Thank you Sock, for sharing this. I did watch the whole movie after you posted - yep, I stayed up very late! I had never heard of this movie before.

A warning to anyone who hasn't seen this movie and still plans on watching it - I am going to talk about some of the scenes, so I may give some of it away. If that bothers you - you might want to watch it and then read this thread.

One of the things I am kind of obsessed with is how to bug out after a major emergency or societal breakdown. Where I live at the moment, I would just stay here since I live in the mountains. But even here there might be situations where I would have to leave. And I imagine lots of people from the cities around us would head this way.

After watching the whole movie, I could see where traveling in a group might be advisable and have it's advantages. I would tend to want to travel in a very small group, but bands could over-take you very quickly. So I can see where having a lot of people traveling together would be a safer situation, even though it would also be more visible. There are advantages and disadvantages to both ways of course.

They covered some of the things I think about, like people getting sick or injured and being left behind. People having different kinds of carts to carry their things in. Rape, killing loved ones. etc. etc. I don't remember any scenes showing how they filtered water.

It seemed to me that they didn't try very hard to carry those that needed help. To me it seems like keeping babies with you would be important, because we would need children to repopulate the country. That is just how I see it.

One scene that made me mad was killing the man and his wife at their home. They didn't try very hard to get what they needed without killing them. I know the man had a rifle, but it just all happened so fast. I might have to watch that scene again, so I can see what happened closer.

I hope something like this never ever happens!

Joy