All The Tropes

The Road/YMMV: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

The Road/YMMV (view source)

Revision as of 23:49, 10 February 2016

805 bytes removed ,  8 years ago
no edit summary
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
No edit summary
Line 1:
{{work}}
 
=== The original novel [[The Road]] contains examples of: ===
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: One scene switches to first person. Another has the man display advanced medical knowledge never mentioned again.
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: The fact that the line "carrying the fire" appears here and in ''No Country For Old Men'' hasn't gone unnoticed. One theory has it that ''The Road'' is a distant sequel to ''Old Men''. Another theory is that everyone really ''is'' in Purgatory and that the boy is their savior.
Line 12:
** That's assuming they planned on eating the baby. It could have been a stillbirth, or died after birth.
** There's also the question of what happened to the rats, roaches, and other small, fast-breeding animals that are more resistant to catastrophe than humans are. And the question of how the cannibals managed to avoid scurvy on a diet of nothing but human flesh.
 
=== [[The Film of the Book]] also provides examples of: ===
* [[Fridge Logic]]: The family in the end {{spoiler|somehow survived by scavenging what the father and boy missed despite being four people and a dog? How does that work?}}
** Just because it's called The Road doesn't mean there is only one road.
** The Man and the Boy {{spoiler|''could not take everything'' in the shelter when they abandoned it. It could be that the reason the family took on the boy in the end was in thanks for leaving all that food behind.}}
** {{spoiler|Also the dog could be used to find hidden stashes of food that humans would miss.}}
* [[Selfish Good, Selfish Evil]]: Both the father and mother, but for different reasons. The boy is the exact opposite.
 
{{reflist}}
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1365177"