+15 questions about this ridiculously nonsensical movie

ok, Mr Troll, I'll bite....

The kid was not fat, not did he have chubby cheeks. I'm not sure what you're thinking of here. He looked vulnerable and frail to me.

They survived until the resources ran out, or they were forced to vacate for any number of reasons. Pick one, and go with it.

He may have seen them prior to their migration south. He had books, as the Man had taught him to read. Does this matter?

They took the food - as much as they could carry - with them. Being barricaded in a hole, with only one exit, is dangerous. The man knew that if he found it, then others could, and they'd be sitting ducks. The whole point was to move south to the coast, not to the first bomb shelter they come to.

The Blind Man was used to being kicked around by people he met on the road. When the Boy offered him a chance to eat with them, he asked what he had to do. I'm sure he had to do some awful things, if the not-so nice people made him offers to eat.

He's a kid. You were kid once, you may have kids of your own, or know people that do. That sentence alone explains a lot. If you don't understand that, then it's ok, but you should think a little harder, than trying to be funny.

Being scared could. Desperation makes for a very different mindset too. Malnutrition and starvation not only affects the body, but the mind too.

They might have. In the novel both the Man and the Boy were sick. Colds, Flu, Strep Throat, measles, whatever require contact with others. Not a lot of people out there to make contagious disease widespread. Did they look healthy to you?

I don't think he meant to cough in anybody's mouth. I dunno if it was TB. Could have been. Looked like it to me too, but it could have been anything.

Again, the Boy looked healthy to you? Rub some more dirt on him? What makeup is slimming to you?

maybe they ate something bad, Maybe the Boy caught a fever from the Old Man? Maybe living in those conditions wears your health down so much he got sick on his own. Malnutrition destroys your immune system, coupled with the environment they lived in. Maybe he caught a virus from the Well-Fed's house.

I'm not sure what you mean here. He would rather end his life quickly, rather than be subjected to the horrors of their life without him. Or as the Man lay dying on the beach, he wanted his son to live, and hopefully find a better life. Isn't that what all parents want?

The Man is finally going over the edge, and the constant brutality and frustration has finally gotten to him, at the disappointment of the coast, and at their stuff stolen. He feels like his son is not sharing his level of rage and frustration and panic. In his own panic the Man feels he has to do this.

I think they knew the Man was dying. They also saw that he is now unhinged and thought it wise to shadow them, just to see what's what. Good thing they waited, rather than have a confrontation.

We don't know about the Family. They say they have a safe space, and that they might be looking for people to help them. The fact that it was a family, and not some raod gang, brigands or cannibals might be a good thing. Luck is the running theme of this movie. Whenver things are at their worst, something always comes through in the end to help them. The Boy meeting the Family is just the final example in a long string of them.

You sure have focused on a lot of off-the-wall stuff about the movie. You've really nit-picked the bejeezus out of it. Surely another viewing not focusing on the above questions might be in order for you. Or, read the novel it's based on.

I'll respond based on seeing both the movie and reading the book.

1- The kid was actually remarkably thin- in fact there have been numerous reviews and posts I've read that commented on it.

2- For some reason I had the impression he was a sort of armchair prepper. He had a stocked more isolated home, somewhat like the one they found traveling south, stocked with food that the family owning that house had been unable to reach in time. The old man mentions they had been warned but most people refused to believe whatever happened would happen. I always thought the man did believe it and had taken at least some precautions.

3- The family that found him at the end still had a dog. It's not inconceivable that he had encountered dogs when he was younger and in fact in the book (if not in the movie) the man mentions that he knows why the boy keeps hearing dogs and I always wondered if maybe the family had had one when the boy was younger and ultimately ate it- maybe telling the boy it had run away or something to that affect.

4- In the book he hears someone walking overhead. It was the father of the family that ultimately takes the boy in at the end. Hearing that the man panics and he leaves.

5-In the book the man mentions "communes". Again you're left to wonder where and what they were but the old man may have been thrown out of one relatively recently or been forced to leave due it's collapse. I've also thought the family at the end could have been in the same situation of belonging to a commune or leaving one recently. At the very least they prepared better then the man.

6- I don't know that he was scared of everything. Again I imagined he was raised in something of a sheltered existence, in that their group of cohorts was undoubtedly small and we just don't know how much of what was going on was shared with him. He seems to have a pretty simple view of the world of "good" and "bad" guys. I think their trek south and east was maybe the first time he had been out in the world.

7- See above answer.

8- They may have gotten sick. They may have had medicine. That would be my guess.

9. I missed the scene where he was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. I figured it could be cancer or from breathing too much ash laden air or who knows what. We only know he's sick and afraid he's going to die.

10- See answer to question 1.

11- We don't know they were starving before starting their trek. The man was concerned they wouldn't make it through another winter as far north and inland as they were but we don't know they were yet starving. The weather was turning worse and hadn't they been caught in icy conditions/storm (maybe that was just in the book). That would have contributed to illness, along with possibly weight loss from the journey and lack of food after losing their supplies and the general effort require to walk the distance they were headed.

12- The man is hoping his son will survive and things will get better. He can't bear to kill his son for anything but the most dire of circumstances.

13- He carries the child because he's afraid of losing the child. He's afraid the child will trip or otherwise fall behind. As his one purpose is to insure the child's survival he carries him.

14- They're the "good guys". Somehow they seem to have been better prepared and have thought ahead better then the man. The book touches on this very subtly. As I mentioned above perhaps they belonged to some sort of commune and are trying to help save survivors. Yes, probably for breeding stock. Any hope for human survival relies on it.

15- See above answer.