Dating in the Apocalypse
Seriously, Watch Whiplash So upon request I thought I’d spend this blog post comparing some of the ideas from No Country for Old Men and The Road. Both of these novels were written by McCarthy, and frankly both are very grim. They’re nothing like the opening scene of La La Land where people are dancing and singing a wonderful song in traffic and just for a short while you forget about the existential dread of being single for the last seven months. God that was an amazing movie. I often listen to the soundtrack on the way to school and I think my sister is becoming increasingly concerned about a developing obsession with Damien Chazelle who directed both Whiplash and La La Land . Also if you still haven’t seen Whiplash , I’m disappointed but forgive you. Watch it tonight and forget about actual responsibilities like AP Literature blog posts. McCarthy wrote No Country for Old Men a year before The Road . No Country for Old Men was a thrilling novel because of it’s non-traditional...