Her anguish convincingly voices the film's existential dilemma: What's the point of surviving such a disaster? In contemplating suicide, she tells her husband, "Other families are doing it" - a going-down-with-the-Joneses assertion that captures the bitterness of a dream betrayed.
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While there's no shortage of horror here, some of McCarthy's most disturbing passages have, wisely, been excised: Scenes that are shocking on paper would be merely gruesome on screen.Īnd while I've yet to read a McCarthy novel with a well-developed female character, the movie gives us Charlize Theron as Mortensen's wife. Joe Penhall's script naturally takes some liberties with the book, often for the better. (My brother, whom I brought to the screening to get a family man's reaction, said it made him want to go home and hug his kids.) Considering how little dialogue they have to work with, they create a remarkably believable chemistry. Their moments of father-and-son tenderness - reading stories by firelight, or sharing a Coke plucked from the ashes - defy the devastation around them, and are made more poignant by it. So why watch? Mainly for Viggo Mortensen, who plays the father (and who is most recognizable as Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings trilogy), and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee, the son. There's no character development - as in McCarthy's book, neither father nor son even have names. That's pretty much the whole movie right there. That's the backdrop for The Road's ill-clothed characters and deliberately threadbare plot: A father and son wander southward through the ruins, seeking warmer climes, food and shelter from marauding cannibals.
(Not coincidentally, much of the movie was shot here.) The End Times, in other words, look like February in Western Pennsylvania. In contrast to that vanished world, he uses a washed-out palette to depict a washed-up planet, a post-apocalyptic landscape of lifelessness and despair. This is the life his characters have lost, the one we fear losing. So director John Hillcoat begins his movie, and periodically interrupts it, with lush images of a rural/suburban American idyll. But at the heart of this film, based on Cormac McCarthy's searing novel, is a feeling many of us share: Somewhere over the horizon, somebody is readying bombs that, one way or another, can destroy our way of life. In an era of flu epidemics, climate change and terrorism, nuclear Armageddon is one nightmare scenario that doesn't keep us up at night. Wow this was a fascinating movie to say the least unlike other apocalyptic movies this doesn't have any zombies or something like that this is what I would call a realistic post apocalyptic movie there's a reason this movie is rated r it shows what would probably be a real life post apocalyptic world when watching this movie you feel unsure of what's going to happen and nervous this movie shows what dark and terrible things mankind would do to stay alive and let me just say some of the things in this movie are absolutely despicable the only thing I found unrealistic was the ending I would have rather seen something along the lines of the kid ending up a survivor and getting his act together instead of just staying like a boy I think something like that would have been more believable and realistic than him finding a "good guy" to take Carr of him as dark as it sounds I rather would have seen him turn out like Ellie from the last of us than stay an inefficient boy.Have gun, will travel: Viggo Mortensen, in The RoadĪt first blush, the premise of The Road - a father and son trying to survive in a world devastated by nuclear war - seems oddly out of date. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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