What I love about "The road" (both in a movie and a book) is that it shows the post-apocalyptic world as horrible, very depressing and hopeless, not some super adventure.

The movie was a truly chilling and realistic commentary on human nature. Some of the scenes are still in my head. Truly an intense film.

I love the Road, great book and movie. I think I have seen first hand what The Road was like. I was down at Port Bolivar shortly after hurricane Ike, there was no grass, lots of collapsed houses, the ones still standing where damp, and discolored, even the sky looked grey. We had to sleep with one eye open. One of our friends found a box with some canned spaghetti in it, they where still good. Someone even tried to steal my father's truck. I know that isn't quite an apocalypse but it felt like one for a while.

The book captures it more than the movie.

I think the 72 Hour figure for the grocery stores is flawed. We had a BIG windstorm here in 2007. The milk, bottled water, and batteries were gone in 90 minutes! Food shelves were emptied in FIVE HOURS! Power was out for 6 days. My wife & I heat with Kerosene, so we were covered there. We had candles, so there was light. We had a one-burner propane stove, so we could heat canned food. Where WE came up short was gasoline & water. That has now been corrected. We now have Solar & battery backup, As for your comment about being better off without guns in Canada----When China or N. Korea attack, WE are the FIRST people you'll be screaming at for help! While I am not a "Rambo" type in any way, and I personally wish we lived in a world where guns weren't needed, I am a realist. I'm not a huge lover of guns, and I ALWAYS prefer a peaceful resolution. Having said this however, if my wife or I are ever assaulted, I'm thankful that I have an equalizer. I don't love guns, but I'm NOT afraid to use one in self-defense.

In certain circumstances, I believe stores will be stripped in less than 12 hours. Imagine every person in the country suddenly realizes there will be no more food/supplies. Think Black Friday, times 500.

The worst thing about the prepper movement are those survivalists who are the tactical weapons assholes. Those people who think they will be a post apocalyptic lone wolf Rambos who will defeat all with their weapons will be the first to be killed. The survivors will be those that try to avoid a fight - if they have to fight they will fight but only fight long enough to get away like seen in this movie. I am not against being armed - be armed but avoid combat. What if in the combat exchange you win but are wounded? What then? The first rule of martial arts is avoid a fight. Second rule is get away from the fight after the initial blows. Keep distance between you and the enemy.

Main thing to learn from "The Road" have a decent firearm and a good supply of ammo.

I also live in Canada. It is actually pretty easy to get your firearm licence and purchase guns. I took a 2-days firearm safety course for both restricted and non-restricted firearm and submitted my application with the RCMP. After they conducted a reference check and criminal check, they issued me my licence. I now own a shotgun. I prefer long guns instead of pistols because it is a lot of hassels to own restricted firearm. Therefore, I recommend you to buy long guns once you get your licence and all you have to do when you purchase your long gun and ammo is to show the seller your licence to the gun shop. You can even buy ammo at both Walmart and Canadian Tire. I also recommend you to get the Benelli Supernova Tactical shotgun with 14" barrel and a collapsible stock. It is a very short barrel shotgun that this Italian manufacturer has designed for Canadian gun owners. In US, the minium barrel length is at least 19" or 18" if my memory serves me. If Canada ever suffers a societal collapse where there are no more law and order, I doubt we will need to worry about police coming after us for using our guns to defend ourselves. That being said, I still hope I will never have to use my firearm on a human being. If the people can riot and trash their own city over the loss of a hockey game, imagine what they are willing to do when they starve.

The Book of Eli is a pretty good one also...

One thing I learned from that movie is that a revolver is probably the best gun to have. They are basically indestructible and they always fire even if they aren't properly maintained.

Your biggest mistake in this.. "Next year I'm gonna.." ;-) There's no time like the present, because, what if there is no next year?

Bare minimum I would recommend that you get a shotgun. Pump action, you can get one with an 18 inch barrel or not, doesn't really matter. shotgun ammunition is easy to get, and cheap. A shotgun is very easy to learn how to use, and it doesn't turn heads like an AR15 or even a handgun.

"Good" is a convenience that our society allows. If shit hit the fan your own neighbors who you talk to and get along with will kill you for food if it means survival. It is easy for people to say "I would never steal, I would never eat someone, I would never hurt anyone" etc, when you live in a society where you do not have to do any of those things to survive. If you look at Venezuela right now you have people killing each other for a bag of flour. These people never thought they would resort to such actions, but when your stomach is growling and your body is consuming itself - You shake off your reservations and do what you need to do to survive. Remember the movie "Alive"? It was about a south American soccer team who's plane went down in frozen mountain range. They were trapped there for weeks, and eventually ate the bodies of the people who did not survive the crash. It did not make them evil. It made them desperate. I have sponsored children in poor countries, have given my last dollar to a man who said he needed milk for his kids, I think stealing is repulsive, and I generally help people whenever I can..... but I have also been hungry. When you are hungry, the only thing that matters to you is eating, and the means to meet that end become inconsequential regardless of your moral, ideological, or religious beliefs. Your prey, and self-preservation drive over rules all of that, and you do what you have to do to eat. At the end of the day you can store 10,000 lbs of food, have a river running through your backyard, and have a lifetimes worth of firewood to keep you warm. But if you do not have a gun to protect those things, you are only prepping for the meanest guy on the block, who will not think twice about putting a bullet in you to take what you have. Guns are priority over all else, because without a gun it will only be a matter of time before you have nothing. Thoughts on the movie: The guy raised his child completely irresponsibly considering the environment they were living in. Listening to the father teach his son about morality instead of surviving made me sick. He was basically raising a lamb in a world full of starving lions. If you live in paradise, then you can afford to do that. If you are living in a "Hell on earth" type scenario you need to teach your child how to survive in that environment, and if some of those lessons lack morality, than leave it out of the lesson. Humans and animals alike first responsibility is to insure the survival of their offspring. A pride of lions, or a pack of wolves do not prey on the largest and strongest. They prey on the sick, the weak, and the young to survive....Why? Because this is what insures their own survival. If they cannot kill food, they do not eat. If they do not eat, they die. I am thankful that I live an environment that allows morality to flourish, and I do not have to lose sleep at night over the things I have done in the hours before, but I have no delusions of what life would be like if that environment was ripped out from under me, and will not waste time on morality knowing that it will be only a matter of days before morality itself ceases to exist. I am glad you are unarmed. Because without the sheep, the lions won't be able to eat. I would however encourage you to gain some weight because you're a little bit on the thin side. If you are going to allow yourself to be an easy meal, then at least do the people willing to eat you a service by making yourself worthwhile. Maybe you will inadvertently save a life down the road. Predators don't usually hunt on a full stomach =). You have entered the mind of someone who will roast you on a spit and eat your liver with Fava beans when shit hits the fan....... Wake up call......Go buy a gun you pussy =).

possibly the most depressing movie ever made.and yet as you said one that makes you think about things differently.

Honestly I'm surprised more preppers haven't reviewed this movie. I thought it was extremely powerful and thought provoking. When they're are no colors left in the world, when everyone is tired, broken and possibly left with no one familiar to you, how will you know who is good or bad? You must be trust worthy, be strong, be brave, and be honest. 

"The Road" is good. The show "Jericho" is good as well

I have watched this movie a few times, and every single time it scares the crap out of me, for what horror we would faced even if we survived a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, or a civil war, which I believe might happen at some point in the U.S. by the way, people that think that scenario cannot happened, take a look at what's happening in Venezuela, marshal law at night, if you dare to leave at night, there is no police only robbers, and people are hungry, they raid stores looking for food, hardly any food left and it's just getting worse. I think everybody should prepare, no matter what. thanks for your comments.

Mentally prepared is the #1 thing you need to be!!

brilliant video. Excellent point of view and very practical information. Thank you for taking the time to make this video

Have a gun and no one will steal your cookie !!

"The Road" was without question, the most depressing movie I ever watched, and I am a prepper.

The day we lose our humanity is the day we no longer deserve to live.

I have an 11yr old son and that movie chills me to the core. Ive always been a prepper as a cold war kid an army reservist and the son of a retired state trooper and ive fallen victim to the one man army bravado alot of us fool ourselves with but that movie drilled home a very harsh reality and that is I cant just bug out to the woods with a wife a kid and thrive its unfeasible and it would b a death sentence for my family most likely I much more in favor of an initial bug in philosophy gather my close and trusted family members and other like minded individuals in my local community to find true protection in numbers

4:45 of course not. the kid is way more nutritious than the cookie.

In my way of thinking, in order for "The Road" to make sense, whatever disaster happened, it was an extinction event. It just makes sense, animal life hunted to extinction or killed off, plant life killed off, mass cannibalism, mass human die off, it just adds up. In that case, survival will end in you being the last man standing, alone. My point is, "The Road" is not too realistic , from a prepping point of view. If the soil and water are unable to support life, the atmosphere will follow. After a major human die off, be that from pandemic,war,global climate changes, whatever, surviving only makes sense if the Earth is still habitable. If it is, rebuild. If not, death will be inevitable, no matter how much you prep.

A man would look at it as her giving up, but a woman would realize what she really did. She took herself out of the equation willingly because she knew there was not enough food and the chances of her son surviving under the fathers care increased with her out of the picture. She knew all the mans attention would need to be focused on their son if he was going to have a chance.This is what the woman did!

No matter how well we prep, we'll never be ready as we would like to be, but doesn't mean we shouldn't try. " the more you know the less you need"

I know some folks have already stated this but it bears repeating. The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has absolutely ZERO to do with hunting, or even defense from criminals (although those are secondary benefits obviously). It is there for one reason and ONE reason only, that the American People may resist a tyrannical government. As to those who say that the presence of guns or gun laws have no affect on crime, you are naive to the point of being dangerous. To those who side with the gun grabbers, I point out this to you. You are siding with the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Let that sink in for just a minute. You are siding with the 3 greatest mass murderers in history. Also I will point out to you a very simple axiom, It's better to have (a gun) and not need, than need (a gun) and not have. I agree that gun control laws have no effect on a certain class of individual, the problem is that those not affected are the CRIMINALS, as criminals do NOT obey the law, hence why they are called CRIMINALS. Gang bangers, thugs and dirtys are going to get guns one way or the other. Gun control laws only affect those who are inclined to obey the law to begin with. This is basic logic, and beyond reproach. Liberal double think is illogical and dangerous in the real world where when seconds count, the cops are minutes away. In 8 years as a police officer I have yet to deal with a serious assault on a licensed concealed carry permit holder. Further, CCW holders commit so FEW crimes that they are almost negligible in relation to the rest of society. And before anyone talks to me about the two in Florida or the one in Texas lets look at the numbers. Two in Florida (2) out of a million CCW holders. One in Texas out of a million more. Get it through your heads. It is the same people committing the vast majority of the crime. 10% of the population committing a little over 80% of the crime. Want to talk about the murder rate in the States? Sure. Anyone want to guess how many of those killed by firearms each year are involved in illegal activity at the time of their death? Anyone want to take a swipe at the percentage of felons who are killed by other felons? Felons in the commission of a crime that are killed by either law enforcement or lawfully armed citizens? I saw a stat that 194 children had been murdered by gun related violence after that Newton shootings. Horrible! Right? Well lets look at who those "children" include; gang members under the age of 25. 25, really? The same under 25 year old's who are shot in the commission of a crime. I mean please. You have to tweak your stats in order to try and add a shock value? Then you wonder why those of us who actually study what is going on dismiss your "facts". I personally know people who are alive today because they were ARMED. Women who were NOT raped because they were armed. People who were not brutalized because they were ARMED. I have also worked some cases where maybe the person would not have been murdered, raped or brutalized if they had been armed. Sorry about the rant. But reading some of these comments about guns not preventing violence boggles the mind. My own personal story, prior to being a police officer and was still active duty Navy. My then wife was NOT sexually assaulted by a bunch of thugs because I had a 1911 pistol lawfully carried inside the waistband. They made many derogatory and sexual comments to my wife about what they were going to do to her after they dealt with me. I ignored them, handed the wife the car keys and told her to get in and start the car. One shouted "Hey I'm talking to you mother fucker". I looked at him and gave him a slight shake of the head. This POS of course took my unwillingness to engage them as weakness, as all jackals do. He and some of his his fellow POS's then decided to advance on us, and we were still approx 20 yards away from the car. I am NOT running, and emboldening their wanna be gangster bullshit, further I am NOT turning my back on a foe, you are a fool if you do. I told the wife to run to the car, cleared my shirt away from my piece, drew my weapon, swiped off the safety, and WAS going to tell them to stop or I'd shoot every damn one of them (or something to that affect). But before I could utter one syllable to them they had done a 180 and were shagging ass back to their cars. So from personal experience, my wife was NOT raped and brutalized, or God forbid murdered. I don't have to live with the shame and hate of not being able to protect my wife, and am a sane, stable and productive member of society. I will close with this. We will not give up our weapons, ever. There will be war if you try. It's as simple as that. And if this all does go down the tube, criminals attack the softest target just like energy takes the path of least resistance. IF, and please I hope it never does, something like The Road were to happen. You had better find some steel in your persona, and be able to lay aside the nice parts of yourself. Imagine this; you laying there bound and gagged while someone raped and brutalized your children, and knowing that at the end they would be murdered and you FAILED to protect them. Let that roll around in your head for a bit. The only way you hurt my kids is if I am dead first. So endeth the rant! Gunner Out!

1 month food and water and at least a cheap shotgun. If it's cold climate, STOCK FIREWOOD. Seriously, if we're talking no power "long term", firewood in cold climate becomes just as valuable as food IMO. People with a little extra food will definitely barter to keep themselves from freezing to death.

If it came to cannibalism, I do not know if I would want to be a survivor. Do you remember the scene in the movie where the father showed his young son to shoot himself in the head? When the Foreign Legion fought in Morocco and Algeria in the '20s, they would told to save one bullet for themselves as opposed to being captured and tortured. I have been prepping since the mid-90's, spending a considerable sum of money on my endeavor, after having gone through hurricane Rita in 2005 where my retreat is in rural East Texas. We were out of power for over 2 weeks. Fortunately I had a couple of generators, fuel, water and other items but felt like I was living on a subsistence level compared to what things were like before the hurricane. In a situation like "The Road," I could probably make it comfortably for about 90 to 120 days. After that, things would become increasingly problematic.

I can survive on my own and have advanced OLS and medical training as well as years of experience, but after watching this movie in 2009, I started really thinking about how I would provide food, shelter and defense for my own kids. I started picking up bushcraft and more advanced trapping skills, pharmacology, and disaster relief methodologies. If you're motivated enough in you and your family surviving, the ultimate survival tool is eachother. First show little skills to your family on a camping trip, like building a fire and a few helpful knots, then just introduce a little at a time. But if you do not secure a firearm, the next best thing is to gather a network of a few family members, friends, or people in the neighborhood and introduce the idea slowly. Build up a network consisting of initial communication, meeting place, and a quick checklist for supplies. In the absence of firearms, your defense is building up the number of loyal and reliable, like-minded and capable allies: strength in numbers. Chances are that someone will be great at things you are not good at. A small to medium group with a common goal, planning, and leadership has more of a chance of surviving than a few individuals with AKs. WROL situations are easier to deal with when your group has anticipated, planned, and learned needed skills for survival. And as a general rule, life will be easier if a responsible armed friend is in your group, but ALWAYS include a medic in your allies list. You could survive without a firearm, but chances are that sickness and disease will be the undoing if no medic is around to help.

yes, that movie demonstrates the correct method of storing and butchering your fresh meat

The implied disaster in The Road is a nuclear war: there's a bright flash in the distance when the man and his wife are sleeping and then the power goes out = EMP (electromagnetic pulse). Then eventually all the animals and plants die due to nuclear winter (clouds of radioactive dust in the sky blocking solar radiation so that plants can't grow), hence the cold and lack of food. That aside, your talking points are all good and well thought out, although I would recommend that you buy a rifle and learn how to use it. There are any variety of bolt and lever action guns in Canada, and the SKS rifle is a good inexpensive semiautomatic option if you choose to go that route. In a WROL situation, it will help you to defend yourself in the absence of law enforcement, and be an aid to hunting. In normal life, mastering the art of the rifle can be a very satisfying and fulfilling hobby, even if you never shoot anything more dangerous than a paper target at a rifle range.

The road was one of my motivations to prep as well as not take the things we have for granted. Great video thx

I think what you said about seeds at the start is what was missing from that movie. the one of the most important pieces of human social evolution was farming. it bought people together in teams and established rules for things like trade and distribution. I understand that all the plants were wiped out and they were still in some kind of nuclear winter, but they had some light and water, many crops could have been grown if people had stuck together. I'm sure the point of the movie was to show the worst of humanity vs regular people, rather than the worst of humanity vs the best of humanity. the best of humanity are the builders, not the hunters... when SHTF, you need the skills to build crops, shelters and defences. those people turned to cannibalism because they had no skills, and thought they could hunt their way to survival but all the hunting was taken away so instead of thinking about some other strategy they just found a different prey. I'm glad i watched this movie and agree with you that SKILLS are required not just weapons.

God made man Sam Colt made all men equal

The Road is what would happen in the event of Yellowstone or a direct hit from a meteor. Well done video and observation. Not owning a gun has never made sense to me as the bad guys will kill by any means necessary. They are armed and you are not? They have a knife and your do as well? Both fights will put you in harms way. Having a gun for self protection is the only way.

Prepping means nothing if you cant protect your family, yourself and your supplies. Very naive to point out the only thing between the father and sons death, which is literally 10 min into the movie, is a firearm and then go on to say it is "to be determined" whether you will own one or not. You need to own one now, you cant just go run out and buy one when you need it. It is the same mindset as prepping for food, shelter, whatever (72 hours grocery stores empty) . Protection is something that you must acquire before the fact.

Long time prepper. Enjoyed the content. Subscribed.

>living in Canada >no PAL/RPAL >hasn't picked up the SKS+1500 rounds of Chinese ammo for $400 bucks yet >"shot a bb gun tho" I was under the impression that you implied you where a prepper.

The ROAD was a Very Scary movie. You realize just how far humans will go when their world changes for the worse.

It's a fallacy that Canadians don't have firearms. If you live in the city, it's easy to believe that nobody owns guns. But having lived in Canadian cities, suburbs, and rural areas, I conclude that the further you get out of the city, the more people own firearms. Rifles are not required to be registered in Canada. An RCMP officer friend, working in one rural area, once told me that "everyone here has firearms." So in a crisis, where food and other supplies run out, city dwellers may flood into the country in search of a meal, only to encounter plenty of heavily armed rural communities who are unwilling to welcome outsiders.

The movie covers a period of about 8 years. Conception to delivery and 7 year old on the road with dad. Very thought provoking, very, very realistic. This is why prepping is important. The event happened when the wife is just barely showing, the man ran to tub and started collecting water asap. Their beans did not run out until she went into labor. He was a prepper, maybe not to an extreme but to a degree. Watch this movie, read the book. Get ready this is what life will be like after a Nuke, or Asteroid, major super volcano, etc. All it took for this man to keep his family alive for 8 or 9 years after shtf was to be ready for it to hit. FYI he used that gun a lot! "We should have done it while we had more."

I really liked the movie The Road. I think a lot of people picture a SHTF scenario as a 'fun weekend camping trip;' and don't realize the heartache and famine and disease that could possibly come along with the collapse of society. As far as firearms - even if every gun in the US was destroyed, I would still want one because they become the 'equalizer' when you face someone who has a blunt force weapon such as a baseball bat, a knife, or multiple attackers. The US would be a lot better place if the judicial system would actually start holding criminals responsible who use firearms illegally. As a LEO, I see all too often when criminals aren't given any real jail time for their gun offenses. Criminals in the US just aren't afraid to commit crimes with guns, as they know they will not be held responsible. Anyways, I liked the part where you spoke about living off the land more. I've got my food preps, I've got my ammo preps, and I recently got accepted into a group retreat near a small town away from my major city. But the next prep I need to start working on is renewing my food.

I don't know if everything will be as bad as many preppers picture it. See, I'm from Germany and my grandmother sometimes tells me about the years from 1943 to about 1948 when stuff didn't go so well for the Nazis (thankfully). In the countryside they had barely anything to eat in those years but people didn't start to steal from each other. They helped each other out. If a farmer had food to share he shared it. In return he maybe got a candle or something. The kids were sent into the woods to gather fruit, roots and acorn and people in the villages took care of each other. Obviously nowadays, we don't share the standard of moral values (believe it or not, but even during the Nazi-reign the common people did have moral values, even though they were on the evil side) and we depend more on modern technologies like electricity (which was not available in the countrysides back then), refrigerators, supermarkets etc. and our knowledge about growing and gathering food is a lot less than it used to be, but we are still the same people, aren't we? So maybe while shit will definitely go down in the big cities the communities in smaller villages will remain working and people will help each other out to get through the hard times instead of stealing from and killing each other.

I think the thing about The Road that shakes us up is that it's truly "the emd of the world". Most post-apacolyptic movies assume that after disasterbX hits, the world is a survivable place. The Road never once gives you reason to hope.

The Road scared the shit outta me ... because its could happen ..and WROL it would be dog eat dog......get prepping

2012, they were escaping in giant ARK ships (boats) as polar shift happens causing those disasters as you obviously did not actually watch the film, lol. The Road, the Earth is dying and the only food left are other people and stored foods. In the movie food can not be grown and there are no animals to hunt. The movie 2012 actually was pretty good at depicting a polar shift, if that scenario would happen it would not be an easy moment.

The Road would actually make a decent tv series. I'm surprised that nobody has ever attempted it.

Good video man I enjoyed watching.

Nice video, I watched it a while back... It certainly got me thinking...

Prepper without a gun = WalMart.

The one thing that The Road showed which probably isn't super likely to happen is the idea that a bunch of people would survive the unnamed "event", but that no plant life did. It seems even more unlikely that people were then eating each other (it takes more food to grow meat on a human, than you get meat in the end, so it makes no sense to keep a human "farm" like was shown in the film, if you're trying to stay alive). All in all, though, salient points.

Good work. I wonder if you have watched The Colony. Could you prepare a prep video on it? Thanks dude.

Honestly, the "not really sure what happened, but something happened" slant was one of the things I most liked about the movie... I think, when it does happen, it will be like that for most of us... the news services will not last long enough to provide any answers, and with all the surviving going on, who would even have time to follow it if it did? Unless you're a scientist who was already well informed about whatever, most of us will just know "something big happened, and here we are". Overall, I enjoy the movie a great deal, it's an eye-opener, and well acted, IMO. (edit) What you said about health is so true... for all the prepping videos I see, that is the one that is least recognized. It doesn't matter what tactical gear you have laid aside, how much food and water and guns and bug-out bags and all, your body is your highest-priority gear of all, none of it helps you if that one is not ready to endure survival.

8:45 You say you wouldn't want to replicate the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment for Canada. That's because either Canadians have never experienced tyranny like Americans did or there is something inherently pacifist & shortsighted about Canadian Sheople. Just an observation. I did like your video and Americans probably would come save you when the time comes.

Everyone should have chickens and a garden, easy way to start.

Dude I haven`t seen the movie, but you`ve given a lot of good insight. Greets from Vancouver BC.

One of the most interesting and gruesome aspects of canabolism in that movie was the slow consumption of living victims using tourniquets. I never thought of how the lack of refrigeration would factor in such a scenario. With no salt, refrigeration, or smoke house for meats you would have to either consume the dead whole within a few hours or allow them to live after amputating their limbs one by one. Cooking and making jerky would be the only other option I can think of. There seemed to be a part in the movie where the mother was trying to talk the husband into giving up the son who was still a baby. I assume trading him in as food for some favor. Truly a very disturbing movie. Since there was no mention of war or radiation, cometary or asteroidal impact was the most likely cause of the disaster.

the biggest lesson from the movie is Buy a fucking gun and alot of ammo!!!

It is a good movie, it just has sort of a depressing tone to it. But I think its one of the most realistic post-apocalyptic movies out there. And I like all of your points on survival, with the will to live being your base platform. I know you will be wishing you had some firearms in a situation like this - most people where I live in the U.S. South own firearms and are somewhat familiar with hunting. Like you said, the revolver in the movie was paramount. The Road I think depicted what happens to the big city dwellers after an apocalypse situation and once they exhausted their resources they band together and go out hunting en mass. So us country folks will have our canned goods, guns ammo, and have a very simple way of thinking :)

This movie was so much on point! One of my top favorite movies for shtf!

I hope you’ve leveled up on your survival skills! They are needed more now, than ever.

There's no need for the 2nd amendment in Canada until we need guns ..............well buddy that's the point of it it's there for when you truly need it

There would be very few good people left after 30 days without food..

thank you for your video i did not know of that film , it will be on my watch list..

Thank you! Message received. Prayers and STRENGTH when it happens.

Guns= Everything else...

I have often wondered how people will react to strangers approaching. Will we have good judgement as to who to let near and who to avoid? It is a scary thought. The Road is probably the closest reality I have seen in a movie. Very good thoughts, I enjoyed your video!!

For me The Road main lesson in practical terms is that to maintain life you need a shit load of stuff. Even if you have some stuff you will need a way to move it, hence the most valuable tool in the movie is a shopping cart. Water, tools, guns and especially ammo in sufficient quantities is very very heavy. A elite soldier being sent into combat without support for a week often carries up to 200 lbs in kit and supplies.

I've been "prepping" as it's called these days, since 1994, and...good motivation, survivalist mindset, basic tips video. I'm looking forward to viewing the rest.

The youth of today would lose their minds in 60 minutes [being very generous here] if their phones went off line........

I know what your talking about and I do train fishing hunting and things like that. But I fear if there really is a real scenario, the gov will come in and close the streets, roll out tanks and make everyone go to camps. This is the problem. Not surviving, but surviving the "help" that comes.

"Even if you knew what to do...What would you do?"...My favorite line from this movie. It speaks to the fact that the majority of people live in a bubble...Their normalcy bias...When that bubble pops...They just shut down...Your mental health when the SHTF will be the determining factor...You will need to be a little crazy if your gonna survive.

The average large metropolitan area has an 18 day supply of food in local warehouses. If you are assuming that the 18 day food supply will be equally distributed to the local populace than you are a dreamer.

You obviously have never lived in an over populated city in America or your stance on gun ownership might be a bit different.

Loved the movie. Watched it twice. I think its a great representation of what would happen if something happened and brought the grid down globally or at least enough where other countries couldn't lend a hand. Depressing but the ending is awesome. The family at the end is who had the dog when they were in the bunker. Their boy is the boy his son saw when the man was at his old house. It was pretty cool how they buttoned up the ending. It wasnt just a boy with a gun on his own. They brought it all together at the end. A great movie! Its on Netflix if someone wants to see it. I'd be fucked if the SHTF. I have a Medtronics Drug infusion pump inside of my body (also known as an internal morphine pump though it can have anything in it) pumping morphine and 2 other medications directly to my spinal canal. It has to be refilled every 3 weeks or taken out. It cannot run dry or its deadly super quickly. The medications are shipped from a compounding pharmacy directly to my pain dr who then refills the pump with a needle under an xray (to be able to direct the needle into the hole. Its 100% internal and nothing is outside of my body). If SHTF, its not like stopping pain meds, go through withdrawl for a week, and just be in pain (or for me, not be able to walk at all which would be deadly all by itself). Its not like I could break into a pharmacy. This shit is specially made. Its liquid. I maybe able to get liquid morphine from a hospital but how would I be able to get it into the pump? And even then, the internal battery only lasts 10 yrs (from when it was placed in me: Nov 2015). If the grid is not up by 2025 the pump fails anyway. So, I'm fucked either way. Unless I could find all medications in correct amounts and learn how to get it in there, im fucked. If the grid doesn't come up in 3 weeks. Depressing. And it makes you ask yourself why prep. But then, I live in Florida. Was caught very unprepared for hurricane Irma. I thought I was prepared enough but had no clue the power would go down for a week as she hit here in Orlando at about a Cat 3. Not a bad hurricane for us at all. Thought maybe a day or two and so thats what i prepared for. Nothing like what happened. It taught me a lot though and so I prep for that. Hurricanes and different things that happen every year. And they are indeed getting worse. The storms and natural things like that. Irma was almost a super storm. Never seen such a tight hurricane before. It had us all worried. And huge too. If she went the path she was supposed to even us far inland of Orlando would of had to bug out. Anyway, end of the world is the end of me. But the most likely thing is short term so thats what I prep for. The short term. No reason for me to prep for 10 yrs worrh of food as I wouldn't last that long anyway if SHTF and we had WOL.

Superb film. Very dark. I'm writing this from England - supposedly civilised, but three years ago we had (by your standards) a mild snowfall. The local shops couldn't get resupplied and the road conditions limited traffic to only 4x4's. My local shop was almost emptied but what was scary was the air of panic that was present - women snatching at food they probably didn't need and guys acting as if they would kill for it. ...and yet in the scale of things it wasn't even an emergency. It just goes to show how brittle our civilisation is and how selfish and vicious many people would be. Frankly I've always been a prepper - just didn't know it; my lifestyle of shooting/fishing/camping/trekking and common sense added up to it. A year ago I hadn't even heard of prepping. I have a 4x4, gun, supplies, alternative energy sources, security etc. Nothing crazy but a combination of hobbies and common sense preparations added up.

Very good show man. Good luck.

"never owned a gun, never fired a gun, don't want all the guns in Canada" translation: I know nothing about firearms but they scare me so I don't want others to have them. first time I've ever felt the need to dislike a video but you earned it good look with your defenceless prepping goals

Sir the right to keep and bear Arms is a God give right the Constitution protects that right from the Government tyranny.

I really enjoyed both of the aspects of this video. The movie and what you said.

That movie is one of the reasons I started prepping. My wife was pregnant with our first child when I saw it. It changed the way I looked at things.

love the movie.After watching this for the first time I went out and bought some ammo.

Get at least a .22lr dude! It would be mostly for harvesting food like small game anyway

Okay, you asked for comments so, here you go (sorry in advance for the wall of text) I went and watched the movie, then came back and watched your video. Here are my thoughts: 1) right out the gate, did you even FINISH 2012? They don't try to escape into space (although they REALLY try and make it sound like that's what they're trying to do). They're boats...just like Noah, because all the natural disasters culminate into a flood that just about covers the entire earth. 2) I like your thoughts on the bullet points but we need to point something out: In the movie, when SHTF, his wife was still pregnant. They didn't leave until he was already, what? between 8 and 10? If you notice when her water breaks, they have LOTS of food/water and, I'm guessing here, ammo. It is, while traveling, that they only have the two rounds left, and those are reserved for them to commit suicide. 3) I like what you said about the value system portion of the movie. To be honest, I think that is the key point to the movie (and something that the father starts to lose - as we see with the, not trying to kick up any racial remarks, but we never get the guy's name, black man who steals their stuff). Where I might differ is in the interpretation of the "fire" they are carrying. I'm not so sure that it is their value system as it is simply the will to survive. True, there could be a little more to that in that they are surviving without giving up their humanity. One thing that made me really sit back and think about is protection/hunting. As we see in the movie, ammunition seems to be pretty scarce (almost to an unrealistic point, given where in the country they are). Made me think that Bows and Crossbows are almost a necessity. Now, that being said, we can't forget that Bows take a LOT of practice. So much more than do firearms. But, especially after having watched the movie, it almost seems worth it. While hunting, if you retrieve your arrows, you can re-use your "ammo" over and over again. Not only that, you could probably make your own. To me, I'd probably use my bullets first, then fall back to a box/crossbow. Anyways, thank you for pointing this out, as I wouldn't have known about the movie otherwise. Again, I think you make some awesome points.

I saw this The Road when it came out in theaters & it remains the most real & gritty survival movie I've seen. Great summery of this film. "Carrying the fire" was the main thing that I took away from the movie.

Regarding your stance on the legality of guns, you like the current system, but the current system is designed for a best case scenario. What happens when you run into a worst case scenario? That's essence of prepping ... preparing and being ready for the worst case scenario. In a worst case scenario, you are going to need a gun because there will always be someone bigger and stronger than you, or a group that is bigger than your group. Having a gun will either level the playing field, or give you an advantage that can save your life.

I liked the movie, but I believe large families and tight communities would band together and form secure areas, perhaps even city-states. When you get right down to it, humans are a co-dependent species. The worst possible punishment you can get in prison is solitary confinement. Just think about that for a minute, even when everyone around you is a total scumbag criminal, you'd rather be with them than be alone. We crave company, and we will make concession to keep company with as many people as possible for our own survival.

I watched this movie without even knowing what it was about. it is depressing but I really enjoyed how it made me think and made me revaluate my day to day life a bit. nice video. thanks for sharing

I know about not having areal gun but what do you think about a pellet rifle with the power of 30+ foot pound of energy as a replacement?

Take cookie from kid, eat kid, then eat cookie for desser.

Mate I understand your good intentions in doing this vid but mate even in this day and age you have no idea!!! I spent 11 years in the Royal marines and have seen people kill for a cup of "clean" water I have seen in west africa a woman given a pistol with one round and then have her child set on fire and given the choice ending her childs life/suffering or her pending hell just for fun by some sick minded reb's and you think people will fight over a tin of food that hell that life for some is now!!!! Tell me if you were that woman what would you do. If that came down to a scrap of food for your childs life or another ( god forbid it ever happens I don't wish it on anyone after what I've seen) what would you do its not the survivalist mind that wins through I I know I tought it for long enough its the one that can be the animal inside that wins through being an animal will help you I don't mean eating human flesh but the will to survive and the animal inside are the same I don't give a toss what trolls think of my comment I know what I have seen and dealt with its hard it happens and well I will shut up now sorry.

The reason why the couple at the end survived, is because the couple works together, they're young (and fit), the guy appears well armed...with shotgun ammo across his chest.

I watch the road all the time with my grandma when i got out of work im prepping for the yellow stone eruption and the rapture and the zombie apocalypse I know one of em isn't going to happen so yeah

I'd say the walking dead tv series is a good reference.

Enjoyed your review - my video is in production which draws helpful hints from the rest of the "Doomsday" movies. BTW do you make a decent amount of monetization from the 5 second intro commercial or would you recommend the full 15 second that does not allow click-thru?

I love this film watched it several times. Probably about time I watch it again.

If hillry Clinton is "elected", I'm moving (forcibly) to canada. (Not saying WHERE.)