This movie is probably the most realistic Endtime scenario Hollywood has brought forth to date, and many people, including the medieval seer Nostradamus have foreseen such times of famine so great "that man will become a man-eater," giving reason for serious concern about whether this might actually be a realistic peek into our future. We know from Jesus' own words in the Gospels, that a "time of great tribulation" is awaiting mankind, such as has not been since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24).
Of course, such thoughts bear very little entertainment value, and we're not likely to find the movie among the top ten favorite films of all times of very many people, except maybe for the occasional pessimist, who's just waiting for the day he'll be able to tell us, "I knew this would happen someday." Thankfully, the makers of this film had enough sense to not let this film be non-stop agony without any hope. The young actor playing the leading role in this film (Kodi Smit-Mc Phee) is truly one amazing kid, and you root and hope and pray for him to make it throughout the movie, against all the odds.
Testifying of some deeper insight than just creating one heck of a bleak scenario movie, the maker even gives us one prominent reason for the fate that has befallen mankind in his not all that unrealistic portrayal of what might be our future, if we don't change some fundamental attitudes: When the father and his son are sitting on the beach (presumably on the East Coast), the boy asks his dad, "What's on the other side?" - And after pausing long enough to have come up with some substantial answer, all the wisdom and insight the father comes up with is, "Nothing;" reflecting quite accurately the general attitude of the average citizen of the world's presently predominant nation regarding the rest of the world: it simply doesn't even exist, as far as they're concerned. Adding, "Just another father sitting on a beach with his son somewhere."
Of course, such thoughts bear very little entertainment value, and we're not likely to find the movie among the top ten favorite films of all times of very many people, except maybe for the occasional pessimist, who's just waiting for the day he'll be able to tell us, "I knew this would happen someday." Thankfully, the makers of this film had enough sense to not let this film be non-stop agony without any hope. The young actor playing the leading role in this film (Kodi Smit-Mc Phee) is truly one amazing kid, and you root and hope and pray for him to make it throughout the movie, against all the odds.
Testifying of some deeper insight than just creating one heck of a bleak scenario movie, the maker even gives us one prominent reason for the fate that has befallen mankind in his not all that unrealistic portrayal of what might be our future, if we don't change some fundamental attitudes: When the father and his son are sitting on the beach (presumably on the East Coast), the boy asks his dad, "What's on the other side?" - And after pausing long enough to have come up with some substantial answer, all the wisdom and insight the father comes up with is, "Nothing;" reflecting quite accurately the general attitude of the average citizen of the world's presently predominant nation regarding the rest of the world: it simply doesn't even exist, as far as they're concerned. Adding, "Just another father sitting on a beach with his son somewhere."
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