Comments on: REVIEW: Godless ‘Road’ Offers Bleak Worldview

By: just dance 2

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By: ChrisTheDem

ChrisTheDem — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:26:03 +0000

Predictable post.

By: ChrisTheDem

ChrisTheDem — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:15:04 +0000

2 Comments:
1) @Paul – No one in your life has ever served as a reason or reminder to be a better man? I don't have kids but I know that my little brother is a good motivation to remember to be moral and do the right thing. If you cannot see that and really need to just have Bible at all time to flip to ("Should I murder this guy?…oh, says right here not to, ok, guess I wont") then you have bigger problems then not understanding basic tenets of films.

2) I like how everyone on this site can somehow twist their argument so that "the liberals just dont get it". The author of the original blog says that it's the lefty-liberals who wanted to create this movie to be nihilistic. Then Thomas (above) says, No, this movie really is about values and carrying on morals…and although we can assume "hollywierd" and the "loony left" made this…they don't understand the concepts in the film.

- Are the liberals nihilists who made a dark and pointless (and really really boring and depressing) movie or did the lefties create a movie about carrying on values and humanity in the face of extreme adversity…and they just didn't realize they were espousing the values they so hate as venom drips from their evil liberal fangs?

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:10:01 +0000

Maybe he was being ironic?

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:06:51 +0000

What´s that supposed to mean – movie characters cannot be moral guides for other movie characters? Dude, you will never find a movie you like.

By: Person

Person — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:56:19 +0000

I think the movie is a tad more nihilistic than the book was.

By: CBKC

CBKC — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:15:50 +0000

Like a moth to the flame, I kept coming back to finish this depressing book, as if obligated and with the hope that there would be something to redeem the awful journey of this father and son. And in the end we don't even find out what caused this awful catastrophe. It just "is", which i guess is the essence of nihilism.

By: boqueronman

boqueronman — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:07:36 +0000

FYI. For anyone who is actually interested in post-apocalyptic fiction the best of the genre is Earth Abides written by George R. Stewart in 1949. The scenario is the arrival of a "plague" that wipes out 90+ percent of the population. The book then traces the survival and recovery of a group of people who find each other to form a community. As an aside, why is it necessary for The Road to create cannibals when any three year old would realize there would be enough canned goods to last a radically reduced population for years? Anyway, the leader of the group sees as his mission to transmit the best of pre-apocalyptic civilization to the their descendants. The story traces the original members through their lives and shows the futility of expecting the following generation(s) to understand or accept the values that are no longer necessary for their survival. It is a very sad but at the same time hopeful future. Worth a read.

By: dcase

dcase — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:57:03 +0000

it seems the film can be interpreted several ways…

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:45:40 +0000

I don't think you've read the book. It's by far McCarthy's least nihilistic book and the ending, by McCarthy's standards, is downright hopeful.