10 Post-Apocalyptic Films That Prove Mankind Is Doomed
5. The Road (2009)
Cormac McCarthys body of work is some of the greatest 20th Century literature and for the most part, this is a pretty faithful adaptation of the text. The fact that only feel-good moment in the whole of the film is a boy drinking a can of Coke is pretty indicative of the pessimistic doom-laden story. A world where being robbed is a death sentence and where there are not just one or two cannibals, but an entire pick and mix of man-eating tribes from stalkers to grisly storers. McCarthy suggested it was the world committing suicide and its the perfect description. Everything from the ashen trees to the cataracted sky, is in a slow state of decay and the constant question that Viggo Mortensens character implicitly asks is the one on the tip of the audiences tongue, is it morally right to bring a child up in an unforgiving, dying world?
