The Road

Let me say up front that I’m not usually a fan of roads. They tend to be full of cars, which are great to ride in but they make dashing after a squirrel quite precarious. But the road in The Road, I like. Why? Because you can walk on it! Bye-bye cars.

In The Road people eat people, which I honestly hadn’t thought of--people are made of meat?--and that’s kind of a shocker. The pack dynamics displayed by the people are loose at best, with little of the loyalty one comes to expect from a proper pack.

The reason for this chaos is readily apparent: there are no dogs. I’ve said it before (I think) and I guess I’ll have to say it again: if people think dogs are their best friends now, just wait for the zombie/alien/cannibal apocalypse! When the chips are down, help your dogs so your dogs can help you. (Spoiler alert! Okay, there is one dog, which travels with the only group of people who have retained their sense of a pack. And if that's not a lesson I just don't know what is.)

I think that when the end of the world comes, rather than running to the supermarket and eating all the fish and meat I can find, I’m just going to head for the hills. People are too crazy.