Change In Apocalyptic Stories: "Disaster Porn Is No Longer The Point"

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Disaster porn is no longer the point of the apocalypse. It doesn't matter how the world ends, just that it does. Making it to the End doesn't mean the story's finished; much of the time, it's only just gotten started. Stories of the End have never been about ending -- they're about the beginning that comes after.

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Comments

[thrdr]

Nominee for best end-of-the-world novel ever: Thomas M. Disch's "The Genocides."

[FrankenPC]

Yeesh... the Road was a brutal book. I hope they do justice to it in the movie.

[doublels]

Yea, the book was amazingly hard hitting. It stayed with me for months.

[thrdr]

I've seen the trailer, and I have my doubts. With an occassional exception (say for instances where there's a great screenwriter's or film director's involvement) it's gotten to the point where I no longer look forward to film adaptations of books I've read. McCarthy's novel is full of horrors but it is also an astoundingly intimate narrative, and McCarthy never explicitly explains or even describes the world-wide disaster that precedes the story of the man and the child; apparently the movie shows it happening, with lots of CGI, which of course is what Hollywood execs want to feed film audiences (and yeah people buy it and eat it up like candy). Also the kid in the movie looks a little too old. Sounds like the movie will be more "disaster porn." But the book, in any case, is still beautiful.

[FrankenPC]

It was better not knowing how the world ended because it was irrelevant. The questions always were: Were these two the only remnants of humanity left. And what's going to become of the child.

[HeevenSteven]

The future ain't what is used to be; eh?

[wadenelson1]

Bolon Yokte' has promised to clamp down HARD on apocalypse porn the day he returns, in 2012.