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Couple of things: first, if the movie implies an asteroid is the cause of the disaster, it is not in keeping with the book, which keeps the explanation vague enough to allow for multiple possibilities but leans more toward nuclear catastrophe through subtle plot details than asteroid-caused catastrophe. By the way, the details of such aspects are deliberately vague - they help us see the story as allegory and focus on its core themes. Second, I find it depressing and sad that a leftist journalist who has lived in an Bay-area sociopolitical echo chamber for most - if not her entire - life appears to be dissing what may be McCarthy's life's masterwork primarily because she finds the conclusions he has come to about the essence of humanity after a long artistically-accomplished life to be "trite". This is not an intelligent, sensitive, or enlightened approach to art and does readers a disservice.
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@nforandulaho: It doesn't imply an asteroid clearly; it keeps it fairly vague. I think I remember reading somewhere that McCarthy intended it to be an asteroid strike.
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@nforandulaho: The Road is a good book, but McCarthy's life masterwork? Someone needs to read Sutree and Blood Meridian.
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