Hi All,
In today’s post I am going to discuss one of my personal favorite dystopian books/film of all time.
If you are a fan of dystopian films, then this novel/film is an absolute must watch as it is a very well laid out story which has an intensity that lasts throughout the entire film.
The story follows the journey of a father and his young son who are trying to survive a very bleak post apocalyptic world, that has fallen victim to an unspecified cataclysm that stops all vegetation being able to grow. In turn causing an agricultural disaster that results in all means of food being destroyed, and in the years after this event, all of civilisation is completely lost.
The remaining survivors result to desperate methods to survive with the worst of those methods being cannibalism through hunting other human beings.
The story goes into a lot of detail of the difficulties that the two main characters (only referred to as man and boy) come across, with fighting starvation being a constant struggle, along with running from other humans who mean to harvest the man for food, and do worse to the boy before killing him as well.
The constant threat of other humans is clear from the start, as the man and boy are almost caught by a group of cannibals, and with only two bullets in his gun the man puts the gun to the boys head as he knows that killing him would be a much better result than being caught by those who mean to harm them.
The story consists of various events which emphasise what a horrible place the world has become, with the man seeming constantly paranoid to his son, due to his experience since the end of civilisation.
The boy having only known this bleak world tries to have a more positive outlook even with very little hope of a good outcome with the current state of this world.
Both the book and film are very intense, with the book having a lot more detail and describing events that would be deemed too horrific to put on film. And with this being a dystopian film, there is unfortunately no happy ending in this post apocalyptic world, but this is what makes this genre so interesting.
The story itself does not seem too far fetched from reality, especially with how I have seen most of society behave with COVID-19. Examples such as people trying to out-buy each other on toilet roll suggests key survival instinct in human beings with a very selfish “me first” attitude.
This suggests that if things became desperate enough, there are people out there who would result to unspeakable acts, and do whatever it takes to survive (cannibalism not out of question).
As it is a personal favourite, I am giving this story a solid 9.5/10 because I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have watched/read it several times, whilst enticing my imagination of living in this world.
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Thanks for reading.
