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Hoo, boy. An apocalypse. What brought it on? Our money’s on that one guy with the hair leaving One Direction. No society can survive when it finds itself so suddenly directionless.


Transcript

00:01

We speak student!

00:05

[ scream ]

00:06

The Road

00:07

Apocalypse

00:08

a la Shmoop

00:10

[ dog barks ]

00:12

What brought on the apocalypse?

00:16

You know, the only clue that we get in the book is

00:19

there's one line where --

00:20

It's a flashback to when the world, in theory, ended.

00:24

You see the man looking out the window with his wife.

00:27

And he hears a few low - he calls them concussion sounds.

00:31

And then a flash of light.

00:34

That's all we know.

00:36

You know, let your imagination run wild.

00:37

We kind of have to imagine that

00:41

there was something building up to it,

00:43

because when this happens,

00:44

the man starts running the tap water. It's a really cool scene.

00:48

He starts running the tap water

00:49

and he starts running the bath.

00:50

And his wife turns to him and says,

00:52

"Are you gonna take a bath?"

00:53

And he says, "No."

00:54

And you realize he knows he needs the water.

00:57

So he's turning -- He sees this and he knows.

01:00

He basically knows the world was ending.

01:01

So we kind of get this idea that something was

01:03

building up and it wasn't just this one thing that happened and everyone was like,

01:07

"What?" He kind of had this sense when it happened.

01:10

But again, not knowing what happened

01:11

makes it scarier. It's something we can't prevent.

01:14

It's something, you know, it might be happening to us right now

01:16

and we don't even know it.

01:18

When we see the movie, we kind of get the idea

01:19

that maybe it was a nuclear war.

01:21

The film kind of gives us that sense.

01:23

But we really have no idea and it kind of allows you to

01:26

basically take your absolute worst fear

01:28

and assume that that's what happened.

01:30

And that's part of what's so creepy about The Road.

01:33

[ pen writing ]

01:35

Do we know what brought on the apocalypse?

01:38

Why not?

01:39

Did the man know it was coming?

01:41

How do we know?

01:46

Isn't he that villain from X-Men?

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