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The Road
Post-Apocalyptic movies are a wonderful thing. We’ve had the Earth controlled by Apes (Planet of The Apes), reverting to prehistoric times (Teenage Caveman), populated by bands of marauders (A Boy And His Dog), humans almost hunted to extinction by machines (Terminator), and someone even imagined a world where the postal service survives oblivion (The Postman). A recurring theme for the new world is to have men with Mohawks on motorcycles (Mad Max 2, 2019, After The Fall of New York, Doomsday). The Road has nothing quite so extravagant and, thankfully, neither does it have Will Smith pouncing around.
Sometime in the near future, the world has become a lifeless tundra with the human race struggling to avoid extinction. The only obvious food source is people, and survivors are forming cannibal packs to stay alive. Viggo Mortensen and his son, Kodi Smit-McPhee are walking across America hoping to find warmth and life. Their slow journey is punctuated by philosophical conversation, meetings with other survivors and encounters with the human predators. There are also flashbacks to when father and son were living with their wife and mother, Charlize Theron. The dire scenario of The Road is handled delicately and without glamour. The near endless despair is punctuated with bursts of fear as father and son are given just enough hope to keep them going.
I’m hoping that The Road, based on the award-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, will be successful enough to encourage other bleak stories to be adapted to the screen. I’ve longed to see Stephen King’s novel (written under the alias Richard Bachman), The Long Walk, made in to a film. Its portrayal of the future is almost as depressing as The Road.
fabulous sebastian
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