Food and young women - the ultimate commodities

I like how well the movie showed what are the most important commodities in life. These are food and sex. Instead of "sex" we should say "young women", because sex with a young woman is the only kind of sex that has any real value. These commodities become especially important in pre-civilized or post-apocalyptic world, which are dominated by men because they have the necessary physical strength. Women can only survive if they seek protection from men. But only young women have anything to offer to men, older women are basically useless in this world. Young women don't have an easy time, however, because they have to be constantly on the lookout for potential attackers.

In The Survivalist movie we can see how men are constantly trying to steal the young girl. Another post-apocalyptic movie that shows the battle over young women, is the appropriately titled French movie The Last Battle (1983). Some additional movies that include a similar theme are 28 Days Later and Mad Max Fury Road.

Some post-apocalyptic movies, however, downplay the importance of young women. For instance, in Waterworld (1995) a community presents one of their young girls to a lone drifter to have sex with for free, which makes absolutely no sense.