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Pretty sure the Road didn't state what had happened specifically because it has nothing to do with a nuclear war?

Indeed, it is not explicit, but it is akin to a nuclear winter: soot everywhere that obscured the atmosphere, killing crops and making farming impossible.

It could be other events (supervolcano eruption for example), but a nuclear holocaust would be similar if not too many bombs are used.

From the film, even the crazies theories of a nuclear winter weren't close.

Nuclear war doesn't do much.

I think a meteor or supervolcano is also impossible from the scenes in the film, not having lots of things growing within a month doesn't fit really, but it'd be an interesting discussion.

Obviously this is why it's not mentioned, so people don't get wrapped up in the details about how it happen but the story.

It was an asteroid impact event.

Also, The Book Of Eli.

no, just no. This was a terrible film. Does not compare at all to the book or film of The Road

SPOILERS:

The premise revolved around there being no copies of probably the most printed book on the planet, yet there other books. Even a collective, whose mission is to find all the books and knowledge it can (someone read Asimov), can't find a bible. They found a Torah, but couldn't find a bible.

Awful film.

Because as part of the plot, it is explained that those were specifically burnt for years (if I remember correctly, because religion was what started the war or something)?

Movie's still not great, but there are reasons they don't find Bibles :)

I enjoyed it :-) But in this context I am talking specifically about the post-apocalyptic world, the way the few remaining mass-produced items from before, are now valuable commodities (he says something like, people will kill you now, for something we used to just throw away before The Flash), the barter economy (eg. how he gets his battery recharged), the water, the hand-shakes...

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