In The Road, shit went down and most life on Earth has been wiped out. It's never entirely clear what the cause is, but that's really not important. The sky is filled with clouds and the global temperature has fallen. There isn't enough light getting through the clouds, so all plant life is dead. The food chain has broken down and all animal life, except for man, has died off. This story follows a father and his son as they walk the road, which I assume is a euphemism for life, and struggle to stay alive. The scenes cut between the father trying to teach his son how to survive and the pair's experiences with man's inhumanity to man. While the movie isn't nearly as graphic as the novel, it seems many of the important events are covered and the viewer gets just enough of set-up to understand what's going on. The worst of it is the cannibalism, which is a repeated source of horror and trauma to these travelers. I went into this movie expecting to come out in a deep state of depression. Actually leaving, I wouldn't say that I was bouncing on sunbeams, but I didn't feel that bad. The ending is just the slightest bit upbeat and hopeful, if there's any chance of hope living in a global apocalypse. On the downside, the movie felt s-l-o-w and very nearly boring for long stretches. That's probably because there wasn't much action or dialog or anything, really going on for most of the picture. I think that's kind of the point and I wouldn't entirely hold that against the movie as it did an excellent job of capturing the scene... It just made for a very slow movie that felt several hours longer than it's two hours would suggest. News
The Road
Dec 6th 2009, 19:30
In The Road, shit went down and most life on Earth has been wiped out. It's never entirely clear what the cause is, but that's really not important. The sky is filled with clouds and the global temperature has fallen. There isn't enough light getting through the clouds, so all plant life is dead. The food chain has broken down and all animal life, except for man, has died off. This story follows a father and his son as they walk the road, which I assume is a euphemism for life, and struggle to stay alive. The scenes cut between the father trying to teach his son how to survive and the pair's experiences with man's inhumanity to man. While the movie isn't nearly as graphic as the novel, it seems many of the important events are covered and the viewer gets just enough of set-up to understand what's going on. The worst of it is the cannibalism, which is a repeated source of horror and trauma to these travelers. I went into this movie expecting to come out in a deep state of depression. Actually leaving, I wouldn't say that I was bouncing on sunbeams, but I didn't feel that bad. The ending is just the slightest bit upbeat and hopeful, if there's any chance of hope living in a global apocalypse. On the downside, the movie felt s-l-o-w and very nearly boring for long stretches. That's probably because there wasn't much action or dialog or anything, really going on for most of the picture. I think that's kind of the point and I wouldn't entirely hold that against the movie as it did an excellent job of capturing the scene... It just made for a very slow movie that felt several hours longer than it's two hours would suggest.