Hey BK
If the author had an intended idea of what had happened, I suppose it
probably wasn asteroid hit .
As far as the food not decomposing, I thought I remembered he and his
son finding a lone corn chip.
I thought about the movie too, for a day or two after. There was
something haunting about it. I'm not going to lie. After watching the
movie, I said to myself, " This time could have been better spent on
something else.", but the movie definitly stayed with me. Also, I feel that way about the majority of movies.
As far as all the cannibalism, I think of "People under the stairs",
and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
What about this movie, just made it SO MUCH MORE realistic, and
grasping then in any other movie, I don t know, but it had a way of
like bringing it close to home.
One part of the movie taht stuck with me, was when he found those
people in that basement. Again, this is not a new concept in movies,
books, tv shows, or even reality, but something about the way they
portrayed it, was so disturbing... and just effectual.
The other thing about this scene that disturbed me, was that the guy
locked them back up. He could have let them go. It would have been so
easy for him to have done, and maybe they would have survived, maybe
they wouldn t ve, but at least they they would have had a shot.
I think in his mind, he simply could not identify with them. They were
what they were, and he and his son, were not that, and not going to be
that. You are over there. We are over here. Yeah.. that part stayed
with me. Of course, it is only a movie, but it haunted me abit.
Also the scene where, the woman, is chased down, by those guys, and the
last thing she does is wrap herself around the child to protect him,
and beg for mercy.... and it gets you thinking , this little boy, and
this young woman, have made it all these years, just to get killed by
those sub-humans.
For me, when I watch a fantasy movie, which is most, I think, I have to accept life for the sake of the movie, on the terms of the creator. In order to get the plot, and all that, I first have to grasp, and accept, the world, the creator, is displaying. Even if I don t agree that the world he is creating is real, right, or good.. If I can t first , grasp, and accept that, the rest of the movie, is simply worthless, regardless, of how good any particulars may be.
At the end, when the boy, is found, by the compassionate, and nurturing family, who seem to have fully retained all of their humanity in spite of the circumstances, the whole movie, kinda fell apart for me.
It is as though, the author said," This exists in my created world. this is possible, and yet I chose to make a movie about something less. I chose to speak of the dark side.
I know that this exists, but my heart believes in sharing this, instead. "
I felt kinda ripped off by that. Anyhow, take care....
lol One thing I ll say about this movie, it definitly makes an interesting conversation piece, and for better or worse, was very impactful.
Paul