Just saw "The Road" *may contain spoilers*

[dropshipbob]

Upon watching this movie, I wondered if it would be possible for most of the population to turn cannibal. I suppose that would be the logical progression seeing that there was no wildlife to hunt and canned/processed food would become scarce after a few months.

Do you think this would happen in real life? And do you think you'd keep from it if it meant your own demise?

It is startling to think you'd have to be watchfull day and night for anyone you came across might be looking to eat you. Could you imagine living like that? Or worse, can you imagine killing people...women and children, without remorse with the intent to eat them? I don't see that as an easy option, even to save my own life.

 

[Betamin]

If animals were scarce, people probably would turn to an easier prey, such as other humans. The will to survive can push a person to do a lot of things they normally wouldn't do.

That was a very grim but very good movie. I imagine it's how things would probably end up being in the event of a war or cataclysmic event.

 

[El Duderino]

Smoked human, sounds good!

 

[Betamin]

Smoked human, sounds good!

:lol Perhaps with pork and beans and a nice malt liquor............ (the fava and chianti would be hard to come by, I'm guessing....)

 

[Mercury]

You need ketchup...it makes everything taste good!:lol

 

[wuher da brewer]

Mmm, Long Pig! :lol

 

[TK1536]

I'm sure I could, no doubt.
I watched this movie last night and while a really well done film, it was also really depressing and chilling.

 

[El Duderino]

I agree, I thought the movie was very realistic, unlike many end of the world type movies, I could actually imagine being there and experiencing life like that.

 

[Goonie]

Just think of it as recycling and going Green. :cool

I watched The Road last night. I thought it was a decent flick.

 

[SurferGeek]

Grim, dark and depressing movie...

 

[Kerr Avon]

Of course some would, they'd do anything at all to survive. Some wouldn't, but there would be some who would for sure.

 

[Art Andrews]

I watched this movie last night and while a really well done film, it was also really depressing and chilling.

I tend to like dark and depressing movies, but I walked away from that one just shaking my head and wanting to find something worth smiling or being happy about.

In regard to the OP's question, I think all you need to do is turn to history for the answer to your question. When there is no food, people will eat whatever is available and the need to survive often supersedes all morals.

 

[Pauleysolo]

Extremely depressing film- and very well made.

 

[SupMyNerfHerder]

Upon watching this movie, I wondered if it would be possible for most of the population to turn cannibal.

That's actually exactly what happened on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) when they could no longer build dugout canoes after cutting down all the island's trees for logs to roll those stupid (but beautiful & haunting) Moai statues from the volcanic quarries down to the coast in a futile attempt to impress the gods of the island in the vain hope of bringing back fertility to the soil (after generations of burning brush following each harvest, rendering the volcanic topsoil sterile).

The only reason people ate people in "The Road" is because people killed the environment first, which in turn could no longer sustain plant and animal life. Same reason in "Soylent Green," and same reason on Easter Island. Rent the Kevin Kostner produced movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110944/

Pretty historically accurate, aside from the romantic drama, in a very condensed version of events, of course.

:confused

Dan

 

[SVTStingRay]

wow great but incredibly sad movie. pushes humanity right to the brink. what would you do to survive. i read somewhere some people were calling it the greatest non-enviromental movie.

 

[the_batdemon]

I think people would turn cannibal for the reasons given here. Didn't they do it on the soccer team's plane that crashed in the Andes?

I agree with Art Andrew's comments. After seeing the movie in the theater, I had to go find something happy to bring a smile to my face.

 

[dropshipbob]

I think people would turn cannibal for the reasons given here. Didn't they do it on the soccer team's plane that crashed in the Andes?

True, they did. But, they only ate parts of the bodies of those that had already died.

 

[micdavis]

I guess since I don't have an ego that makes me think my life is more valuable than anothers, I'll just starve, or put a bullet in my head.