In "The Road" the protagonist kept surviving and protecting his son long after his wife had killed herself in despair. I think his resilience has something to do with the man's faith. He talks about "keeping the fire burning". I think this was the man's way of talking about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the life of God inside us all. This was probably McCarthy's most spiritual work.
Women and kids are dumb. The man just told the boy some shit he made up to keep him moving.
>kills a nigger with a flare gunlol?
>>215057822Because most women are whores. I would like to think I would become one of those cannibals and eat some females
>>215057861He shot at him?
>>215057822Short answer, women want it easy.Longer answer, watched this with my then gf when it was released and she took the side of the wife saying "what's the point if there is nothing (mall, friends, society, etc.) out there?". I said it was our duty as humans to fight till the end, to carry the torch. She laughed and said this is stupid.So, shortest answer of them all: women.
>>215057864>>215058130Women are coddled their entire lives and would rather die than be inconvenienced or placed in a lesser station. Their worldview is 'I am at this level and should only get better things ever'. It's why no one cares which rich women are beat up and raped.
>Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
FAVSTIAN
>>215057822>>215058130that's just the modern mindvirus. it's not "women" so much as it's women poisoned and psyopped by the goofball culture we've all been living in for the last 80 years. the road guys existence was little different than frontier existence and tons of women put up with that shit back in the day and worse before that. yep. just women are more easily psyopped, that's all
>>215058130>>215057822My wife has said multiple times that if zombies happen or there's an apocalypse that she's gonna off herself. I just don't understand it
>>215058130>"what's the point if there is nothing (mall, friends, society, etc.) out there?"please tell me that you're paraphrasing and that your girlfriend didn't seriously cite "malls" as a specific thing she'd miss in the same breath as "friends" and "society"
>>215058554I'd like to think I would never kill myself if I could help it (as I'm catholic) but there's definitely some scenarios where I'd contemplate it pretty seriously depending on what the threat is. For instance if it's a zombie disease that infects you but you stay conscious the whole time in deathless agony, then I'd probably kill myself, but only once it becomes obvious I'll be infected / I've been infected. I'd never give up if I had a chance to make it.
>>215059699It's been like 15 years but she said something like that, I can't remember the exact words. Not even the fact that there was a kid involved changed her mind since she always voiced she how much she hated kids. Women talk about "the icky" but they don't understand that some things plants a permanent redflag on a man's brain, I think that was the first time I thought "I can't trust this bitch". Most women (but not all) are like that, they give up at the first signal of hardship, in our current situation they can just ask for a guy to solve their problems, but if we hit The Road you bet 99% would simply run into the forest crying and screaming until they die of hunger or gang rape.Unless they find a gentle bear to take care of them, kek
>>215058269Another retard avoiding accountability for females.The only reason those frontier females put up with it is because men were allowed to beat them. It wasn't because there were no jews around. Stop guzzling gynoid diarrhea fucking weak castrated faggot.
>>215060818You're not married after 15 years?
>>215060922Yeah, twice. But not with that girlfriend, that went nowhere. I think she was been bipolar or something. Being with women is kind of like doing drugs: you know it'll feel good for a while, but then things get messy. Still, you keep going back, just because.
>>215057852Nah, he actually had many good points. I still think about how nightmares are good for you because sweet dreams lure you into the nether. I only have lucid great dreams unless I lose my pants.
She made the right decision. Killing your kid and then yourself would minimize the pain and suffering you'll both experience. This isn't a "survive and wait it out" situation, you're doomed to a life of complete misery and fear, and every subsequent generation shares in that doom. If civilization collapses, there aren't enough shallow resources left to kickstart another industrial revolution so at best you're looking at an eternal medieval simulator on Earth until the Sun explodes.
>>215061185Quitter
>>215057822>his wife had killed herselfYeah i didnt get that either i think they just did it for the plot./spoiler Also i didnt get the house with the people with the chopped off legs in the basement, it makes no sense from a logical standpoint, just kill the people and turn them into jerky if you let them live they will lose weightIt was shocking but at times stupid, it mainly wanted to be shocking and accepted being stupid to do so.It was a great movie though
>>215057861Yeah that was based
>>215058130Tbf, the situation in The Road was exceptionally hopeless. IIRC, pretty much all life was destroyed, meaning survivors would either have to eventually become cannibals or become someone else's meal. Personally, I couldn't bear to see my child suffer either of those outcomes. Maybe the wife gave up too soon, but ultimately she was correct.
>>215058229So fucking gay ngl
>>215061185>Killing your kid and then yourself would minimize the pain and suffering you'll both experience.So why not do it RIGHT NOW, your next tax season will come, next month her period will come again and cause cramps and eggs are rather expensive arent they?
>>215057822>This was probably McCarthy's most spiritual work.I mean, he wrote this for his son for that mean
>>215057861The dude put an arrow through his calf
>>215061772Thats why it was unrealistic, >all the birds and bees and even rats and cockroaches are dead, lmao>yeah weve still got plenty of humans thoughEven chernobyl is full of (irradiated and cancerous) wildlife.
>>215057822>He talks about "keeping the fire burning". I think this was the man's way of talking about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the life of God inside us all.It's a Prometheus/Zoroastrianism reference. And that, my friend, is kino.
>>215057861nigga playing TF2 in real life
>>215061897Humans are outside of the food chain, so they're able to survive on canned goods (at first, until resorting to cannibalism). Every other organism just starved out.
>>215062152It's insane how many people got filtered by this movie.>just feed the cows with stored food bro
>>215061711McCarthy was definitely an edgelord who went for the edgiest possible thing regardless of how much sense it made
>>215060818This must be why all those women are calling for a communist dictatorship to manage climate change.
>>215057822Women are retarded and live exclusively for fun and social gatherings
>>215062315This. Why weren't the people who'd been starving for a decade thinking rationally?
>>215062046I'm sorry to hear that. There's nothing worse than betrayal.
>>215057852>>215057864>>215058130>>215058191>>215058269>>215060887>Nearly 12 men lose their lives to suicide every day, or approximately 4,200 suicides each year. In the US, the suicide rate among males is 4 times higher than that of females. Male deaths represent 79% of suicides, amounting to roughly 100 men dying by suicide every day, over 36,000 annually.Motherfucker you guys are terminal depressed and contemplate suicide everyday because you're virgins can't even get a date/gfWhy are you pretending that women killing themselves in apocalypses are weak when you guys literally do it everyday because you can't get women?Men literally kill themselves at the smallest inconvenience, meanwhile women only cut, you're insane
>>215062315This is why I stopped watching a lot of EU/SEA movies. Korean torture porn, Godless demoralizing films for some weird sake of grim hardcore scenarios just for the sake of itself?I thought stuff like Old boy was cool when I was youngre but it's actually just retarded.
>>215062459That zombie film from Taiwan really tested me. Pure sadism.
>>215062427All a woman has to do is open her legs and a man will look after her so she always has an "out." Men don't get that luxury so if you're born in some backwater town and theirs only so few women and you aren't high on the totem pole of being an attractive mate (poor, ugly, short etc...) then your life is pretty grim.
>>215062459>>215062483torture porn is bad for your soul it's part of being an adult understanding this, when you're still childlike killing ants for sport seems fun this is why our society flourished and theirs didn't
I won't back down
>>215062304who are you quoting?
>>215057822>>215058229Even if the ecosystem comes back and humans survive you know that all the cannibals are the vast majority of people who will be the survivors right? So you want to live in a world run by them?
Who was the better father?
>>215057822Note that the story - neither the book nor the movie - make his choice portrayed as better, worse or any kind of value. It's just his choice vs. his wife choice.You are the one that adds value to it. Not the film
>>215062962>Crossed
The wives choice was correct, this wasn't some zombie apocalypse where society can be rebuilt by survivors. I've never actually seen the film, only read the book but it is a 100% hopeless situation.
>>215062962This is the best moment in the comics and I can tell it comes from some petty personal grudge against someone resembling the redhead D&D nerd.
>>215061636you're the kind of kind who'll stand by and watch someone burn to death rather than putting them out of their misery because it lets them "builds character"
>>215062304>>215062152Why is chernobyl full of wildlife then?Why does shit still grow in hiroshima and nagasaki and theres even stil fish around the bikini atoll.And if everythings so irradiated and poisonous why do people survive without the radiation gear?
>>215061185>If civilization collapsescivilization has collapsed many times and extinction events, like a asteroid impact The Road depicted, have happened before. Not once, not twice but in total six times. At this point its clear only thing that can truly kill life on earth when the sun starts dying in a billion years and swallows up the earth in itself but its good you will purge yourself and your dead end offspring to stop being a hassle on others. Only worthy survivalists keep pushing on. just be sure to do it where others find you fast. So not much calories are lost from the meat degradation
>>215062427The suicide rate honestly has to be way higher than what's reported
>>215061897The story is not be approached with realism in mind, that's why the author left the reason for the apocalypse untold. He said the whole idea came to him when he thought about the time when a father must let his kids venture in the real world, that the best you can do is to teach them how dangerous is out there but that there is hope even in the worst scenarios. Also >>215061971 how is our duty as human beings to "keep the fire burning".
>>215064154the road apocalypse is modelled after the Chicxulub asteroid impact event aftermath. The rock that killed the dinos and set continents on fire. The author made effort to specifically research it no nooks. its midwit take that think the big, scary bombs are the spookiest thing around because they have no reference point. to put it into perspective chicxulub kinetic energy released upon impact was thought to be about >100 million megatons. worlds nook-ooks combined are somewhere between>2-3k megatons
>>215062427>Men literally kill themselves at the smallest inconvenienceMen kill themselves after a life of abuse and the realization that things will not become better in the future, and still most men keep going. Women quit things all the time just because they feel uneazy, and all they do is to find another man to carry their load. It's not the same at all. Also we are not talking about all the men, but a situation where we have two parents and one left the other and her kid to fend for themselves.
>>215064154The event in the movie/book is understood to be far more destructive than any of your example, so bad that the entire ecosystem collapses. Earth is likely doomed to become a dead planet like Mars. The only reason humans are surviving is that they're living on what's left of preserved goods (and later cannibalism).
>>215064321>At this point its clear only thing that can truly kill life on earth when the sun starts dying in a billion years and swallows up the earth in itselfThat's not a given, considering Mars once had running water and (probably) life as well.
>>215057822The best part is when they get robbed, and the thief happens to be the last nigger alive
>>215057822It's because modern feminism (which is the frame all women are currently living under) requires social hierarchy and social integration. In their mind, if you're outside of that you might as well not exist. Read Virginia Woolf if you want to understand why modern women act and think the way they do right now. She literally hated living in London because of the drama and people but then killed herself when they moved to the country because she was no longer in a relevant social circle. In The Road, where there is no social society, the virtues that modern feminists base a successful life on literally can't exist so there's no reason for they themselves to exist. The women who do survive will be a different breed entirely, with different morals virtues, likely akin to the ones who survived during the stone ages>This was probably McCarthy's most spiritual workHe has literal spiritual beings in his other works
There really needs a public campaign for fallout shelters.
>>215057822should I watch or read this kino? or watch then read, or read then watch?
>>215065953>ReadingAhahahahaha look at this zero pussy mf
>>215057822> why does a man have a stronger spirit than a woman?I'm really, really, sincerely sorry for the way the world has changed, and the environment you grew up in. We failed you all.
>>215062653>who are you quoting?You.>>215064154>Why is chernobyl full of wildlife then?The plants around chernobyl still receive regular sunlight.
>>215066051>You.Impossible, because I never suggested such a retarded idea.
>>215066089>wHo aRe yOu qUoTiNg? You're clearly braindead, so I have no reason to believe you.
>>215066193Read it again slowly, my esl friend
>>215065953Both are great, but if you want to to know how the book goes read this >>215058229
>>215062427>can't even get a date/gfimmediately playing the only card you have, i.e. presenting yourself as a fuckhole. perfect encapsulation of your mind, your being, your psyche - right off the bat. chef's kiss. 10/10
>>215057822The wife was tired of being shut in with her brokedick husband and ran outside so she could get her pussy pounded by a gang of bbc. Many such cases. Sad!
>>215065953Read first, then watch. This way your mind-kino will be uncontaminated by viewing someone else's interpretation.
>>215057822Nah. The fire in this context was just life for life’s sake. That’s what the novel knocks you over the head with.
>>215062702Cannibals are all going to fucking die of prion disease. There’s a reason that shit is so taboo.
>>215061185The crazy thing is all the quitters like you will all die thinking they made the right choice. If only there was some way for you retards to see the world 100, 200, 300 years after you kill yourself to see the world filled with people not just living, but thriving. Just like man always has, just like man always will
>>215066583Just don't eat the brains.
>>215066753That reduces, doesn’t eliminate the risk of prion disease
>>215066842Oh OK well since I haven't eaten any food for six weeks I'll make the wise decision not to eat the flesh of this guy who just tried to kill me. Wouldn't want to risk getting prion disease after all, ha ha
>>215065953The book is short enough that you can knock it out in a few sessions. The movie's not a bad adaptation but it leaves out a lot of the more disturbing scenes and bleaker visuals that really indicate how incredibly fucked the planet is.
>>215063192lmao your leap of logic is so retarded and nonsensical, I will just assume you're just trolling
>>215058229i enjoy cormac's style despite his hatred of punctuation. the shortness of it. adding things like this.
>>215058191Men literally up and leave everytime they accidentally knock up some random broad lmao. Hilarious that you think this
>>215067807Nobody believes you're really a woman, broski.
