Its anxieties are existential rather than socio-historical. It’s hard not to feel we’re living on the precipice of cataclysm.īut The Road is the kind of apocalyptic story that reminds us that as mortal humans we’re always living on a precipice. Particularly after this November-whether your concerns about Armageddon are rooted in climate change or nuclear proliferation -it’s easy to see where this recurrent fictional setting is coming from. Just two years after No Country, however, Dimension Films released an adaptation of McCarthy’s The Road, his novel about a man and his son-identified only as The Man and the Boy-surviving in a post-apocalyptic America.Īpocalypses are a dime a dozen in today’s pop culture landscape. It was assumed that Blood Meridian, the author’s best-regarded work, would finally find its way into cinema, although that project has yet to materialize. The success of No Country for Old Men in 2007 paved the way for more adaptations of Cormac McCarthy’s Western-influenced novels.
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