Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Theres some spoiler stuff here for “The Road” so consider yourself warned. Also, this is probably the last Im gonna mention anything about it until the movie comes out.

Theres a scene where the father and son have exhausted their meager food supply. They haven’t eaten for days and they scavenge and scrounge through every place they stumble across. Over the years, everything has been picked clean and theres nothing to be had. Theyre weak, starving and the dad feels that its only a matter of days before they die. Then he stumbles across someones backyard bomb shelter hidden under a few inches of topsoil. They find cases of canned goods, fuel, clothes, toiletries, and are thus saved from starving to death. The boy wonders why this stuff is there and the dad says:

Its here because someone thought it might be needed.
But they didnt get to use it.
No. They didnt.
They died.
Yes.
Is it okay for us to take it?
Yes. It is. They would want us to. Just like we would want them to.
They were the good guys?
Yes. They were.

There you have it. We’re the good guys. Next time you wonder if youre just being paranoid and wasting your time and money, think about that – youre one of the good guys.