Do you not think that its purposefully left ambiguous for a reason? McCarthy need not focus on why civilization ended, what is important to him is human nature.
Whatever the cause of the tragedy...I take this movie about how he loved his son. It made me truly think. I have kids of my own that I love totally. This movie and the acting is powerful. A great movie.
Les Glover That and how when the world is visually screaming at you thar it’s over, and it’s never coming back, you have to dig into yourself for myth, values and traditions to find hope.
though the cause of the cataclysm was ommited the opening monologue states "the clock stopped at 1.17, there was a long shear of bright light and a series of low consussions" This gives us an indication of a electromagnetic pulse (EMP) consistent with a nuclear explosion or natural occuring EMP
+Iseekknowledge Highs, and lows. Mostly lows, I get it. Nothing I say will change the way you think. "it's cold and getting colder." Stick around. Just one more day. Keep telling yourself that.
Darastrixx A meteor would cause multiple concussions. Aside from the breaking apart of large chunks of the rock parts of earth would be pushed into orbit and be pulled back down. Also it was probably nearby because if the whole world was affected as bad the beetle would not have made it to them.
This is the way I feel every day... Just surviving to survive. It fucking sucks and I want to blow my brains out but I dont have the guts. Life = Hell.
+Iseekknowledge Hang on tight. It gets better over time. Life is way to precious to be taken away because of a bad phase or period of depression in your life. Things get better after this. Life goes up and sometimes down. You will be stronger than ever, filled with the wisdom you took from these lessons in your previous state. Those emotions you are feeling right now are the things wich make you alive and human. Cherish them so you can take it as a lesson once you enter a positive and happy phase in your life. Just hang on tight please.
+Autry Welch thanks bro. I'm flying. things have gotten so much better. I have an amazing girlfriend I love dearly, I havey health, been working out, pain is at a minimum. life is going as good as I could imagine. peace and love brother!
i dunno even if that did blow it would be no where near this level of destruction a full scale nuclear exchange is one of the few things that could go this far and its the only explanation for all the plant life dying and also nuclear weapons don't vaporize that much most of the damage comes from the shockwave and the fallout isn't that bad compared to a nuclear meltdown and will only be highly radioactive at ground zero of the explosion
***** Still thou its eruption would mostly only affect the western hald of the United States ive looked at a lot of the projections for ash spread as well it would be more of a localized event but it would screw the climate up and throw us into another mini ice age but a all out massive nuclear exchange could possibly have comparable results
***** Most plausibly, given our current situation, it would be the failure of a massive geoengineering (albedo modification) scheme to halt climate change.
This can't be anything like a nuclear war or solar flare because the radiation would kill them too. Baldness is also a side effect of prolonged radiation exposure and ten years of that stuff is just too much.
+Justin Colon Nuclear bombs get detonated in the air, they only leave residual radiation under their detonation point. So no, people wouldn't die of radiation.
But that still wouldn't explain the death of every living thing such flora and fauna. That requires significant atmospherically and planetary alterations, which a meteor or nuclear winter wouldn't achieve (although it would to some degree regarding climate change). Regardless of the disaster, life goes on.
It could in fact be a nuclear exchange, considering the effects of nuclear winter. In simulations even relatively minor exchanges between countries like india and pakistan produce such effects (though not to this level). If there was a massive enough exchange, (and yes, some ppl would probably survive it) effects such as in the movie could occur.
I don't know, nothing is one giant smach, not even nuclear weapons. Repercussions where felt miles around after the original nuclear launches and they thought it was an earthquake....
VERY unlikely. Solar flares/CMEs, even the strongest known by the sun like the Carrington Event of 1859, do not harm the biosphere. The Earth's magnetic field protects life from the worst of the radiation. But solar flares/CMEs pose a grave threat to modern civilization, because the strongest can damage and destroy the electrical grid and electronics. Massive numbers of people would die, initially of dehydration (water dlievery systems would fail), and starvation (transportation would be shut down, except for things like bicycles and horses). And disease and civil violence, too. But CMEs leave the biosphere intact. Isolated indigenous people would not even notice the difference, except for the auroras which would result from a solar flare. People who know how to live off the land could survive, unlike in this situation. And eventually the survivors would relearn how to farm without modern technology, though it might take centuries.
Jeremiah 19:9King James Version (KJV) 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. No comment....
TheLord SilverCockroach Thank you for your comment, i think it's just a BIG Warning like the description of the hell in middle Ages....If you not change maybe this hell came....Jacques Ellul wrote reals prophetic words in sociology and about Faith who are achieve now.....
I agree it was more of a natural disaster than a man made one. I doubt a nuclear holocaust would cause natural plant and animal life. Would a nuclear winter also cause the clocks to stop with an affect on magnetism? I image solar flares or a meteortie would.
"The child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God then God never spoke." Best quote in the movie and book.
i was actually just thinking how much i love this movie despite this pretentious line
@@knuthamsun6106pretentious?
@@knuthamsun6106 Pretentious? Oh brother.
Do you not think that its purposefully left ambiguous for a reason? McCarthy need not focus on why civilization ended, what is important to him is human nature.
Most realistic movie ever
Except the dog at the end, although they didn't show his legs, ie. whether he still had them. Perhaps they were keeping him for food.
Whatever the cause of the tragedy...I take this movie about how he loved his son. It made me truly think. I have kids of my own that I love totally. This movie and the acting is powerful. A great movie.
Les Glover That and how when the world is visually screaming at you thar it’s over, and it’s never coming back, you have to dig into yourself for myth, values and traditions to find hope.
Incredible.. Just incredible
I like the ambiguity surrounding the apocalypse, seeing as the ‘how’ doesn’t matter.
though the cause of the cataclysm was ommited the opening monologue states "the clock stopped at 1.17, there was a long shear of bright light and a series of low consussions"
This gives us an indication of a electromagnetic pulse (EMP) consistent with a nuclear explosion or natural occuring EMP
There's a meteor theory.
Yeah EMP as far as I know doesn't have the effect on plant and animal life that is present in this movie.
Very moving.
This is already a true story for those like me with serious depression. It's totally hopeless and emotionally painful.
+Iseekknowledge
Highs, and lows. Mostly lows, I get it. Nothing I say will change the way you think. "it's cold and getting colder." Stick around. Just one more day. Keep telling yourself that.
Fat
Yep, sucks to see the world without ignorance
Just one day at a time my friend
We all have our own roads. Love you man. Keep moving forward one step at a time...
Great movie
Darastrixx A meteor would cause multiple concussions. Aside from the breaking apart of large chunks of the rock parts of earth would be pushed into orbit and be pulled back down. Also it was probably nearby because if the whole world was affected as bad the beetle would not have made it to them.
This shouldve been the actual trailer.
Probably an asteroid or super volcano judging by the suffocated atmosphere and dead plant life?
Honestly possibly the most depressing movie I've ever seen in my life.
I liked it.
Thank you!
This is why you need an assault weapon.
This is the way I feel every day... Just surviving to survive. It fucking sucks and I want to blow my brains out but I dont have the guts. Life = Hell.
+Iseekknowledge It gets better
+Iseekknowledge Hang on tight. It gets better over time. Life is way to precious to be taken away because of a bad phase or period of depression in your life. Things get better after this. Life goes up and sometimes down. You will be stronger than ever, filled with the wisdom you took from these lessons in your previous state. Those emotions you are feeling right now are the things wich make you alive and human. Cherish them so you can take it as a lesson once you enter a positive and happy phase in your life. Just hang on tight please.
Hang in there man! I know this message is old. Hope all is well.
+Autry Welch thanks bro. I'm flying. things have gotten so much better. I have an amazing girlfriend I love dearly, I havey health, been working out, pain is at a minimum. life is going as good as I could imagine. peace and love brother!
Iseekknowledge That's freaking fantastic news my friend! Great to hear. Enjoy every moment man!
Indeed. but i presumed the asteroid turned the clock off at 1.17, but decided to leave the house intact!
I imagine its a nuclear war situation and nuclear winter due to the whole the clocks stopped at one part
i dunno even if that did blow it would be no where near this level of destruction a full scale nuclear exchange is one of the few things that could go this far and its the only explanation for all the plant life dying and also nuclear weapons don't vaporize that much most of the damage comes from the shockwave and the fallout isn't that bad compared to a nuclear meltdown and will only be highly radioactive at ground zero of the explosion
***** Still thou its eruption would mostly only affect the western hald of the United States ive looked at a lot of the projections for ash spread as well it would be more of a localized event but it would screw the climate up and throw us into another mini ice age but a all out massive nuclear exchange could possibly have comparable results
*****
Most plausibly, given our current situation, it would be the failure of a massive geoengineering (albedo modification) scheme to halt climate change.
1.17 was probably the explosion of the Yellowstone caldera.
This can't be anything like a nuclear war or solar flare because the radiation would kill them too. Baldness is also a side effect of prolonged radiation exposure and ten years of that stuff is just too much.
This wasn't a volcano, or solar flares.....this is what it looks like a year after Godzilla.
+Justin Colon Nuclear bombs get detonated in the air, they only leave residual radiation under their detonation point. So no, people wouldn't die of radiation.
But that still wouldn't explain the death of every living thing such flora and fauna. That requires significant atmospherically and planetary alterations, which a meteor or nuclear winter wouldn't achieve (although it would to some degree regarding climate change). Regardless of the disaster, life goes on.
It could in fact be a nuclear exchange, considering the effects of nuclear winter. In simulations even relatively minor exchanges between countries like india and pakistan produce such effects (though not to this level). If there was a massive enough exchange, (and yes, some ppl would probably survive it) effects such as in the movie could occur.
Super volcano.. Then nuclear winter
Nuclear war wouldn't destroy all animal and plant life, for the that the atmosphere would need to be strangled which war wouldn't achieve.
Maybe they saw "studio lights" instead of a "bright light"
Isn't it the "Famous Day of the Lord..." ?
Solar flare
I don't know, nothing is one giant smach, not even nuclear weapons. Repercussions where felt miles around after the original nuclear launches and they thought it was an earthquake....
Could have been a sun burst
was it a solar flare or cme
VERY unlikely. Solar flares/CMEs, even the strongest known by the sun like the Carrington Event of 1859, do not harm the biosphere. The Earth's magnetic field protects life from the worst of the radiation. But solar flares/CMEs pose a grave threat to modern civilization, because the strongest can damage and destroy the electrical grid and electronics. Massive numbers of people would die, initially of dehydration (water dlievery systems would fail), and starvation (transportation would be shut down, except for things like bicycles and horses). And disease and civil violence, too. But CMEs leave the biosphere intact. Isolated indigenous people would not even notice the difference, except for the auroras which would result from a solar flare. People who know how to live off the land could survive, unlike in this situation. And eventually the survivors would relearn how to farm without modern technology, though it might take centuries.
Lyrics plz
It was nuclear war
Jeremiah 19:9King James Version (KJV)
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
No comment....
So God will cause people to eat each other. How "all loving" of him...
TheLord SilverCockroach Thank you for your comment, i think it's just a BIG Warning like the description of the hell in middle Ages....If you not change maybe this hell came....Jacques Ellul wrote reals prophetic words in sociology and about Faith who are achieve now.....
Jean-marc Monoré good definition of love is the adequacy of wills :-)
@@redguard20002 if you deny him
obviously nuclear war right?
Maybe a volcano though but seems farfetched to cause a global Ice Age.
But radiation
there have been super volcanos in the past the blocked the sun for 10 years. check out lake toba in wikipedia
Meteor crash, spewing magma and rock into the atmosphere. Rocks crash back dust, global winter, fin
I think its a nuclear war . because in the books summary says ''what appears to be a recent nuclear holocaust ''
Yes and my physics teacher explain me that the radiation doesn t effect all the world only zones
I agree it was more of a natural disaster than a man made one. I doubt a nuclear holocaust would cause natural plant and animal life. Would a nuclear winter also cause the clocks to stop with an affect on magnetism? I image solar flares or a meteortie would.