Stream it now The Road 2009

 

was a great movie, struggle to survive in harsh reality while holding on to the last threads of humanism...

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I like the dark tone of the movie, the setting, the characters and the acting. But I dislike the thin plot. Ok in the overall.

Hauntingly beautiful but extremely difficult for general audiences. The darkness of the novel is well portrayed in this well craft film, more of a story about love, parenting, and struggle rather than a adventure film.

A living nightmare, a beautiful father and son story, a struggle for survival in a relentless world where humanity is on the brink of devastation. A film full of hope and despair, with outstanding performances. A film which will definitely stay with you after the credits roll.

For all of the unbearable gloom and despair woven into The Road, there is, somehow, a thin strand of hope guiding us through this heart-wrenching masterpiece. For all of the dreariness, dejection, and complete devastation, there is the unfathomable joy of a child savoring his first impetuous sip of Coca-Cola. For all of the unthinkable evil born out of unparalleled desperation, there is a loving father expending every ounce of energy holding onto hope and holding onto his only son, the only thing he has left.

The greatness of The Road is camouflaged in the completely depressed state it leaves you in, but it is there nonetheless. Mortenson gives the performance of a lifetime and Kodi Smit-McPhee shows more emotion, talent, and potential than most actors in Hollywood more than twice his age. I have not felt as emotionally "shaken" by a film since "Requiem for a Dream". A truly beautiful accomplishment.

A gruelling but elegantly beautiful account of post-apocalyptic survival, The Road examines the human capacity for both love and brutal selfishness. Haunting, monochrome visuals and assured acting contribute to an emotionally hard-going, yet oddly hopeful story.

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Finally, I've seen The Road. Somehow, I thought I'd be liking this a little bit more than I actually did. I'm usually all about dark and depressive themes but this one did not blow me away. The reason of this is that there is simply not much underneath the surface that will make you think, just the simple questions that pop out almost every time you see a post-apocalyptic movie. Now I am doing this review regardless of the book because comparison would simply be unfair. The McCarthy's book is very hard to portray on screen as the writing style of his was too sophisticated to entirely be transplanted into a GREAT movie. Either way, I think the director did the best he could, actually the best anyone could.
The whole story is very very slow with not much going on except The Boy and The Father wandering through burned, desolated and evergrey industrial wastelands of America. An endless road going south. Their goal is to reach the coast as it represents some kind of hope. Their journey is sometimes intercepted by other travelers or gangs trying to survive that make the trip more dangerous. The depicting of the journey is intersected by flashbacks of The Father's life with his now dead wife. Now the basic idea of this story I found in presenting the rough survival in hard conditions the world is.. And sometimes I think that was not enough to keep the regular viewer satisfied. I let myself sleep on it, to chew up what I have just seen and the impression got just a little better.
My rating of 70% goes to great acting of absolutely everyone involved, and to eye-appealing views of catastrophe devastated lands. The acting is probably why the situations were so believable and I thought that's how everyone would have done and acted. Emotional scenes were so good just because of the two leads and there was A LOT of sad and emotional stuff.
Very grey and sad, without any purpose or goal it tries to make, I wouldn't recommend this to regular viewers but if you're into this kind of tough stuff, it is something different that you can enjoy but only if you take it the right way. The book is better but somehow I almost always think that books offer something more, that movies can never reach.

Very good movie. Very dark. Makes you think is this what it would be like if it happened.