Noah's Castle - The Complete Series [DVD]

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Having known that throughout the book, I think I would have been better able to see things from his father's point of view, and the moral dilemma would have been more compelling. Nessie thinks everything her father is doing is wrong, she finds is abhorrent that her father thought ahead and hoarded food for his family when other people are doing without.

It also highlights the fact that what we now think of as preppers would once have been thought of as food hoarders—which is to say, not as admirably self-reliant individualists, but as the enemies of the rest of us.Noah's Castle was a gut-wrenching glimpse into the lives of family members who aren't all on the same page. One of the things I found most interesting about this story was how normal society started to break down in the midst of a crisis. When people are not able to easily (or at all) obtain food, the seemingly strong fabric of society frays almost instantly. Noah’s Castle tackles all of these issues to varying extents, but to my mind its lasting power lies in the sensory rendering it provides of how it might feel when a society actually, in real time, starts to collapse: everything pretty much normal, maybe just a bit worse—with a background noise of helicopters, sirens, smashing glass, running feet, and tolling bells gradually growing louder in the background. Post-apocalyptic literature is gripping exactly because it examines how society could collapse and how we might respond.

The story is a personal one too, which adds brilliantly to the unease—small, seemingly casual details like changes in the organization of school meals gradually ratchet up the sense of breakdown. Suddenly one day, your father loads you all into the car and takes you to your new home, a huge old house in need of lots of repair, in a very different part of town. In the darkness of his basement, Norman has assembled a horde of supplies; canned beans, rice, vegetables, oil, and even medical supplies. He treats his wife as a upper level servant who isn't intelligent enough to be brought into his confidence. The book proved divisive, some publications praising it upon release for the progressive nature of its politics, while others, including London’s Time Out magazine, described it as right-wing propaganda, a reputation that deepened over the years as paradigms regarding the discussion of race and immigration progressed.

I'm also glad that the previous commentator mentioned the opening title sequence as being so memorable . DISCLAIMER: Note that inclusion of a title within our catalogue does not guarantee rights or print availability for a specific territory.