limits
Cormack McCarthy knows how to tell a tale. This movie is the mirror of The Mist. The Mist warns you about giving up hope. The Road warns you about holding onto it.
If you pay close attention, you may notice several of the characters have had the top digits of their thumbs removed. This isnt described in the movie, but in the book, it indicates that these characters had betrayed or abandoned a gang of sorts some time in the past.
Found this channel a few days ago and literally binged the lot. TH-cam open your eyes and fix that algorithm Big Will should have a gold plaque by now. Keep it coming I watched the house that jack built after your video and honestly blew my mind
In the book it describes the man that finds the boy at the end. Something like 'the cartridges around his waist were hand reloaded and sealed with candle wax' (not a direct quote) I always loved that delicious little detail!
This was one of those movies that I watched on an off chance in my townhouse in college one night at 2am, and it really bothered me. Some of the scenes have lived rent free in my mind for 12+ years after. A truly haunting portrayal of the horrors that would accompany the utter collapse of society.
I have watched this movie a long time ago, when I still wasn't married, nor had any children. It was scary even then, but now when I have a son who is maybe a few years younger than a movie protagonist, I just can't watch this! I tried rewatching The Road, but I can't do it, it's just too depressing.
When he said it was the family from the bunker I thought, "Uh oh, twist ending. They saw how horrible his father was in the past few days and wanted revenge for them stealing the food"
At the 10:37 mark, all the food labels shown are backwards. Why is the footage shown in mirror image? Is it for copyright purposes? Your accent makes me smile. Words like "South" are spoken by the you as "Souff". Nevertheless, I enjoyed your movie recap. Keep it coming.
I agree with the pesimistic take on the ending. In a way, it`s very similar to the ending of Threads. People starting to get born isn`t a sign of things getting better, on the contrary. The final shot makes it very clear that there in no doubt regarding the future of humanity. In a similar fashion, I just can`t see the a world depicted like this to ever recover. Depressing movie, definitely.
The first and only time I’ve ever watched this movie I was in my early twenties. Maybe even in my teens still… I can’t remember. I thought it was a depressing movie but the magnitude of it never hit me because I was so young and inexperienced. Now that I’m almost 40 and a father of two young boys, I know I will never watch this movie again.
I've seen alot of disturbing movies as I like horror but to this day this is the only one that made me cry, that ending that struggle after everything, and i was at a place in my life at that time where all i wanted in the entire world was time with my dad so watching this at that time really did both scare and sadden me, lol when something hits you like that you know you are watching a masterpiece of a film. no matter how bad things get try to be the one to carry the fire.
I think, the ending of the movie is incredibly heart-warming after you've progressed through 98% of the book with little to no glimpses of hope. There is a hope in the end. And the message is that there's still something left from human empathy even in this apocalyptic world.
I've watch a lot of your videos recently starting from the recent and going backwards and none have actually made me stop, and see really heartache brutality under the story. I've never seen this movie and I am thankful I haven't after watching this... This film is a true heartache just watching you narrate it. It weaves in hope, but under that hope is the sad reality of death and what becomes of your family you've put so much of you life and actions into protecting...
I hate the fact that the man was urging the boy to continue on the road...alone, after he died. That boy had no chance in that world, he was far too hopeful and trusting of strangers. The horrible fate that would've befell him is terrifying to imagine
The film is somehow toned down compared to the book. In the book, some cannibals are keeping pregnant slaves with the intent to eat the babies. The family the boy meets at the end is so significant because it has CHILDREN in a world where baby-eating is a common occurrence. Children are the future so the husband and wife have hope for their kids.
The family gives me the creeps. I don't know if I trust them.. the following them for day's came over a bit weird. It didn't give me much hope for the boy but I suppose that there was no hope left either way.
Understandable on both counts. You likely didn't trust them because the entire movie gave you no reason to trust anyone, lol, yet following someone for days on end to see what kind of people they'd be--raising a young boy and all--is *exactly* how you'd best approach someone new. How people act when they don't know you have eyes on them is more telling of who they actually are rather than who they could be pretending to be to your face.
I remember watching this when I was just a kid and I cried my eyes out at just the shear brutality of the world in the road. It really struck a chord with me at such a young age
Ive seen The Road many times but have never noticed the figures in the building at 7:35, in the far right. Maybe just rubble, but I cant seem to find anything talking about it behind the scenes or if there was an intention to those "figures".
As a father... I put off reading this book... and for good reason: *"I LITERALLY SOBBED"* throughout the entirety of the book. Thinking about the abysmal future that my children would have to face... and the lives that they would never have the chance to live... *"SOBBED!!!"* (Great Author)
Im a US Marine, I have the training to protect myself and survive as long as I can stand and fight, and I will fight to protect myself (currently on probation for defending myself against homeless junkies who attacked me with a pipe)...but it wasnt until I had daughter that I finally learned what it was to truly love someone, to love my child. (I was physically and emotionally abused alot as a child, no friends until high school, naive and trusting of the wrong people, roofied and raped at 19, abandoned and outcast by "family" as an adult) When I watched this movie and even now this summary It brings tears to my eyes....I can't imagine the horrors that befall people in good times let alone a situation like this. I don't know how I would prepare my daughter for such a life if this happened. I dont know if I could trust anybody even though I would try to help people like the other family with dog in the film. This movie hurt my heart, makes me think hard about the future.....
@@reycesarcarino4653 yup. On top of that I was told by police I need to move to a different neighborhood because I "don't fit the description of locals" "move someplace where you fit in"
I love scarcity-starvation food porn in movies. Like that scene in Soylent Green where Charleton Heston where he brings home ultra rare food pike lettuce, apples, and even BEEF and booze that he stole from the apartment of an uber rich murder victim that he is investigating as a cop. Similarly, there is the fully stocked hidden food depot and.... EMBARRASSMENT. Of. Canned. Pear. RICHES! I still can't believe Coca-Cola paid for product placement in a movie as horrific as this one. Maybe it went SOMETHING like THIS: "The world may be over. You may be starving and considering eating Chuck and his annoying pet ferret in 2b. But you can STILL enjoy an irradiated lukewarm but refreshing COCA-COLA!"
oh my, your comment made me remember a video that I saw about that scene lmao th-cam.com/video/TiYeFSu5GGE/w-d-xo.html for a movie so depressing, that made me bust a gut
It's been more than 15 years since I read the book. I still haven't recovered from that scene where he goes down into the basement to find those feral amputies. Gosh, so haunting.
This was one of the most boring, brutal films I'd seen. Extremely depressing and I felt cold the whole time; watching them struggle in the freezing temperature was awful. The human behaviour in this film was worse than animal behaviour, as am quite sure no animal would behave so savagely towards its own species. Love the detailed description in this video. Than you.
Really? You're sure no animal would act so savagely in a situation like this? I think this is just how all animals react under extreme stress. Most animals have a will to survive that's bigger than their moral compass
@@chimchu3232 True that, this guy's as pretentious as only man being capable of doing horrible messed up sht to other living beings, like this dude forgot cats of all sizes enjoy playing with their kills no matter its age or animals of the same species killing eachother over mates
(spoiler) In the book it is made clear that the man wants to die, but pushes on to try to save his son. The book is very sad, but I think that it has a happy ending. Through the whole book the man and his son are looking for the good guys, which they find eventually eventhough the man dies before realizing this. He dies, but his son is with the good guys. So i would say they succeeded, and if they are good guys, who says there aren't more?
I have seen this movie just once, before my son was born. I remember how touched I was, I felt really miserable and sad after seeing it. Now being a father myself, I wanted to see it again from my new perspective, but I just don't dare. Horrible and grim reminder of what might happen, especially having in mind the current situation in the world and all those threats of nuclear attack from the Russian side. Really depresing, and disturbingly realistic...
The book is ever darker than the movie. There are scenes where a pregnant woman eats the child when she gave birth. Additionally, the guy they leave naked in the street had one of his hands melted together which was a punishment from his previous group.
For most of us, the following would be realistically accurate. 1) you'd drink from a dirty water source and end up dying that way. 2) suicide or murdered. Ultimately, most people wouldn't eat human flesh. Even in this scenario its such a taboo that its up there with incest. Maybe if it was paired with a nice salad and a glass of pinot.. but that'd be pushing it.
then you under estimate not just the Human, but your own inherent determination to not be starving anymore.... I assume you have never truly like really been starving....
@@ffejpsycho not really, if there is no food, you can't eat. Eat bad food,you die. Drink bad water, get sick and eventually die. Its not under estimating when it's fact.
My wife and I don't plan to make it through an apocalypse. We have no desire to spend 10 to 30 years living through hell on earth, waiting for things to improve. Not when we have a beautiful afterlife together lined up. I'm prepared for all sorts of different, non-world ending disasters. War, famine, several natural disasters. But nuclear winter? The breakdown of the ecosystem? Nope, we refuse.
13:43 "Father reacts harshly purely for revenge" COMPLETELY DISAGREE! 1-Man left THEM for dead by takin food. 2-Father's dying and havin man capable of following them to KILL em both ISN'T an option.. Father should've KILLED man while he had upper hand. Scene is REMINISCENT OF TOM CRUISE in War of The Worlds ...when Tom kills Tim Robbins for bein too loud/drawing attention from Aliens; probably most powerful scene in the film... along with the one where Tom's character couldn't noremember a lullaby to sing to his daughter to put hurt at easy... so sings the oldie "Lil Douce Coupe".... DAMN Tom Cruise is a good actor LOL! ..
I always assumed the family ate him or sold him later. They were intentionally pursuing a failing old guy and his kid who were loaded down carrying something. That's straight up predatory type behavior in that kind of scenario.
True. Why would the family spend several days tailing them and then wait until the father is dead until they approach, when the whole point is that they are concerned for their safety? Doesn’t make sense
The father was very sick. They (the family) could've easily taken him. No need to follow them for days, just to kidnap or eat the son. Their motives were good. No way the father would've willingly let his son go with them, even though he knew he was dying. Nor would the kid had wanted to leave the father while he was still alive. They had to wait for him to die.
@@daniellevaughn4598 Still incredibly odd to tail a group of people for literal days un a world where meeting the wrong people can mean death. They waited for the father to die to make their presence known? What about when the boy was sleeping and they were robbed? This is either really contrived, or they are horrible people luring the boy into a false hope
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The Road was a great movie.
I think Viggo Mortensen is one of the best actors alive.
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Super fun fact.
In the group of Cannibals that ride in on the Truck, you can see for a small moment one man hop off the side on the right and kinda smack the car. Long hair.
That man is my (sadly) Late Step Father Shaun Rolly.
He did a lot of stage and fight choreography, and while growing up he taught me a lot. I still have a tiny scar on my shin from my first day of Live Steel training with broadswords.
I was moved back to wood lol.
I miss him a lot.
I heard his story very depressing,
Mom
@@kiobio7311 huh?
@@raizenr2387 mom
@@kiobio7311 Why are you saying Mom?
Very dark movie. But if I remember correctly the ending isn't fully hopeless. The sun is starting to penetrate the clouds and I believe they come across a single living bug. Indicating that life might be on the verge of returning.
Grim dark you mean
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@@christopherseat9871 Im not sure but this might be a rickroll
@@AverageSealEnjoyer69 I am going to research...if I may??? FAIR ENOUGH!!!
Yes towards the end of the film there are a couple of tiny indicators that the world is more survivable further to the south.
And in the book the last page talks about salmon swimming is a stream that does seem to indicate a return of life.
It's a decent video this guy made but I think his interpretation of the end of this film is a bit off the mark.
I tried ecstacy in 2010 and when the depression hit me a day later, I chose to watch this movie. Genius idea.
😂 Awful
Sorry lol, but this is a great story haha! Glad you're still with us.
LMAO dude that's a horrible idea butba great story 😂
The come down from ecstacy isn't even remotely similar to depression you absolute degenerate!
Jesus fuck hahahahhahah. Maybe the worst idea ever
In the book it seems like it's a nuclear war. When the man sees the bright light he turns on all the faucets. Which is something your supposed to do during a nuclear detonation so that you have uncontaminated water while you wait for radiation to fall. His cough also is indicative of radiation poisoning.
I took it that it was a series of meteor strikes that he mistook for nuclear blasts. Radiation would likely have killed them far more quickly. I believe the illness was lung cancer or some other respiratory illness caused by the sheer amount of ash in the air. The kid's body might be more used to it, having grown up in this environment, but his lifespan is likely reduced from the inhalation.
Which could explain the damaged environment
Felt to me more like TB and the earthquakes, wildfires, and cold temps imply mega volcanos
It's never specifically said what it is. As for filling the tub, that's something you do in any emergency where the power and water might go off.
@@timrubeI like to think it’s a nuclear war because it shows how you can’t win and how horrible life would be to survive it. Plus it would be our own doing and this movie can act as a deterrent, not that our leaders would watch this and suddenly have a heart anyways.
The librarian at my school (way back when) recommended me this book and I read it fully, gave it back to her and told her never to recommend another book like this. The book and the film really broke me
We read this whole book in english lit class in year 9 (UK) so that's like age 13/14. How was that allowed? We sure were one very depressed class that term.
@@EmilyHaaaiiigh we actually didn’t have it as required reading. I had just read so much from the library that the librarian was just like “I don’t typically give this out to younger students but you may like it” and I promised her after the fact I didn’t like it at all lmfao
@@EmilyHaaaiiigh wtf
@@akiko3688 I know, gnarly. Y'all thought of mice and men was bad
Ok soyboy. Did she laugh
I wouldn't call the boy a symbol of hope. I would call him a symbol of innocence.
for a father it would be his input of innocence in the world that would give one hope in the future
Yes but too naive , his father repeat thousand time : don't trust anyone! And he directly give confidence to the family 🤦♀️ in fact the end is open we don't know if he will be the food or not.
The boy in this movie is a symbol of a Hollywood clichè. A useless, helpless, weak "damsel in distress", needed only to get the plot going. Surprised he didn't have asthma, autism or nut allergy like they usually do. In reality kids born into hardships, such as famine, war or any hypothetical apocalypse are way stronger, faster, more proficient at hunting and scavenging and are way better at skills learning than their adult counterparts who lived in the commodities and comfort of the °before° life. Not to mention an innate sixth sense that helps them avoid peril at any cost instead of walking into it blindly like a lobotomized sheep.
If it wasn't for this Hollywood movie trope this could've been a much more somber, believable experience to watch.
I worked in a rehab for young addicts and happened to serve my first sentence in juvenile prison, and i can say that in pop culture kids are not given nearly as much credit as they deserve when it comes to survival of the fittest.
TL;DR: This kid would be nowhere as innocent and weak if he was born into a cannibalistic apocalypse. He would be an integral part of it.
@@mjmank4475 Thankfully you've noticed it too. Absurd behavior for someone born into an apocalypse.
I don’t think anything the boy does throughout the movie, except perhaps contemplating suicide, comes out of selfishness. He consistently cares for other people even when his father advices him not to
Still doesn't top the emotional brutality of the book. God, that thing made me question if living is even worth it.
Yea, not to spoil it for others
But the part in the book about the pregnant lady with the two guys and later finding a campfire with baby bones. The book I believe showed the darkest side of humanity
I did a philosophy class and one of the main parts of that class were the different emotions that have been focused on and portrayed in media. The book and the film were something we both focused on just the horrible nature of humanity and also the selfish nature of the father to try to keep some kind of hope and pushing that onto his son.
Man and that convoy of Cannibals are worse in the book. In the movie they’re just men hunting other men for food but in the book they carry pregnant women in chains behind the vehicle and it’s heavily implied that they “farm” the women to eat the children. Truly horrific and poignant.
@@residentkrockhead yea I forgot about that, I knew it was somewhere in the book just couldn't remember where at. And the part where they are camping in the pitch black dark, and can hear someone shuffling around lost looking for who knows what. A truly good book.
my mother read the book and said it was far worse than movie and so do several other people, ngl im really tempted to read it now.
For me the worst scene was when they heard and then saw the woman and the boy running from the cannibals and could do nothing to save them.
I agree. The chants they were yelling as they chased them were so unsettling
@@XYouVandal And finding those people in the cellar and not saving them for fear of being caught.
Man in the book they find a baby cooking on a spit i’m glad that wasn’t shown.
@@spartankelly392 I cant blame the wife for her choice.
the worst scene was the people in the basement. So irritating to see the stupidity of keeping "those food" alive since there are not any feed for them. Any cannibal with the right mind knows skinny starving people does not taste good. Better to butcher immediately and stock up the cold cellar.
I already know that I'm not going to survive a dystopian future, zombies, solar flare, asteroid/comet, or alien invasion.
Just take me out in the first wave please!
Y'all can have it!
This is like Battle Royale movie but darker and creepier with the thoughts of everyone is dangerous
I tell everyone that brags about their bug out bags, I have one too, that if anything happens it will be when we least expect it and be either at work or in a bad traffic jam. Probably get killed on the way to said bug out bag, and whoever gets to raid our places will have a nice goodie bag and weapons, and hopefully will put it to good use. They call me dumb, yet they don't argue it, probably because they know I'm half right
I have a buddy that says if the nukes ever get launched he plans to find a ground zero, bring a comfy lounge chair and cooler, and lie back and watch it detonate.
@@scottys1423
Tell him go to the closest major city or military base.
he'll be covered
@@scottys1423 Like that scene in War Games:
watch?v=1vmnp7ghGPk&t=80s
"I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival."
I put off watching The Road for years because I’d heard how bleak and depressing it was. Once I finally saw it, I found it to be a movie full of the hope and unquestioning love of a father for his son.
The man’s decisions and actions culminated in the greatest gift he could have given his boy: a father to protect him, other children to play with, and,most of all, a mother to love him the way he deserved to be loved.
Yeah, it's actually not that depressing of a movie. It's dark, very dark, but there is a lot of hope and love as well.
How dare you leave out the REAL best part! MANS BEST FRIEND. THE CUTE ASS LIL PUPPY
Perspective is everything
I know it is supposed to be a happy ending, but I can't help wondering how those people keep that dog fed.
@@maggiesmith856 You know as well as I do, given what was shown in the movie. Also, if those kids were truly theirs and not just kept as eventual meals, what do you think would happen to him too eventually? That is not a happy ending.
The saddest two parts for me in the book and in the movie, are when he takes out the little toys the boy has in his pockets and when he throws away his wallet and leaves his wifes picture there.
Man your cool you have a timer for when your sponsorship ends. Keep that up pls.
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@Island Mike oh and basic*
@Island Mike dude who tf cares go be the teacher no one likes instead of bein a nuisance on here
Duuuude for real right? I wonder how he does that, what with sponsor terms and conditions
“Man your cool you”? How does someone man their cool you?
Man that was gut wrenching, especially the dude that stole their things
yeah i felt bad for him, even thou he stole food and everything. In times like this, humans starts to act like animals.
RIP Michael K. Williams
The actor goerge floyded himself a year ago
@@CaptainMartinWalker he died by an overdose, show some respect
@@starwarsroo2448 just like goerge floyd. Hence why I put that in. He floyded himself, niqqa
I'm so glad this depressing mess of a movie ends on a hopeful note.
Not necessarily. I remember watching the movie a long time ago and thinking that the family at the end could just be full of crap. I did not trust them at all.
@breaking the 4th wall like the world is depressing
@@chuckhoyle1211 i wouldn't say full of crap, but if they ever came to it, they would abandon the boy without a second thought. He isn't their biological child, so they most definitely value their own more. Who knows what happened after that ending
@@chuckhoyle1211 That's your own mentality projecting and not the creators. The fact that they find a beetle shortly before is indicative of life going on.
@@chuckhoyle1211cormac McCarthy wrote a book about a father and a son, dedicated the book to his son, just to have it end with the son eaten.
The book is less blunt about the ending, but in the film once the family is introduced, color has returned to the world. The boy switched the black and white blanket over his father with a multi-colored one, and we see red and green where we did not see it before. The tone is warm, as if sunlight is breaking through the ashen skies. We see the children and the dog. The Veteran has a long gun, and a bandolier full of shells. From this evidence alone, we see the family is not starving and they are well defended.
The Road is a masterpiece. Cormac Mcarthy's book is a gut-punch of a read. They aren't even given names, just "the boy" and "the man." No punctuation, no bells and whistles. The sentences and words are as stripped and emaciated as the people and the world they portray.
I read this book and literally could not sleep for days after and then watched the movie. The book is very graphic and got in my head. It made me think that if this was to happen, I want myself and loved ones to just go out as it happens, I don't want to try to survive in such a horrible life.
The book wrecked me. First time I've ever cried reading a book. I was a mess towards the end. Jesus.
read the book a child called it ....
The scene in the book where they follow the two men and the pregnant woman only to eventually find their camp with the remains of the roasted baby really hit me hard. I had to take a break.
That part fucked me up
I read that on the way to school in the morning and literally couldn’t think after that. Like fuck I was in middle school reading this because someone said it was good. I remember my mom asking what was wrong in the car and I told her what I read. She was not happy
Man Aragorn sure has taken a beating while ruling minas tirith and man.
This would be the fate of middle earth, if Sauron won the war.
The thing that surprised me about this movie was how scary it was. I'd kind of come to the conclusion that I was more or less desensitized to horror movies; yet this movie - which did not market itself as a horror - instilled real fear. It wasn't a normal horror movie fear either. It was a sort of real-time, pit in the stomach dread and despair. Aching fear. The monsters were 100% believable because they were 100% human. It was very easy to see myself in the same hopeless position of the father, not just in a hypothetical post apocalyptic scenario, but in real life. Even in peaceful society, the only thing standing between me and a sadistic monster might be being in a dark parking lot at the wrong place and the wrong time. This movie is a lot like watching a real gore video in that it leaves you sad, full of dread, and with 0 consolation that it could "never happen to me".
That being said, I liked it.
After hiding from the cannibals all night, they head back to the road and see that the man they shot dead is nothing but a head and a pile of entrails.
That scene really fucked me up.
They reeeeally should've added that scene in the movie, not that I liked it but it adds so much to the feeling of utter depravity
@@scottjacobsen5894
There is a scene where they leave behind the remains after field dressing the body.
They have the organs wrapped up in the stomach on the side of the road when they leave.
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fucking facts i haven't seen anybody be able to in deep explain the I spit on your grave series and A Serbian film so well and detailed like this man just takes the damn cake of horror analysis for just being able to watch these movies over and over again to explain it all, like bravo
Now that im a mum my very worst fear is that my child would end up alone and afraid, so this really hit me hard.
this movie is heartbreaking, but in a way also a bit wholesome. the soda, night in the bunker, and the family prove that even is the worst of possible times, there can still be light.
Maybe just enough to remind you how bad the pitch black dark is, but maybe not.
@@skillzorz101You would not survive. You need to touch grass
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. It's relentless in it bleakness and its only for one glimmer of hope that prevents it from being utterly depressing. I read the book after watching the movie and realised the filmmakers thankfully hadn't made it as grim as it could have been. Some parts of the book are unbearable to read, especially the guy who tries to steal from them.
Could you go into further detail about the "barely readable" parts ? I'm interested but don't want to invest a lot of time reading the entire book.
@@Deavhrmordhau well there is a baby being roasted on a spit in the book
@@Deavhrmordhauunbearable to read /= unreadable
It’s much darker and more detailed, not difficult to read syntax wise
I read the book and it almost as sad and depressing as the movie.
its even worse, its far more disturbing than the film
For those that haven't read the book, it mentions at the end how the woman in the group encourages him to pray, and how even though he talks to his father instead of God she's ok with it. He very clearly isn't killed by them in the book, so it's safe to say that they are good people and not cannibals.
Thank you for clarifying this. I was traumatized by this movie and that last scene worried me.
@@Mommacoconutz I always thought they were good people because they have a dog. Figured if they didn't love it they would've eaten it long before now. Without any sentimental attachment, that dog is just another mouth to feed.
The Road is my favorite book. While I think this is a great review in regards to the movie, and I'm not so much of a snob that I can't recognize that it is good in its own right, you made me realize what separates the two. The book is soul sucking but it shows you that fear and asks "whu are you sad? Because the boy will never know the happiness you know of in our world? Because life is different? Life is always different. You don't need to be afraid. You just need to keep living."
I am so happy you got sponsered again 👍🏻
I'd read the book before I'd seen the movie. I've never read a more heart-wrenchingly raw hopeless story written in a such a way since, it was something that stayed with me. Absolutely deserving of its recognition!
The father reminds me of Rick Grimes, his love of his family and his son keeps him going and doing brutal things to ensure his family survives no matter how much it hurts him. Tho, the walking dead is honestly more depressing, as Rick fails in the end and everything he did was in vain. This is just more bleak, but it does gave a hopeful ending, as if you find one group of good people, that means theres more good people. Also I feel that their world will eventually reach a point where it doesnt get worse but also doesnt get better and thats when people will be able to find more good people and build some form of settlements.
The comic of TWD is a lot more hopeful as Rick succeeds and rebuilds society on a small scale
The TV show is bleaker. But blame scott pimple for that.
I realize this is a year + later, but TWD wad screwed by it’s showrunners. Apparently AMC was always extremely scummy behind the scenes. They killed Carl because the actor was turning 18 and his pay would have increased a lot. That’s not even scratching the surface. They completely blew it. TWD was absolutely huge for a while, for it to become that bad and lose that many viewers, it’s insane.
Yeah, I dont blame scott anymore. He did the best with what he was given and honestly I dont think it could have been done a better way.
@@sui1162 I mean, as far as I can tell Scott was definitely a part of the problem. Essentially the face for all of the scumminess that went on behind the scenes. Look into it if you’re interested, I never knew just how bad amc actually was until digging into it recently. It really explains how TWD went from being almost as big as Star Wars to being pretty much forgotten about in just a handful of years.
Read the book in 9th grade, i was already opened to suffering and the book was a great way to spark up my brain to think about human nature and not get caught up in it if i didnt have to
Wow, you posted this on my birthday, and I didn't request it, and I didn't realize it was exactly what I wanted. So thanks! Different from your typical content too, I love the choice. Keep them coming!
Late happy birthday bro
The boy should take them straight back to the bunker then since it seems like it was them that triggered the leaving. There should still be a good amount of food to load up with more people to spread the weight amongst
That could be a treacherous walk back. They could easily get killed by marauders. Best to keep moving.
Why don't any of them try to swim across the water to see what's on the other side , i thought that was the whole point of going towards the coast? or is that hopeless.
@@gemstar7286 seems hopeless to try to swim across an ocean my guy
@@gemstar7286 Easy way to die of hypothermia.
@@galenbaker4526 You have to try something though ? 🤷♀️.
I watch big will to Understand what imma add to my collection of films to binge
Read the book. Cried. Watched the movie after and was inconsolable, it was such a well made movie, and the book was so well written the author really knew how to cause heart ache for fictional characters
If you were inconsolable after watching a movie, you need to get the word "Wolf" out of your name. Wolves are not fuzzy little puppy dogs. They are toughass creatures who live in brutality day-by-day by killing others by _disassembling_ them alive using their teeth that tear flesh and crush bone. They walk the BLOODY path. Felines at least asphyxiate before they eat you. Canis Lupis start eating you alive. You might want to get rid of that name.
One of the first movies that didn’t demonize the other people as villains or monsters because the father is also just as capable of committing terrible things in order to survive. This world was just so bleak and honestly brutal.
This is one of the more accurate depictions of how the end of days would play out. Brutal, violent and no the average guy isn't rambo and can't kill everyone he runs into. They really capture the fear and dread a parent would feel having such a young child in such a messed up world.
i remember watching this movie for the first time when i was very young with my family and the scene where the man takes their food and they go back get it and make him take his clothes off always got to me; really shows the effects of humanity when in survival mode and when pushed to their limits
Cormack McCarthy knows how to tell a tale. This movie is the mirror of The Mist. The Mist warns you about giving up hope. The Road warns you about holding onto it.
If you pay close attention, you may notice several of the characters have had the top digits of their thumbs removed. This isnt described in the movie, but in the book, it indicates that these characters had betrayed or abandoned a gang of sorts some time in the past.
Or perhaps they were do hungry and desperate they decided to eat at least something.
@@fawnieeethe calories gained would be a tiny fraction of what’s required to heal
Thank you for clarifying this. I was traumatized by this movie and that last scene worried me.
I thought the thief had no fingers, because of
Thieving
OH HEY I READ THIS BOOK IN HIGH SCHOOL. This is a good video, nice job!
Found this channel a few days ago and literally binged the lot. TH-cam open your eyes and fix that algorithm Big Will should have a gold plaque by now. Keep it coming I watched the house that jack built after your video and honestly blew my mind
In the book it describes the man that finds the boy at the end. Something like 'the cartridges around his waist were hand reloaded and sealed with candle wax' (not a direct quote) I always loved that delicious little detail!
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This was one of those movies that I watched on an off chance in my townhouse in college one night at 2am, and it really bothered me. Some of the scenes have lived rent free in my mind for 12+ years after. A truly haunting portrayal of the horrors that would accompany the utter collapse of society.
I have watched this movie a long time ago, when I still wasn't married, nor had any children. It was scary even then, but now when I have a son who is maybe a few years younger than a movie protagonist, I just can't watch this! I tried rewatching The Road, but I can't do it, it's just too depressing.
When he said it was the family from the bunker I thought, "Uh oh, twist ending. They saw how horrible his father was in the past few days and wanted revenge for them stealing the food"
At the 10:37 mark, all the food labels shown are backwards. Why is the footage shown in mirror image? Is it for copyright purposes? Your accent makes me smile. Words like "South" are spoken by the you as "Souff". Nevertheless, I enjoyed your movie recap. Keep it coming.
Every time I see a new brutality video I get excited
I agree with the pesimistic take on the ending. In a way, it`s very similar to the ending of Threads. People starting to get born isn`t a sign of things getting better, on the contrary. The final shot makes it very clear that there in no doubt regarding the future of humanity. In a similar fashion, I just can`t see the a world depicted like this to ever recover. Depressing movie, definitely.
Between this film, The Mist, and Eden Lake, the late-2000s was just one big punch to the gut.
The first and only time I’ve ever watched this movie I was in my early twenties. Maybe even in my teens still… I can’t remember. I thought it was a depressing movie but the magnitude of it never hit me because I was so young and inexperienced. Now that I’m almost 40 and a father of two young boys, I know I will never watch this movie again.
I've seen alot of disturbing movies as I like horror but to this day this is the only one that made me cry, that ending that struggle after everything, and i was at a place in my life at that time where all i wanted in the entire world was time with my dad so watching this at that time really did both scare and sadden me, lol when something hits you like that you know you are watching a masterpiece of a film. no matter how bad things get try to be the one to carry the fire.
Hope you are able to have a family of your own some day. Pass on the fire. 🔥🙏
Another movie like The road is Threads (1984): maybe isn't emotional as The road, but is haunting as the same.
@Ismaele-oy7jw thank you for recommending it I have not heard of it but I will definitely watch
@@TheVinor14 no problem.
"Babe wake up Big Will just posted again"
The book has incredible vocabulary and a unique format. Southern gothic style. So beautifully written.
I think, the ending of the movie is incredibly heart-warming after you've progressed through 98% of the book with little to no glimpses of hope. There is a hope in the end. And the message is that there's still something left from human empathy even in this apocalyptic world.
Man you gotta have at least 500k subs for the content you produce keep it up man
I've watch a lot of your videos recently starting from the recent and going backwards and none have actually made me stop, and see really heartache brutality under the story. I've never seen this movie and I am thankful I haven't after watching this... This film is a true heartache just watching you narrate it. It weaves in hope, but under that hope is the sad reality of death and what becomes of your family you've put so much of you life and actions into protecting...
I hate the fact that the man was urging the boy to continue on the road...alone, after he died. That boy had no chance in that world, he was far too hopeful and trusting of strangers. The horrible fate that would've befell him is terrifying to imagine
The film is somehow toned down compared to the book. In the book, some cannibals are keeping pregnant slaves with the intent to eat the babies. The family the boy meets at the end is so significant because it has CHILDREN in a world where baby-eating is a common occurrence. Children are the future so the husband and wife have hope for their kids.
I love this series my dude. I have binged watched the lot over the last 2 weeks. Keep up the good work 🤞👍
The family gives me the creeps. I don't know if I trust them.. the following them for day's came over a bit weird. It didn't give me much hope for the boy but I suppose that there was no hope left either way.
Understandable on both counts. You likely didn't trust them because the entire movie gave you no reason to trust anyone, lol, yet following someone for days on end to see what kind of people they'd be--raising a young boy and all--is *exactly* how you'd best approach someone new. How people act when they don't know you have eyes on them is more telling of who they actually are rather than who they could be pretending to be to your face.
Man, this has to be the best video of yours till date.
I watched this movie when i was young with my father, i cried a lot because the father of the movie looks like my father, so i cried so much man.
I remember watching this when I was just a kid and I cried my eyes out at just the shear brutality of the world in the road. It really struck a chord with me at such a young age
Yeah, I think I was 16 or 17 and looking for a good dystopia. I felt cored like an apple when it was over lol.
Ive seen The Road many times but have never noticed the figures in the building at 7:35, in the far right. Maybe just rubble, but I cant seem to find anything talking about it behind the scenes or if there was an intention to those "figures".
Being a Vigo film a saw it a few months back. A truly depressing movie.
Love the content and happy to see a great so sponsor like Shudder. Keep it up!
Should've stayed put in the bunker! Damn that was bad call. How is it safer to walk endlessly with a cart full of supplies.
As a father... I put off reading this book... and for good reason: *"I LITERALLY SOBBED"* throughout the entirety of the book.
Thinking about the abysmal future that my children would have to face... and the lives that they would never have the chance to live... *"SOBBED!!!"*
(Great Author)
I could never forget Aragorns face🙏
Love the video - love the channel - I’d love to hear your analysis of Romero’s Dead Trilogy.
Im a US Marine, I have the training to protect myself and survive as long as I can stand and fight, and I will fight to protect myself (currently on probation for defending myself against homeless junkies who attacked me with a pipe)...but it wasnt until I had daughter that I finally learned what it was to truly love someone, to love my child. (I was physically and emotionally abused alot as a child, no friends until high school, naive and trusting of the wrong people, roofied and raped at 19, abandoned and outcast by "family" as an adult)
When I watched this movie and even now this summary It brings tears to my eyes....I can't imagine the horrors that befall people in good times let alone a situation like this. I don't know how I would prepare my daughter for such a life if this happened. I dont know if I could trust anybody even though I would try to help people like the other family with dog in the film. This movie hurt my heart, makes me think hard about the future.....
Damn! Sorry
im so sorry to hear about your situation
@@Jake-Jake55 no worries......im onrey, stubborn and built sturdy. It may suck but im an even better man because of what I've dealt with. Thanks buddy
Your on probation for defending yourself, only in America
@@reycesarcarino4653 yup. On top of that I was told by police I need to move to a different neighborhood because I "don't fit the description of locals" "move someplace where you fit in"
Adulthood is realizing that post-apocalyptic films like this are perhaps the most realistic depiction of our future as a species
I love scarcity-starvation food porn in movies. Like that scene in Soylent Green where Charleton Heston where he brings home ultra rare food pike lettuce, apples, and even BEEF and booze that he stole from the apartment of an uber rich murder victim that he is investigating as a cop. Similarly, there is the fully stocked hidden food depot and....
EMBARRASSMENT. Of. Canned. Pear. RICHES!
I still can't believe Coca-Cola paid for product placement in a movie as horrific as this one. Maybe it went SOMETHING like THIS: "The world may be over. You may be starving and considering eating Chuck and his annoying pet ferret in 2b. But you can STILL enjoy an irradiated lukewarm but refreshing COCA-COLA!"
oh my, your comment made me remember a video that I saw about that scene lmao th-cam.com/video/TiYeFSu5GGE/w-d-xo.html for a movie so depressing, that made me bust a gut
It's been more than 15 years since I read the book. I still haven't recovered from that scene where he goes down into the basement to find those feral amputies. Gosh, so haunting.
Love then content brother... and I'm not even a horror movie buff...
What a good movie dude I gotta say I love your videos really well put together thank you always a pleasure seeing these
This was one of the most boring, brutal films I'd seen. Extremely depressing and I felt cold the whole time; watching them struggle in the freezing temperature was awful. The human behaviour in this film was worse than animal behaviour, as am quite sure no animal would behave so savagely towards its own species. Love the detailed description in this video. Than you.
Really? You're sure no animal would act so savagely in a situation like this? I think this is just how all animals react under extreme stress. Most animals have a will to survive that's bigger than their moral compass
@@chimchu3232 True that, this guy's as pretentious as only man being capable of doing horrible messed up sht to other living beings, like this dude forgot cats of all sizes enjoy playing with their kills no matter its age or animals of the same species killing eachother over mates
What an idiotic take on this movie. The fact that this got 87 upvotes is bewildering to me.
@@chimchu3232non human animals do not have a moral compass
(spoiler) In the book it is made clear that the man wants to die, but pushes on to try to save his son. The book is very sad, but I think that it has a happy ending. Through the whole book the man and his son are looking for the good guys, which they find eventually eventhough the man dies before realizing this. He dies, but his son is with the good guys. So i would say they succeeded, and if they are good guys, who says there aren't more?
The fact that you have so few subs for the quality of content that you put out is crazy. Love the videos man!
I just want to say I appreciate what you are doing keep it up man
We just read this book in school so talking about this is pretty cool
I have seen this movie just once, before my son was born. I remember how touched I was, I felt really miserable and sad after seeing it. Now being a father myself, I wanted to see it again from my new perspective, but I just don't dare. Horrible and grim reminder of what might happen, especially having in mind the current situation in the world and all those threats of nuclear attack from the Russian side. Really depresing, and disturbingly realistic...
they need to go back to that bunker and never leave 💀
Yeah, I don’t understand. It doesn’t lock from the inside. It probably required a key, inside and out, to lock therefore useless to stay there.
Remember seeing this movie on some weird channel when i was like 11. That basement scene traumatised me
"The Road"(2009) is an excellent post apocalyptic dramatic thriller movie!
The book is ever darker than the movie. There are scenes where a pregnant woman eats the child when she gave birth. Additionally, the guy they leave naked in the street had one of his hands melted together which was a punishment from his previous group.
For most of us, the following would be realistically accurate.
1) you'd drink from a dirty water source and end up dying that way.
2) suicide or murdered.
Ultimately, most people wouldn't eat human flesh. Even in this scenario its such a taboo that its up there with incest.
Maybe if it was paired with a nice salad and a glass of pinot.. but that'd be pushing it.
what about fava beans and a nice chianti
then you under estimate not just the Human, but your own inherent determination to not be starving anymore....
I assume you have never truly like really been starving....
@@ffejpsycho not really, if there is no food, you can't eat. Eat bad food,you die.
Drink bad water, get sick and eventually die.
Its not under estimating when it's fact.
Well... If someone attacks you, you defended yourself, well... Meat is meat
My wife and I don't plan to make it through an apocalypse. We have no desire to spend 10 to 30 years living through hell on earth, waiting for things to improve. Not when we have a beautiful afterlife together lined up. I'm prepared for all sorts of different, non-world ending disasters. War, famine, several natural disasters. But nuclear winter? The breakdown of the ecosystem? Nope, we refuse.
No you have to stay and fight off cannibals and zombies and demons. We're only at the cannibals, so far.
I watched that movie when I was way too young :'D
Thanks for all the videos brother started binge watching them tonight
13:43 "Father reacts harshly purely for revenge"
COMPLETELY DISAGREE! 1-Man left THEM for dead by takin food. 2-Father's dying and havin man capable of following them to KILL em both ISN'T an option.. Father should've KILLED man while he had upper hand. Scene is REMINISCENT OF TOM CRUISE in War of The Worlds ...when Tom kills Tim Robbins for bein too loud/drawing attention from Aliens; probably most powerful scene in the film... along with the one where Tom's character couldn't noremember a lullaby to sing to his daughter to put hurt at easy... so sings the oldie "Lil Douce Coupe".... DAMN Tom Cruise is a good actor LOL! ..
Always watch this movie when I want to feel good on a rainy day
The Covid pandemic has already given us some insight into the lengths people will go to when things get desperate. It's scary to think about.
another one i need to watch.. just watched your video on The House that Jack Built.... will be watching that as well...
I always assumed the family ate him or sold him later.
They were intentionally pursuing a failing old guy and his kid who were loaded down carrying something.
That's straight up predatory type behavior in that kind of scenario.
True. Why would the family spend several days tailing them and then wait until the father is dead until they approach, when the whole point is that they are concerned for their safety? Doesn’t make sense
The father was very sick. They (the family) could've easily taken him. No need to follow them for days, just to kidnap or eat the son. Their motives were good. No way the father would've willingly let his son go with them, even though he knew he was dying. Nor would the kid had wanted to leave the father while he was still alive. They had to wait for him to die.
No!
@@daniellevaughn4598 Still incredibly odd to tail a group of people for literal days un a world where meeting the wrong people can mean death. They waited for the father to die to make their presence known? What about when the boy was sleeping and they were robbed? This is either really contrived, or they are horrible people luring the boy into a false hope
@@godfrey4461Maybe they hadn’t arrived at that point
Your videos are truly well made and the narration really entertaining. Thanks for such a good job. Greetings from México.