Journey into Subconscious

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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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The Overstory

Powers' Pulitzer novel about trees and the humans who fight to protect them

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The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Princess Mononoke

Miyazaki's most complex environmental fable — nature and industry locked in tragic war

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Drive

The film that launched a thousand synthwave revival projects

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable