>we stalked you and your dad for days and now want to take you in and take care of you because we are good people or something
they ate him didn't they?

no they had a friendly looking dog which is artistic short hand for "these are the good guys"

>>212700633 (OP)
the point is that you're not quite sure but you hope - which means you are carrying the fire

Yes, they absolutely raped the kid, killed him and then ate him. But you're supposed to fool yourself into thinking otherwise because humanity is inherently biased when it comes to itself.

>>212700633 (OP)
>>212702001
No he isn’t jewish/israeli or brown

>>212700633 (OP)
iirc in the book it’s less ambiguous.

No they needed him for when he got older so he could impregnate their daughter

>>212701884
it doesn't mean nothing because ameritards can't hurt pupperinos

>>212702093
huh? what do you think the dad is there for?

>>212701884
The dog means they have enough food to feed a dog.

>>212702093
Or the mom

>>212700633 (OP)
after they raped him to death

>>212702045
I'm pretty sure in the book they're portrayed just like the boy and his dad, the journey just continues

>>212700633 (OP)
Their two kids looked pretty scared in this scene.

>>212702896
I never read it but someone said they showed signs of being cannibals. So maybe you should read it again you fucking retard because clearly you missed something important.

>>212703489
>I never read it
I know, otherwise you wouldn't subscribe to retarded reddit fan theories.

>>212701980
Based understander

>>212703519
I'm not the one with zero media literacy.

>>212700633 (OP)
movie name?

>>212703550
Stinking Cannibals Convince Kid to Put Down His Weapon and then Eat Him: 3.

>>212703489
Wrong, the man explicitly doesn't disarm the boy, his wife comforts him and then they find a stream with trout in it, implying hope.

The book clearly wants you to come away thinking in no uncertain terms that the boy was raped, killed and then eaten. The movie is a little more ambiguous but its still the same ending.

>>212703594
That's not what I heard.

>>212703620
I heard you were gay.

>>212703646
Who the fuck said that?

>>212703666
The grapevine Mr satan, it's the word on the street

The whole movie is about raising and teaching your child, and then feeling the fear and uncertainty of having to put them out into the world.

>>212702001
>raping your food
>eating your boyhole
I'd have separate boys for raping and eating

>>212703550
The Road
>>212703489
Nope the signs is, they have no thumb. Which means they were living in a community and were caught stealing.

>>212701884
>>212702251
>>212702104
The dog tracks the people they stalk. They definitely ate him.

>>212703698
Mccarthy was way older so it carried that much more gravitas for his own son.

>>212700633 (OP)
They ate his asshole alright.

>>212703695
It was just four or five times, I was curious!

>>212702093
good point

>>212703712
wypipo don season dey food

>>212700633 (OP)
they ate his ass for sure.

Why didn't they just grow and eat mushrooms. They don't need sunlight.

>>212703712
Don't cum where you eat

one word: Catamites

They couldn't find a single utility cart better than that shopping cart. I single welder and some bicycle tires could make a better transportation vehicle.

>>212703870
>dude weed
Fuck off hippy.

>>212703870
Wasn't the soil pretty much completely devoid of nutrients? Mushrooms are unnatural aliens but I think that they also need at least some nutrients to grow.

>>212703870
Mushrooms aren't a perpetual-energy machine.

>>212703790
What? You told me you loved me and it meant something!!!

>>212703959
What, did a bunch of aliens show up and suck all the nutrients up out of the soil?

>>212704034
That's not what I heard.

>>212704164
The movie is set 10 years after the sun was permanently blocked.

>>212704196
So the mushrooms terraformed Earth and got us to block out the sun because they don't need light to survive?

>>212704196
Blocked by what

There's a certain type of autism that is allergic to art, and that's what infects this board

>>212704282
Mushrooms. Try to keep up.

>>212700633 (OP)

Yes.

>>212704282
yo mamma

>>212703489
>I never read it but here’s my opinion anyway that I’ve based on some retards youtube video
Fuck off

>>212704389
>some retards youtube video
Actually it was an anon but good try retard.

>>212703002
>Their two kids looked pretty scared in this scene.
Maybe it was because of the nutty kid waving a pistol at them.

I hate cannibals so much

>>212700633 (OP)
Why wouldn't you just farm humans by impregnating women and then eating the children

>>212704282
Ash. The man explains that the world grows colder and colder week by week because earth is quite literally dying. Even trees are slowly falling over and dying out, nothing survives. No ecosystem means no nutrients.

>>212703870
They're not nutritious at all, you're better off eating leather shoes.

>>212704492
There was a house of people doing that

>>212704492
The cannibals actually do that in the book.

>>212704553
They were capturing and eating people but it was never shown or implied that they were impregnating women and eating the offspring

>>212704587
>They were capturing and eating people but it was never shown or implied that they were impregnating women and eating the offspring
Because that would be exceptionally retarded.

>>212704587
Iirc at some point they found a group of guys with some pregnant women with them, days later they find their camp and there is a newborn being roasted in the fire.

>>212704662
No it wouldn't you get a reliable source of food by doing that, we do the same things to other animals

>why didn't they autistically lay out the lore of this world and go indepth on every minute detail of every character
It's a vague painterly book not nerd slop

>>212704662
Why? you don't think it's a good idea to feed a mother and her baby for 9 months just so you can get a few pounds of meat?

>>212704703
There was a pregnant woman who miscarried and they ate the fetus. This is not the same as intentionally impregnating women and feeding them extra for 9 months in order to eat the baby.

>>212704742
>OK so we eat all the babies, right?
>and we keep the mothers alive by feeding them each other's babies

>>212704492
They do in the book, which was really silly. You need food to give to the women so they can produce healthy (and edible) babies and don't just miscarry. The nutritional value of a baby doesn't just magically appear out of nowhere. You'd be much better off just saving the original food for yourself and eating the woman as well.

>>212704492
because it's incredibly inefficient.
what are you going to feed the pregnant women for nine months before they deliver your snack?

fellas.. should we start eating babies

>>212704810
>They do in the book, which was really silly
No they don't, they ate a miscarriage

>>212704803
You can feed them the bare minimum so they can produce a child or foetus then you can eat it giving you a food surplus overall you might also get milk too

>>212704845
They roasted a baby on a spit.

>>212704810
Consider that they will be also producing milk, for many years even, as long as they keep getting milked daily. It would make more sense if that's the real value and babies are just a means to get it and a extra snack.

>>212704915
They sure did. Liberals will call it a fetus, though (because it wasn't carried to term).

>>212704826
Only commies eat babies.

>>212705036
>Where do they get the energy to produce the milk?
>Eating babies, duh.

>>212704518
>The man
Who?

>>212704826
That's quite the modest proposal anon

>>212704282
Mr. Burns

>>212700633 (OP)
why does everyone and their clothes look so dirty in these settings?
its not like they don't have soap, plenty of time to wash up
an not a single colored shirt?
i get that earth tones+dirt is supposed ro go with the depressed theme

>>212703928
different drugs entirely, retard

>>212705149
or clothes that fit them, you literally have an entire worlds worth of clothes to go through
and whats with the random bits a rag around the hands?

>>212705099
It's literary magic, I ain't going to explain shit.

>>212704877
You get far less energy out of that malnourished baby than you would from the minimal food you give to the mother for nine months. Milk included.

Law of conservation of energy. Otherwise, we'd get infinite energy today just by fueling baby farms and then burning the little fuckers for power. Incidentally, that's also why the using-humans-for-energy concept in The Matrix is stupid. But general audiences were too stupid to understand the original idea of using humans as biological processors for computing, so they had to dumb it down.

>>212702001
I’d just eat the boy, I wouldn’t rape him. He isn’t pretty enough.

>>212704810
>You need food to give to the women
That's what the mushrooms are for you dumbass.

>>212705129
The protagonist. They're just written as a man and a boy, they have no proper names.

>>212705233
So why not eat the mushrooms yourself?

>>212704282
>>212704518
the original author took inspiration from the chicxulub impact event which had similar aftermath on earth 65 million years ago

in movie/book whatever description also sounds like a impact event so its all the soil and ash from the continent wide wildfires that is dimming the sky

>>212704742
no you dont you fucking retard. it takes more calories to make the kid then it does eating them. the thing originates from a movie and some cannibals eating their newborn but they were also fucked in the head and not normal or logical

>>212705207
The Matrix thing is such a shame because the movie would be even more timeless today when we use the same kind of processing everyday

>>212705265
Babies taste better.

>>212705358
Babies with mushroom sauce.

>>212705358
Well, laa-di-daah, look at this faggot. We have have a post-apocalyptic food connoisseur here!

>>212703959
>There is literally tons of soil and fertilizer packed in stores and storehouse all around the world.

>>212705428
If there are enough mushrooms then sure.

>>212700633 (OP)
If he was going to kill and eat the kid, why would he walk up to him and start talking. He would have just shot him.

>>212702204
Evil bastard

why not eat your own cum?

>>212704877
The amount of calories required to gestate a baby is greater than the number of calories received by eating a baby.

>>212705624
>implying i dont do that already

>>212702093
They just ate his legs and arms and kept him alive for that.

>>212705581
Because he can keep him alive so the meat doesn't rot as fast. Also a dead body is heavy so he can just make the kid walk himself to the slaughter rape camp. That's what I would do.

why not just bread animals and eat them. you can literally bread chickens and feed them other chickens. or some carnivores

>>212705746
I mean, why would you do that? You're living in a world where any injury or illness can kill you. You're the father, you have 2 kids with you. Another younger male that is "good" can help your family if you die.

He's way more valuable alive then as food.

This is a rather dark thread.

>>212705484
Sure but that depends on people being smart and everything in the book and movie implies that we completely fucked it up. Groups of people probably fought wars over the remaining fertilizer bags, seeds and water. Otherwise there would be proper, old government based communities trying to rebuild as best as they could.

>>212705881
I don't doubt there people with better resources in that setting but that would undermine the whole story, the fact that they found a bunker full of food implies that people with enough money are having a good time in some underground paradise somewhere.

>>212705881
dunno never read the book. but what ? no one was rebuilding everyone just went full retard? that shit is kinda weak

>>212706075
It's not really explained how things went down but judging by how fucked everything is and how 90% of people has turned into cannibals, things didn't really go that well. There might be some rebuilding going on but we don't really know. Shit's really fucking bleak in the Road's world and people are really greedy and nihilistic.

>>212706075
You need to understand this isn't a nerd sci fi book, it's an allegorical story

>>212705068
Shalom, brother

>>212705814
>He's way more valuable alive then as food.
>then as food
>then
Uhhhhh.

>>212705747
Where would you find breadcrumbs to do this, and why would you bother?

>>212705131
Heh.

>>212705747
Yeah but what do the chickens they eat, eat? Law of thermodynamics (and spongiform encephalopathy) suggest diminishing returns

>>212706425
>>212706291
chickens literally eat everything same as pigs. you can literally feed them leftovers from the chickens pigs you eat.

>>212705835
We're all just joshing anon, lighten up

>>212706199
I think most people who survived "the thing" killed themselves via suicide or drugs/alcohol like the wife.

I have some troll physics jpgs to sell to the anons ITT.

>>212707185
Dump 'em, coward

If you don't have children, you cannot have a real opinion on this film. I'm sorry, but no, you just can't.

“Further On Down The Road”

The sequel to Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.


Come on., /lit/. Choose your own adventure.

INITIAL OPTIONS

— 1. Narrative picks up right where The Road ends. Travelers are kindly. Opening chapter describes the boy shyly making friends with the cute girl of about his own age who will figure largely in the story to come.

— 2. Narrative picks up right where The Road ends. The travelers turn out to be sadistic incestuous cannibals presided over by "Big Daddy", a grotesque Jabba-the-Hutt-like figure who rides in a covered wagon pulled by naked emaciated sex slaves. The boy soon learns his fate: he must fight to the death every week in a makeshift arena against other captured boys like himself, the loser forming the next week's breakfasts.

— 3. Narrative starts about eight years after The Road. The boy has risen steadily through the ranks of his new extended family. The group leader clearly views him as a surrogate son and potential successor but many feel he lacks the necessary ruthlessness. All this comes to a head when they are attacked by a marauding warband. After a bloody and horrific struggle the enemies are defeated, only for the boy to discover that the dead warlord's concubine is someone very well known to him . . .

— 4. Other (specify)

i read suttree this year, strong recommend its a book about being a man lost in his world spending time drinking with the dredges as a sort of penance

>>212707751
Sounds like the next book I'll read. Already read Blood Meridian and The Road.

>>212704742
Yeah but we do that with like cows because cows can spend all day eating grass, and they have biologies designed for eating low-energy-density grass and turning it into high-energy-density protein that we can eat. So they are a mechanism to turn grass, that we can't really extract useful nutrition from, into meat, which we can. Humans can't do the same thing.

>>212707751
my favourite McCarthy book

>>212708561
It reads a lot like BM without Spanish or violence and it takes place in 50s knoxville. The main character is like any man at a time in his life where he'd rather be lost

>>212703489
in the book there's a fast forward of the boy at their remote hideout seeing fish in a river because nature seems to be slowly recovering

>>212700633 (OP)
True. The dog is fed on meat that they track down with the dog. The two of them were barely getting by on their own. How else would they be able to feed 5 mouths but by cannibalism.

>>212704282
McCarthy left it intentionally vague but it's either a giant asteroid K-T level extinction event, or a supervolcano like Yellowstone going off and initiating an even worse Permian-Triassic Great Dying mass extinction event. He was a huge le ebbin science nerd and probably researched these in detail to write the book.

>>212704282
This is actually set in the same universe as the events of the Second Renaissance. So the sky covering is an effect of the humans trying to stop the machines from using solar power. Over on the other side of the planet there’s a guy in a power suit getting his arms and legs plucked off by a Sentinel.

>>212704587

>An army in tennis shoes, tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. [. . .] The phalanx following carried spears or lances tasseled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of trucksprings in some crude forge upcountry. [. . .] Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illcothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each. All passed on. They lay listening.

>>212708921
>they're pregnant, which proves they're going to eat the babies

>>212707386
"The Day" movie is a "The Road" inspired unofficial sequel , not the name , by sequel i mean it appears to be set in same universe as 'the road' , not bad low budget

>>212708956
That's how it currently works, why wouldn't it work like that in the apocalypse?

>>212704703
specifically spit-roasted. there's also a part where they find food/sex slaves in a basement and LEAVE them there.

>>212703542
Try starting with normal literacy you absolute fucking mongoloid.

>>212708921
this was an implied hallucination in the book

>>212708758
there’s no catastrophe that would do the kind of shit in the road, even a meteor would leave shitloads of plants fish and animals around.

>>212703489
>I never read the book but let me insult you for not sticking to my headcanon about something I've never read

Unironically the worst post I've ever seen on this website in like 17 years here. Good job

>>212711883
your brain is an implied hallucination

>>212703606
Incorrect

>>212712216
Gotcha to respond, didn't I sweetie?

>>212703910
They literally ditch the shopping cart at the start of the movie and make a better one later, are you fucking kidding me dude?

>>212712216
It really was impressively ignorant.

>>212712113
Nigga a KT meteor sized impact would kill everything that's not underground or bigger than a rat.

>>212712817
Prove it

There was no world ending event in The Road, it simply depicts how all Americans will live thanks to the orange piglet's tariffs

>>212709227
Looks cool, I feel someone should do an unofficial one for the dark tower.

>>212701884
fpbp

>>212705881
>>212706199
it takes place in california, doesnt it? so about what you'd expect

There are only two possible meaningful interpretations
>they are the good guys (punctuation mark to the book's overarching theme of never losing hope)
>we're not meant to ever know if they are the good guys (punctuation mark to the book's overarching theme of parenting and the uncertainty of letting your child go off into the world one day)
That we're meant to think they're the bad guys for sure is utterly retarded and has no thematic value.

Happy ending doesn't suit the tone of the movie

>>212715158
mongoloid take, tone /= themes. The tone may be crushingly bleak but the themes are not necessarily.

What fucking movie is it?

>>212715315
Le Route

>>212715315
The Path

>>212715315
El Camino

>>212715315
Road to Perdition

>>212712216
I did not read your post, but I assume you are an ESL Indian.

>>212715507
Don't listen to this liar. It is Road Rash II for sega genesis

>>212700633 (OP)
They were cannibals, the man has missing fingers.

>>212703587
The name is as obscure and veiled as It or The Thing, wow I'm intrigued

>>212703928
Kek

>>212704282
Obligatory blocked by DEEZ NUTS

>>212705814
>You're the father, you have 2 kids with you
Yes those are the emergency rape and cannibalize rations essential for survival in case he cannot find young boys in the nothingness for a certain amount of time.

>>212703489
>I never read it but
Stopped reading there.
Dumb fucking nigger.

>>212715625
he ate them?

>>212716340
yes, or fed the kid with them

>>212703489
Nice bait dickhead 6/10
>>212715315
Road to El Dorado

apparently the same director is doing blood meridian

I dunno if he can handle it. the road was very well done but blood meridian is much more of an epic, a big ensemble gang. plus there are actually some brief moments of humor. also WAAAAAAY more color is present in blood meridian

we'll see if he can pull it off

>>212703550

Problem Road 2

>>212704282

Trannys

>>212717035
>WAAAAAAY more color is present in blood meridian
i can't think of a modern director that would make a movie with decent color.

>>212717035
Blood Meridian will never happen. That would lead to constant bitching from readers and would be at best a mediocre western. No one would adapt it properly.

>>212715315
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

>>212701884
Most people would assume having a dog would mean they haven't resorted to cannibalism but I think a dog would be more useful and take less resources than an extra person thinking about it objectively.

If the apocalypse happens, I will eat the /lit/ posters first

>>212721170
Too lean. I bet /tg/ has more fat and muscle from all the LARP and throwing dices