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NEW. America is a grim, gray shadow of itself after a catastrophe. A man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) wander through this post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the dream ...
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Nov 24, 2009 · I saw the movie a second time at a press screening on Oct. 27 in Chicago. I see festival films again whenever I have the chance. I find the second viewing makes the good ones better, and the bad ones worse. Such is the case with “The Road.”
McCarthy leaves the ending of The Road vague. The party that finds the boy may have been good people who adopted the kid and raised him as their own or they could very well have eaten him. I tend to think that they were good, since it was a family (wife, father, kid(s) and dog). They weren't a band of mauraders.
- The Road Has A Deliberately Bitter-Sweet Ending
- The Road Movie Is Bleak But Has Nothing on The Book
- The Meaning of The Road Ending
- How The Road Ending Was Received
The Boy May Have Found Salvation By The Road Ending
The final scenes of The Road’s ending offer a glimmer of hope — at least according to some. A couple of days after the boy’s father dies he’s approached by a man (played by Prometheus' Guy Pearce and credited as “Veteran”) who is travelling with what appears to be his wife (Molly Parker), their two young kids, and their pet dog. They tell the boy they’ve been following him and his father for some time and ask if he’d like to accompany them, offering a light at the end of the grim tunnel that...
Cormac McCarthy's Story Is Much Worse
While The Road movie adaptation is certainly bleak, the book is actually much worse. For example, there's a passage in which the two main characters pass a group of cannibals who are roasting a human baby on a spit. It's necessary for studios to make plenty of changes when it comes to book-to-movie adaptations, and The Road wasn't exempt. That being said, The Road is considered a somewhat faithful adaptation. Most changes weren't made to change the plot, but in order to make the ending of the...
The Finale Of The Movie Is Either Uplifting Or Nihilistic
The Road ending is undeniably bleak. However, the entire movie is one with a lot of depth, and there's clear thematic meaning behind the the journey the Man and the Boy take, as well as the Boy being found on the beach after watching his father pass away. A key theme of The Road is loss.The Man is tormented throughout by visions of his wife, and how she took her own life. Even in the harsh and unrelenting world the Man and the Boy now inhabit, losing her still plagues the Man's mind. This is...
The Movie Was Polarizing Thanks To The Ending
The Road was a tough movie for many fans. While critics gave it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 74%, the audience score was lower, at 68%, mostly discounted because of the fact its a difficult watch. One audience reviewer wrote, "It is extremely depressing and disturbing, as we watch the humanity drained from every character until they shrivel up, literally and metaphorically." It is an example of those fans who don't find much light in the film's ending, even with the family showi...
- Helen Armitage
joestank15 28 December 2009. The Road - Viggo Mortensen stars in the role of "Man" who contends with cannibals and earthquakes all for the safety of "Boy" (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Flashbacks to the start of the not-explained apocalyptic situation show us "Man"s relations with now dead "Wife" (Charlize Theron).
Our review: Parents say (19 ): Kids say (16 ): The Road is a well-made movie and a powerful story. But despite the characters' persistent hope, the relentlessly grim material -- including the constant, cold, gray visuals -- can be overwhelming, somewhat stalling the drama's forward momentum.
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The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The film received a limited release in North American cinemas ...
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