→ in reply to @note#1746383240
The Road is the most optimistic thing McCarthy ever wrote, it says that the human spirit will remain fundamentally intact, even in scenarios where daily life is determined to extinguish it. If you’re going to make a declaration that strong, you need to see the true horror of the world to earn your conclusion. Show how black the night can get before you get to talk about the light with any credibility. And there will be light. There’s always been light in the darkness, and you don’t know that until you’ve been in a truly terrible place and still caught glimpses of it.
There’s more nihilism in modern movies where nothing ever matters and all values are disposable, but everybody’s cracking jokes, being witty, and writers are cooking up speeches about things they’ve spent their entire lives demonstrating they don’t actually believe.
