The Road

After watching The Road, I was very satisfied with the film. I found it to be somewhat of a suspenseful and dramatic film. As I was watching The Road, I couldn't help but realize that out of all of the films we have watched, this film in particular would be the most realistic possibility of what our future may become. Every film we have watched has had similar themes and alternative possibilities but I believe that The Road is the closest one to actually happening. I first began to believe it's possibility when Viggo Mortensen had flashbacks that implied a great explosion or nuclear weapon going off leaving humanity steadily declining to extinction. Although I've never been a big cannibal film themed fan, I found premise of this is one of the only ways to live a realistic possibility. We have seen in history that in a time of desperate measures, we are willing to do anything for survival. In this film, many humans have become cannibals in order to survive (unlike films like the wrong turn films where the premise is actually stupid). As I was watching this, I felt like I was watching a feature film of the Walking Dead just without zombies and The Road is a lot more sad. We've seen different types of dystopian film this summer and although it hasn't been my favorite film, The Road has been more realistic and possible than any film we have discussed because the world today, there are literally thousands of nuclear weapons and all it will take is one to be set off and all of humanity will fall to chaos and anarchy. In all of the other dystopian films, there is a theme of a corrupt or overreaching governing force. However, this film was the definition if anarchy mixed in with evolutions natural selection because the extinction of mankind had become inevitable. And in so doing, it became simply the fight to be the last human to be alive. As I have pointed out numerous times this summer, humans are the only threat to their extinction and The Road made me wonder if the apocalypse is going to happen, how much of nature are we going to take with us or will we do the earth a favor and just take ourselves.