This actually woke me up and is somehow upsetting me

This seems accurate.

It is upsetting. Post-apocalyptic nightmares often are.

Particularly as part of the educational regimen of “ things are shitty now, but we guarantee a promised land at the end of your struggle”

..could argue it’s also a religious allegory in that vein

isn't it technically pre-apocalyptic

or, I guess they moved into the extinction events, so... straight apocalyptic

Oh this realization makes me want to lie down

I think because the main characters already experienced the upheaval caused by their apocalypse, it falls into post-apocalyptic

Post-apocalyptic refers generally to the fallout experienced as the result of disaster, and dystopian refers to the the new societal structure in place (which is in this case no adults willing or present to care for youth, instead consuming all resources for themselves)

Yeah, watching that movie again with R has been interesting. (I won't anymore because it trips too many triggers for me, but I've seen it recent enough to be horrified with it.)

...yeah. Tho preschool to young school age i think?

I definitely have read it as a religious allegory....

....fair