Comments on: Movie Review: The Road http://socius.or.kr/2010/01/07/movie-review-the-road/ to do & know in daejeon Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Luiz http://socius.or.kr/2010/01/07/movie-review-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6610 Luiz Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:16:00 +0000 http://socius.or.kr/?p=2739#comment-6610 I saw "The Road" with two others and was the only one who enjoyed it. I don't see it as an end-of-the-world movie like Independence Day or Deep Impact. Instead, I saw the driving theme of the film as a father's intense love for his son. The setting of the movie is actually after the end of the world, the earth's skeletal remains is merely background to the focal relationship. One note: the film departs significantly from the quieter novel by Cormac McCarthy. Not only is are there entirely new scenes of nightmarish proportion, but the movie is populated with two dozen or so people, most of whom lost their humanity long ago. In the book, run-ins with another person (let alone wandering gangs) are rarer, with just one of the many close calls featured in the film. I saw “The Road” with two others and was the only one who enjoyed it. I don’t see it as an end-of-the-world movie like Independence Day or Deep Impact. Instead, I saw the driving theme of the film as a father’s intense love for his son. The setting of the movie is actually after the end of the world, the earth’s skeletal remains is merely background to the focal relationship.

One note: the film departs significantly from the quieter novel by Cormac McCarthy. Not only is are there entirely new scenes of nightmarish proportion, but the movie is populated with two dozen or so people, most of whom lost their humanity long ago. In the book, run-ins with another person (let alone wandering gangs) are rarer, with just one of the many close calls featured in the film.

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