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e road a heavily disguised robers duvall plays a small role as an almost kurosawa type taoist old man walking alone role blind of course duvall s character can see into the past and future like some itinerant sage he represents both what the world was and what it will be i guess mortensen and his son are striving to escape duvall s fate but need to embrace the old man to learn from the past mistakes of humankind to not go back or along the road they leave it and its many dangers soon after in denzel washington s book of eli america is a far different kind of place though in both movies cannibalism and lawlessness rule although gary oldman playing the evil carnegie does organize a town providing water security and barter barter becomes the chief means of trading just like we saw in mel gibson s mad max series which has become the granddaddy of this expanding genre the first stage in all these dystopia post apocalyptic movies is a breakdown of order what i call mad max level one then the rise of gangs graduating through to reestablishment of order the rebirth of small towns like the aptly named bartertown in eli carnegie takes the place of tina turner s aunty entity ruling over his private domain eli s style contrasts with mortensen s eli is a hardy adventurer turned crusader guardian of the book at some previous point eli had received a message from the holy spirit that he was to take the holy book to the west and his enemies would part before him or something like that clearing the route for eli down the road to salvation and rebirth an atmosphere of fear plagues the road while denzel rises above it like some superhero invulnerable to the many evildoers plaguing the post apocalyptic world mortensen is anything but the hero hiding and scampering and only reluctantly killing he retains his humanity perhaps because of his son even as he slowly dies from injury and starvation eli never dips below his moral principles which have come to him in a supernatural believers would call it divinely inspired way mortensen s character seems more possessed with simple survival scampering away even from a stocked shelter out of fear when he hears scampering above which survival methodology is more probable well mortensen s is realistic while denzel s is pure hollywood i was struck by similarities in the book of eli s world and the popular computer game series fallout both have nuclear war as the force majeure causing tetwawki in scorched out flatlands we see craters caused by nuclear warheads pockmarking the ground radiation doesn t seem to plague the survivors much in denzel s world which is one where the holy bible has becomes a much treasured item sought by oldman s dark hero carnegie to control minds and exert power the bible you see is blamed for much of the destruction and every last copy burned by survivors of the holocaust implausible though it might seem the bible that eli denzel carries is the last in the world personally i found this premise unlikely considering 1 the number of bibles in use today and 2 the value of the bible as a source of spiritual strength which would be more in demand after than before the apocalypse the road is scary because we don t know how much time passes between the beginning of the crisis which begins softly as mortensen draws the blinds against a nighttime sky lit red with fire and the time he and his son leave on the road in the book of eli a whole new generation comes of age referring to eli and carnegie as old timers who are a shrinking group the road makes the impending trip a scary but unavoidable tragedy simply for lack of food they must travel the dangerous road some time into the calamity the wife of the man we don t learn the name of mortensen s character nor hers played by the beautiful charlize theron can t handle the gloom and wanders off into it the road is the darker of the two you leave the film in a bit of a downer i guess it s the cannibalism or to be more accurate the dark symbolic imagery of cannibalism the skulls on stakes here the human captives locked in the basement the cold callousness of tortured calls felt as much as heard when mortensen and his son wait out in the dark nearly becoming captives themselves it hit me after the film that it s cannibalism rising in such a world that bothers you in book of eli cannibalism is brought up slyly with dark humor a couple invites eli and solara into their house serving them tea in a shaking like a leaf if there were any left way which is apparently a symptom of some disease i d never heard of before where you eat too much lean red meat i guess if the cannibals could only devour hungry humans their meal items would likely be starving as well as provide a food source lacking much fat in the book of eli eli is checked for shaking hands by a guard at the entrance to carnegie s town demonstrating that cannibalism was reviled even by the robbers and rapists who frequented the town in this regard hughes world reconciles itself to ours a little more the instincts of the townspeople are still humanist at their core despite all the inherent post apocalyspe divisiveness and individualist nature of survivalism hope the greatest treasure if the sole purpose of these movies were to warn they d have done that excellently at perhaps the price of a depressive experience for the reader viewer instead hillcoat and eli s hughes push a ray of optimism into the inherently dark backdrop if not for the characters trudging through the wasteland then their offspring and followers in the case of book of eli it s the pretty yet overly self confident for such a time and place solara played by mila kunis both movies do cradle hope at their core like any dystopia movies expressed vividly are the uglinesses of the post apocalyptic world more subtle yet beckoning are the little glimpses into a future less stained by violence and destruction a world where reconciliation is possible in the book of eli the bible ends up getting delivered to alcatraz island where a small but committed team of re constructionists attempt to assemble the knowledge lost from the pre apocalyptic world it s an effort at re humanization we can all appreciate i saw on a discovery special not too long ago about what would happen during times of starvation apparently people have been documented traveling vast distances as they starve often spiritual leaders arise who promise to lead their people to a promised land we know also that extreme hunger can cause delirium hallucinations and the like so the notion of a long distance march may be quite plausible in a dystopic environment especially one driven by mystical or religious experience some inner motor must lead us on blindly during these times of starvation in that sense the exodus like wanderings are a demonstration of faith the inner experience of belief in hope instead of confined to the spiritual world our physical longings are brought to reality through the unifying event the apocalypse and all the woes it spawns including of course hope in the infallibility of nature and faith in our fellow man dark future fantasies i ve always been a fan of movies like the omega man with charlton heston in that movie heston is the sole surviving human immune from a virus at least he thinks so until discovering others like him one aspect of these kinds of movies are the circumstances under which these scenarios which could occur and how the concordant dystopia would unfold or society unravel how did we get there we think of these thinks mostly to prevent them i guess or perhaps better cope with them should they happen though how someone will react is anyone s guess trying to determine a time that tetwawki occurs has become can be a bit of a challenge i guess when law and order break down and laws can no longer be enforced we ve entered mad max level one gangs will rise in such an environment interestingly we don t need an apocalypse to cause tetwawki nor do we need a nuclear winter nor zombie vampire takeover to start the dystopia ball rolling tetwawki is a subjective experience a child leaving their home could mean and an end to all their expectation of the world outside if it s limited to that we ve had plenty hells on earth they need not require much space at all heck a serial killer s basement could provide the setting once started the dystopia ball gets rolling and further acts of depravity increase as civilization breaks down this is the lesson of both movies the dark specter of fear that colors the stories in each we cringe at the the thought of losing what we hold dear it s a threatening notion that strikes us on a personal level it s not so much the actual apocalypse that gets us and provides a compelling story line but the shocking realities that ensue we enter these movies not as voluntary mary poppins style wanderers down the yellow brick road of endless smiles but instead are pulled dragged unwilling prisoners to the dark side of our nature the idea of dystopia makes for good entertainment precisely because we want to see deep down inside of some repressed part of ourselves nature exact some vengeance george carlin sums it upped magnificently in his video clip from 3m15sec on saving the planet as well as in his hbo special life worth losing unavailable on youtube at the moment people are drawn to natural disasters because they want to experience their mortality or to contradict the arrogant notion that people are masters of their universe floods and calamities are nature s way of getting back or so carlin iterated deep down inside we may all dread yet almost expect calamity to strike disaster films have grown more popular with scenarios of global warming asteroid collisions and similar issues some of which humanity can endure it s the purpose of a movie to entertain so rare it is to see a movie where all the humans die off i can t think of any titles the road comes close to killing all hope as you develop a personal attachment to the survivors it s hard to wish anyone dead but dying is a typical condition in a post apocalyptic world the movie 2012 which i saw recently as well echoes the theme of worldwide calamity yet even there africa survives even if america doesn t the 70s saw a jolt of these movies airport7_ the poseidon adventure etc see a list of here about halfway down the idea of getting wiped out en masse has been central to entertainment for some time perhaps there s some auto response in our brains that let s us accept death should it come through some wild event affecting us all simultaneously maybe the shock of the attack releases a surge of serotinin or some naturally biological response takes over kind of like what s thought to happen to animals killed and eaten alive on the african savannah observing these victims in their death throes the animals often seem quite docile despite what must be an immense desire to flail and kick internet movie database imdb com references the book of eli the road the omega man complete synopses for the movies are available at all links labels apocalypse disaster dystopia movie review posted by jbpeebles 11 32 pm 1 comments monday august 02 2010 myths and lies guide u s policies we re seeing the culmination of bp s gulf oil spill pr campaign in the mainstream press the event has been characterized as winding down surface oil has become harder to see or so they report also the media consensus not entirely supported in fact is that the oil no longer poses the threat it did fishing grounds have been reopened the other looming issue is whether the well can be closed bp has been saying that the wellhead has been secured but other leaks and seepage in the area raise doubts whether the well and not just the wellhead is really sealed this week a top kill effort to inject cement and mud from above and below through the relief well will occur the use of toxic dispersants is the real backstory the media doesn t want you to hear about the dispersants have created a new problem airborne oil the oil is in tiny globules which can be lifted into the rain clouds that form over sea which then blow inland and deposit the oil along with whatever chemicals and fumes are associated with the spill we ll see unreported in the mainstream media naturally reports of acidic strange smelling rain of chemical burns in vegetation as well as a telltale oil sheen in the rainwater as it flows into gutters the scope of contamination could move quite far north whatever the chemical composition of the rain it s safe to say it s something people want to avoid we ve traded one problem the oil for a couple more surface oil for more sub surface oil plus the dispersants bp s logic for using dispersants has been clear from the beginning to hide the scale of the disaster by eliminating as much surface oil as possible bp has sought to avoid transparency in regard to how much oil it s collected from the leaking well so it d be keeping with the trend to oversell the well s possible closure while claiming the amount of oil at the surface and hence below as well are dissipating the pr perception game limits public admission of realities that contradict bp s it s over theme bp seeks to claim it s over as a way to limit its ongoing responsibilities in the matter the media will simply echo what bp and the coast guard say enshrining the company s pr with government granted credibility denying victims their legal rights on the legal front bp is demanding that those who receive compensation from bp sign away their right to sue we saw this before in the management of compensation for the families of 9 11 victims new york attorney feinberg managed both bp s and fedgov s system of 9 11 payouts he s got experience in damage control which is likely why he was chosen if bp s 20 billion is handled anything like compensation for 9 11 first responders we re in trouble recently a bill compensating first responders was killed enraging congressman weiner of brooklyn on the house floor weiner rightfully berated congressman king of new york for his non support of the bill offering payments for the responders many of whom have died as a direct result of their intervention into the asbestos laden smoke of the fallen towers in the first hours after the calamity see the video at huffpo not paying the sick responders is truly callous fedgov views us small people as expendable and our legal rights as dispensable our government has become so tolerant of corporate polluters and their lobbyists that oversight and punishment are mild even for as egregious and criminal a spill as the deepwater horizon or massey energy s coal mine explosion without the ability to hold bp to account through the courts it s unlikely the victims will ever receive their just due already feinberg has told all the fisherman and boaters who ve helped lay boom that whatever pay they d receive would be deducted from any cash awarded them by bp let me get this straight bp by its negligence el...
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