Yes the movie was depressing but I thought it was very well put together. Anyways, the saddest part I think is when Vigo took the thief's cart and clothes. Yes they came back but the scene just got to me
shareIn the novel, I felt no pitty for that *beep* The saddest part for me was viggo's death scene and when his wife left him. That part was much more explicit in the novel as well.
shareThe saddest part was when the boy didn't die. He really should have.
shareI have to agree. That scene with the thief really bothered me. He was just trying to survive and I probably would have done the same thing. But to take his clothes was a bit much. I just finished the movie and I can tell that scene will bother me.
shareThat scene hit me the hardest as well. Everyone is trying to survive and they all steal from each other. He could have taken back his cart but to leave the man without even the clothes on his back. That was cruel. For someone who didn't want to hurt others, he sure set that thief up for a horrible death.
shareHe "didn't want to hurt others?" What?! By stealing everything they needed to stay alive, he didn't want to hurt them? Yes he did. He wanted to hurt others, if it meant he could prolong his own life. The thief was an unethical criminal.
If their were a society, that thief would have tried and punished.
There is no society, so it came down to the most personal level. Should he have left the thief active to hurt other people? That's not ethical, is it?
The toughest part about this movie for most people, as I have observed, is the difference between their sense of morality versus ethics. Tough decisions need to be made, and they offend morality. But they are still ethical.
The Man became a thief by stealing his clothes. The Man's act was not a tough decision, merely a knee-jerk act of revenge.
shareThe toughest part about this movie for most people, as I have observed, is the difference between their sense of morality versus ethics. Tough decisions need to be made, and they offend morality. But they are still ethical.
To me, the saddest part is the very end when the boy realizes that they should have just stayed in that bunker, when the Man thought they were in danger.
shareThe food was stolen from the bunker in the first place
shareHas to be the thief scene. That's too cruel, leaving him like that is worse than shooting him.
shareIt wsn't the saddest to me, but it was very, very well done. Michael K. Williams really overcame the tendency to typecast him with this role. He's an actor to watch. I just hope the scar does't limit him too much.
The saddest part to me was the last scene between the Man and the Woman. For personal reasons. But the entire film is pretty sad, as after all it should be, with the topic of the end of the human species, personalized by an innocent child.
For me the saddest part is in the book. When the boy goes swimming, has a good time, but starts crying right after it, hugging his father...
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I agree
Watching Mortensen's desperate begging crash against Theron's stone-faced resolve was heartbreaking, especially with (a younger) Smit-McPhee in the background.
A close second is in the Well-Fed's house. Both of them in the bathroom, trapped and facing a fate worse than death. The Boy was not pleading for his life, or begging for The Man to not to it, but his shaking voice, "Will I see you again...?"
Gets me every time.
I really agree, although the action is sort of needed to show how Viggo has been changed by his trials. He's part of the world that failed, an sadly that comes with the bad as well as the good. You should see my three minute review on the film! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osbWnJEgiao&list=UU8VP6Z1phcPenxq-Hcee6VQ
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