A Boy and His Dog

When people hear the phrase "post-apocalyptic" films, they usually think about extremely violent low-budget action films set in deserts that are supposed to represent modern civilisation turned into wasteland. Most of these films were made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, inspired by the success of George Miller's *Mad Max 2* and newborn fears of nuclear annihilation during Reagan's years. However, post-apocalypti…