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movie: The Road
2009-Dec-06, Sunday 11:16 amI went to see "The Road" last night. It is an excellent movie. It's currently rated at 72% over at RottenTomatoes.com. Great scenery and sets, great acting, and great costume work. The only two problems that I had with the movie were one important scene where the acting annoyed me rather than moved me, and there was one plot point that I didn't see the justification for a particular aggressive incident. With those two exceptions, though, it was a great movie.
This movie is depressing. It's a post-apocalyptic (never explained) landscape in which the world burned. The skies have been overcast for a decade, and the sun no longer shines upon the ground. The earth, the skies, and the seas are dead. The world is grey, and for a whole 2 hours you visit this bleak and dreary landscape. There are no plants. There are no animals. The only things left in the world are humans and the things that humans created. So for food? Either you find canned goods left over from "before", or you find other surviving humans to eat.
The movie is 2 hours of desperation, starvation, and suicide, interspersed for variety with moments of horror, shock, disgust, and fear. There are no upbeat moments, except the brief flashbacks to "before". At best, there are merely moments that are free of worries. Without even giving away the story, I can tell you that there is no happy ending. I left the theater thinking that the ending they presented was probably the least awful but still plausible resolution given the state that the world was in.
Yesterday, I hadn't eaten anything but two bananas, a roma tomato, and some lettuce. So when the movie ended at 8pm and I was driving home, I was feeling rather hungry myself. I considered stopping at a fast food place on the way home, but I almost shuddered in revulsion at the absurd luxury of it. Instead, I stopped at the grocery store to buy something reasonable. The first person I noticed there was a woman almost wider than she was tall. So I did the only meaningful thing I could at that point. I bought a bag of Cheetos (see the movie) and went home to eat it with a glass of water. I could only finish about half of it, but I was thankful for it just the same.
"The Road" is a good movie.
This movie is depressing. It's a post-apocalyptic (never explained) landscape in which the world burned. The skies have been overcast for a decade, and the sun no longer shines upon the ground. The earth, the skies, and the seas are dead. The world is grey, and for a whole 2 hours you visit this bleak and dreary landscape. There are no plants. There are no animals. The only things left in the world are humans and the things that humans created. So for food? Either you find canned goods left over from "before", or you find other surviving humans to eat.
The movie is 2 hours of desperation, starvation, and suicide, interspersed for variety with moments of horror, shock, disgust, and fear. There are no upbeat moments, except the brief flashbacks to "before". At best, there are merely moments that are free of worries. Without even giving away the story, I can tell you that there is no happy ending. I left the theater thinking that the ending they presented was probably the least awful but still plausible resolution given the state that the world was in.
Yesterday, I hadn't eaten anything but two bananas, a roma tomato, and some lettuce. So when the movie ended at 8pm and I was driving home, I was feeling rather hungry myself. I considered stopping at a fast food place on the way home, but I almost shuddered in revulsion at the absurd luxury of it. Instead, I stopped at the grocery store to buy something reasonable. The first person I noticed there was a woman almost wider than she was tall. So I did the only meaningful thing I could at that point. I bought a bag of Cheetos (see the movie) and went home to eat it with a glass of water. I could only finish about half of it, but I was thankful for it just the same.
"The Road" is a good movie.