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The Road (2009)

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Director:

John Hillcoat

Starring:

Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker, Michael K. Williams

Genres:

Action-Adventure, Drama, Thriller, US Premier

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

MA

Languages:

English

Running Time:

106 min

The Road

synopsis


Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men), The Road chronicles the desperate fight for survival of a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in a post apocalyptic America where protecting him comes at any price.

Travelling across a barren landscape where almost nothing has survived, the two experience extreme hunger and cold, avoiding both lone bandits and hoards of cannibals who will stop at nothing to stay alive. A story of human endurance and hope, The Road is an absorbing, amazing and extraordinary journey.

member reviews

 
Images no match for words
S. Knoll
26 July 2010
member rating

As in many page to screen adaptions, this film looses a lot of the book's poignancy. Back story is introduced where none was needed in text, the horrors of human behaviour are dampened, and the boy and his father seem somewhat at odds - their relationship stripped of some subtle threads that bind them. It is definitely a powerful and visually beautiful film. The landscapes are real; the earth stripped bare and burning. Mortensen is eminently good, the boy too, although not the sharp, intelligent boy of the novel, he inspires perhaps too much sympathy. Though sometimes confronting, the film strives too hard for pathos, destroying the delicacy of our sensibility and the subtlety of the spark of hope.


 
Poignant

19 February 2011
member rating

I've read the book and this did it justice. Well captured.


 

Janine Mengis
06 November 2011
member rating

Quite different and a bit confronting but still a watcher!


 
 

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