Dead, probably. I’d be okay with it… the way The Road is set up the world is going through an extinction level event, nothing grows anymore. There’s only so much pre-canned food, or other humans, to eat before it all runs out. It’s pretty bleak.
the ending is the second worst part to me because it’s supposed to uplifting because the child finds friendly people, but this is still true; so there’s no happy ending.
Are they friendly? Or do they just act that way just to lead the boy away? They’ve been watching for a while, why didn’t they step in and offer to help before?
I used to think your way, that there was a glimmer of hope at the end of the bleakest book I’ve ever read, then somebody explained it to me that way, and that glimmer flickered out.
Watching it again, I was wary because the guy was just telling the kid what he wanted to hear. But when the rest of the family showed up, it looked like they might be okay, but only because they have a dog. I doubt the dog would hang around with people who were cruel to others. Besides, they probably would have eaten the dog by now.
I don’t remember the dog being in the book, so the bleakest interpretation, that the people will turn out to be bad, might work for the book better than the film.
Dead, probably. I’d be okay with it… the way The Road is set up the world is going through an extinction level event, nothing grows anymore. There’s only so much pre-canned food, or other humans, to eat before it all runs out. It’s pretty bleak.
the ending is the second worst part to me because it’s supposed to uplifting because the child finds friendly people, but this is still true; so there’s no happy ending.
Are they friendly? Or do they just act that way just to lead the boy away? They’ve been watching for a while, why didn’t they step in and offer to help before?
I used to think your way, that there was a glimmer of hope at the end of the bleakest book I’ve ever read, then somebody explained it to me that way, and that glimmer flickered out.
this is how it ends
Watching it again, I was wary because the guy was just telling the kid what he wanted to hear. But when the rest of the family showed up, it looked like they might be okay, but only because they have a dog. I doubt the dog would hang around with people who were cruel to others. Besides, they probably would have eaten the dog by now.
I don’t remember the dog being in the book, so the bleakest interpretation, that the people will turn out to be bad, might work for the book better than the film.