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In The Road, a world is created that would be much like the real world - if it wasn't dying. Some very nice touches including Vitamin Water and Coca-Cola give the audience the feeling that the end of this world might have happened now or not so far into the actual future. This immediately makes the connection between the world of the film and the present time. Offering these connections to the real world which happen a few times throughout allows John Hilcoat [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the director, to create a post-apocalypse with precision. What the audience sees is the world that they live in reduced to a waste land. It's quite effective.
The film is successful at being believable throughout. There are extreme efforts to make it seem this way including unhealthy looking actors. Mortensen's torso is a fright to see when he takes off his shirt. The conclusion happens a bit abruptly. It didn't feel like the film had run its course when the closing credits came up. But after seeing and reading No Counrty for Old Men and seeing The Road, it might be time to pick up Blood Meridian which is currently being adapted for the screen with director Todd Field at the helm.
In Conclusion
The Plot and The Performances
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The Road Review
The Road - A John Hillcoat Film
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The objective of the film is fairly simple and doesn't stray into any subplots or external circumstances which alter the goals of the protagonist. The Man, played by Mortensen, and The Boy, played by Smit-McPhee [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are trying to migrate to the ocean in an effort to find life elsewhere after some unnamed global change has caused the population to almost disappear and all of the resources of the land to die. They must search for food along the way and survive long periods of starvation and they must be wary of other survivors who have turned into hunter cannibals.
Find food, avoid people who will eat them, find the ocean. That's the journey that these two take and that the audience takes with them. The threat of being murdered and eaten is always a possibility throughout the film and it is quite chilling. The film does a great job of taking the audience along for the journey. It becomes possible to imagine one's self behaving in the same ways as Mortenson. The only relief from the threat of death around every corner are flashbacks that depict The Man and The Boy with The Wife/Mother, played with heartbreaking apathy by Charlize Theron.
There are very early flashbacks that show the world pre-apocalypse and the audience gets to see The Man and The Wife/Mother in very happy, tranquil times. There are other flashbacks which happen when the family is struggling to stay alive in their house with the fear of it being raided. The audience wonders throughout with each new flashback, where is she? Is she dead? Did she leave? The answer should be left to find out.
Along the way the father and son have run-ins with the bad guys but they also meet some non-cannibals who have very rich performances. Robert Duvall, with his own touch of slightly-off-kilter, plays a blind old man that the pair take in and feed for the night. The Man is very wary of all others that they meet and has a perfectly acted blend of aggression and tenderness which is characteristic of his work. The Boy is innocent and wants to help others. When Smit-McPhee's Boy becomes frightened it's heartbreaking. The startling reality of a child having to see a room full of emaciated prisoners and to duck and remain silent as a horde of cannibals passes by is brought to the audience's attention as he cries little whimpers [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], little prayers for everything to be okay.