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A very rare treat, a meal of canned foods in the safety of a well-stocked hole. When things turn ugly, men will turn uglier. Though there is never mention of God, the obvious flaw in mankind is rightly highlighted – he is a sinner by nature, and evil. Bands of roving groups have turned to cannibalism. The survivors are few, those that exist are of course very dangerous.
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Earthquakes and fires are constant, and the landscape is one of doomsday. All plants are dead, and everything is gray. As we all know, when the sun is obscured, nothing lives. Whatever it was sent ash into the sky such that the sun was obscured. The event that essentially killed the world is never explicitly stated, but it seems like a cataclysmic meteor strike.
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The tale follows a father and his son as they seek the southern shores in a post-cataclysmic world. John Hillcoat directs the 2009 film, The Road, based on Cormack McCarthy’s best seller. It reminds me of Galveston Island and the coastal mainland after hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas coast in 2008. The disaster is only implied, but judging from the large boats on the ground, a large storm surge or quake-initiated tsunami passed by here. I was overjoyed to see it made into a feature film and promptly ordered my own copy. It was such a story that McCarthy was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for literature in 2007. Imagine my dismay when it arrived with a commendation printed on the cover from Oprah’s Book Club. I purchased the book because it was listed in a top 10 survival-story list and I’m into that kind of stuff. I read The Road when it had already become a best seller. Literature and film often reflect our greatest fears. Once, these were niche genres reserved for suvivalists and alarmist quacks. Such scenes have become more common in film and literature as people find contemplations about societal collapse and global distaster to be more mainstream.