John Hillcoat (The Proposition) adapts Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man and his son travelling in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with predictably bleak results. It's a little like a hypothetical 28 Years Later: there are no more cans of food stacked in abandoned supermarkets, no more fuel, no more trees; if there were zombies, even they would have starved.
There's not really much to the film: intrusive score, intrusive voiceovers, cloudy motivations and a conclusion that feels inexplicably like a cop-out. But it's a tense, surprisingly engaging and surprisingly personal look at the apocalypse.
Our world is so large, so connected, that what hits so hard in The Road is that it's so small. If you were the last man on Earth, how would you know? Would it matter?
John Hillcoat (The Proposition) adapts Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man and his son travelling in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with predictably bleak results. It's a little like a hypothetical 28 Years Later: there are no more cans of food stacked in abandoned supermarkets, no more fuel, no more trees; if there were zombies, even they would have starved.
There's not really much to the film: intrusive score, intrusive voiceovers, cloudy motivations and a conclusion that feels inexplicably like a cop-out. But it's a tense, surprisingly engaging and surprisingly personal look at the apocalypse.
Our world is so large, so connected, that what hits so hard in The Road is that it's so small. If you were the last man on Earth, how would you know? Would it matter?