The immortality and delusions of youth.

I am sitting here having my coffee talking with my girlfriend and music form the movie "the road" comes on Pandora and I jokingly threaten to make her watch the rest of the movie which we had to stop because it was soooooo fuckin depressing.
The movie however made me think how naive I was as a kid in the late 70's and early 80's when I was watching movies like Mad Max and the Road Warrior thinking how kool it would be racing around a post apocalyptic landscape in (insert Aussie accent) the last of the V'8s!...My father at the time didn't see it the way i did and wanted to be at ground zero when the nukes hit....he wasn't interested in racing around

If you have not seen the movie "The Road" and want to see what a future with no hope looks like I recommend it.

 

That movie really was depressing. It did show the more "realistic" side of post-apocalytpic survival.

That said, I remember yelling at the TV because of all the shit decisions Mortenson's character makes in that movie. I can't remember them all for now, but one I do remember was they left a safe, fully stocked bunker to head back out on the road.

Personally, I live in northern Canada. We're about 4.5 hours away from western Canada's largest military city of Edmonton. A nuke to that city and the prevailing winds would mean most like my town would be ok-ish for awhile.

My biggest fear is the morons that populate our town. It's an oilfield town, so it's packed with mouth breathing, unintelligent, impulsive rednecks. I foresee gun fights over a single water bottle if rule of law disappears. If we can wait for the chaos to subside and head into the mountains, we have a shot. Getting out of town with supplies is the tricky part...

Then comes the odds that shit hits the fan in winter. Winter up here makes survival a real bitch. If we had a summer/fall to set up a base camp in the mountains, lay in some supplies, game meat and firewood it'd be doable. If things go pear shaped in the middle of winter...we're boned. The saving grace I guess is our furnace and fire place are natural gas and the nat gas system fail safes open so theoretically we'd have heat for a little while...

So many variables people don't think of, just with regard to basic survival. The run and gun, Mad Max, "fun stuff" isn't the reality. Cold blooded fighting your neighbour for the last water bottle, fortifying your home, trusting no one, and the grind of just trying to make it to the the next meal would take serious toll.

 

If nature survives we can survive, if like in the movie all plant and animal life die then it will be a race to see who gets eaten last.

 

Pretty fooked up flick. I liked it though.. Amazing how pretty much everyone in post apocalytic movies have plenty of gas and electricity....food, bars, hookers, bad make up, mutants, diesel, beer, matches, Sony Walkmans,
Pepsi, hair dressers,........................................................................The Road...they didn't have squat......reality...

 

The person eaten last has guns and ammo, gas....and Tundra...

 

In the end no matter what, we all die, that’s the reality.
I’m willing to go down hard to give my children a fighting chance to help my grandchildren live a bit.

 

Very true. I think would take a pretty catastrophic event for all plant and animal life to die. Exitinction level event, think asteroid impact or a few countries lobbing more than a few nukes at each other. In that case...we're all fucked.

My personal belief is barring the above scenarios, in the event of a total break down of civilization and rule of law we'd probably revert back about 300 years. Subsistance farming, hunter/gatherer type society. It make take a generation of warring tribes etc and probably 60%+ of the world's population dying off, but I think humanity would find a way providing the planet is still habitable.

 

That was a fairly depressing movie but does get you thinking, "what would I do". I think the reality of it is totally unknown and really cannot b foreseen.

 

One of the most depressing movies I have seen. Good but definitely not a feel-good movie.

 

The movie ends with the kid being taken in by the family which the optimist in me thought at least they ended it in a positive note. However, a buddy of mine saw it differently. He saw it as their next meal.