A deeper view of our impending doom will probably come out of the "The Road" directed by John Hillcoat, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy of the same name. Here we don't get any of the cosy shreds of commentary that comes from prophesising how the world will end; no explanations are offered. Nor do we have the hope of a new messiah. All there is man and earth trapped in a relationship that has disintegrated and with it all the ethics and values that held human society together. This could be taken as an environmentalist allegory, but I think that is far to positive. Whats at stake here is mans belief in himself as a creative force and the destruction and incarnate chaos that lurks behind this presumption.
"The Road"
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