2009 Directed by John Hillcoat
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Robert Greenfield Victoria Ruskin David Lee Toth Erin Fite Joe Rynearson Jason A. Pollock Patcharee Blanchard Jon Graubarth Whitney Guerra Jr. Ella Jackson Adam Johnson Jennifer Lagura Philip Blackburn
Christina Graff Paul Graff Glenn Allen Richard Friedlander Andrea D'Amico Noel Hooper Christa Tazzeo Phillip Moses
Edward Tise Goro Koyama Andy Malcolm Leslie Shatz Chris David A. Josh Reinhardt Robert Jackson Todd Beckett David Esparza Brian Dunlop
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Every single idiot hoping for a zombie apocalypse 'because it will be so cool' should be assigned to have a sit-down with "The road". Brutal, gritty, dull and depressingly sad, this film is probably the closest to what would actually happen in the event of shit hitting the proverbial fan. (Edit: though it has nothing to do with zombies, but a planet dying in a mysterious but straightforward fashion). It's never an easy watch and it does kick you in the stomach more than once, but it is simply a masterpiece.
I don't really like luxury. It makes me uncomfortable. As it happens me and my family were invited to go on a holiday for a week by my in-laws to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary. Our destination? A five star resort in Turkey. So to counterbalance all that luxury I decided finally reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road would keep me suitably grounded, so I took it along with me. The holiday was great, the book was phenomenal.
McCarthy's novel is an astonishing accomplishment of minimalistic proze that strives to move, inspire and lay bare the human spirit and the bond of blood. It does so by incessantly terrorizing its readers with oppressively bleak vistas, horrific encounters and an avalanche of…
(As of this moment, I have not read the highly acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel, but I have every intention to do so in the near future).
A complex, muggy and devastating tale, The Road triumphs as a gritty and smart apocalyptic adventure which delves deep into harrowing territory and never relents. Substantially exploring its strong moral core and distressing atmosphere, The Road is quite possibly the most realistic and blunt film about the hypothetical destruction of civilization that I have seen. It takes a popular and overused idea and transforms it into an original and investing journey which resonates more than might be expected. The film transcends the conventional sci-fi, 'end-of-the-world' spectacle and materializes into an intelligent and emotional film…
If you are in a depressive state, or have mental issues, then this is the last movie you should see, because boy, this movie will rob you of all hope.
So yeah, after hearing so much about the movie, I finally decided to watch it and, as I mentioned above, this is probably one of the best depictions of the Apocalypse in any medium. The gray cinematography further emphasizes the sense of dread and despair that the world out leads inhabit has to endure. Several movies have used color corrections to create this feeling, but this one is one of the few that actually succeeded. I believe the long pauses and little dialogue also contribute to this vibe.
Kodi and…
Full of hope and optimism. This is hands down one of the most uplifting films out there.
Black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched.
Don't have anything else to say about this movie so I looked up depressing on thesaurus. Bleak is my favorite tho.
Whisper-quiet and bathed in the sooty cinematography of its wrecked landscapes, "The Road" is a meditation on both survival and giving up the fight. With that tension as its thematic catalyst, the film moves slowly and poetically through the harrowing and heartbreaking journey of its protagonists. An ideally-cast Viggo Mortensen anchors the film, but it is Kodi Smit-McPhee who provides the film its conscience. "The Road" is an unexpectedly excellent and moving film.
WOO-WEE, I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THE INEVITABLE DEATH OF MY FATHER WHO I HAVE AN INEXPLICABLY CLOSE BOND WITH I FUCKING LOVE IT I AM DEFINITELY SCREAMING
Well... they did a great job capturing the bleak landscape described in the book! But to be honest, this film just didn't do it for me, which is a shame because Viggo Mortensen's performance as the father couldn't have been more perfect. It's an impossible task to capture heart-wrenching magic of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
This was actually quite a beautiful movie. Very dark and depressing. A bit of a slow burn. Not a fun time at all. It is the apocalypse though. Viggo was amazing. Oscar worthy.
