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I am going to watch 120 Days of Sodom.
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Originally posted by couch-potato I am going to watch 120 Days of Sodom. |
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Originally posted by chimera66 added the road to my queue because of someone's suggestion, just finished it and can't really say i saw the point. |
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Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. |
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Originally posted by The17sss You were probably so beaten down by the difficult and depressing to put the optimism in perspective. This is the best explanation I've read, given by author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) that should help clarify the point of The Road: a portion of his commentary: |
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Originally posted by couch-potato I am going to watch 120 Days of Sodom. |
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Originally posted by EgosXII that's the point of the novel though, which was fantastic. The film's shit. Cormac Mccarthy is a genius i tells ya! The film version was shit, and ruined the brilliant simplicity of the book imo. |
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Originally posted by Meat187 You will regret this. |
Dunno if this film was mentioned, but I loved it.
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Originally posted by couch-potato In terms of depravity, I can say that the film one up'd my imagination quite a few times. |
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Originally posted by Meat187 I once tried watching it and turned it off again after some time. Things were just getting too gross and disgusting for me to enjoy that movie. |
I just googled it. It looks awful.
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Originally posted by The17sss the chasm between the book and the movie was that wide? I haven't read the book so obviously I can't comment, but I can see in the movie the description Dennis Lehane described. |
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Originally posted by EgosXII the outstanding thing about the book was absolutely no back-story, no attempt to explain, OR solve what got them to the apocalyptic place they were in... |
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Originally posted by Meat187 I once tried watching it and turned it off again after some time. Things were just getting too gross and disgusting for me to enjoy that movie. |
waking life, waking life, oldboy, oldboy, what the bleep do we know, what the bleep do we know, fearless freaks, fearless freaks
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Originally posted by The17sss You were probably so beaten down by the difficult and depressing to put the optimism in perspective. This is the best explanation I've read, given by author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) that should help clarify the point of The Road: a portion of his commentary: |
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Exactly like the story from which Salo is derived from, De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom of course, I find the director of the film to be more interesting than the film, itself, just as I find the man, De Sade, to be more interesting than his actual stories. They were both outrageous personalities, and each of them were interned in their own ways - their horrific byproducts being ways of practically vandalizing the prison bathroom walls. With their own feces. |
The Road is definately on my top ten movies. I can't beleive people don't like the movie because its so dark. This is as real as it gets in my opinion.
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Originally posted by Dj Nacht The Road is definately on my top ten movies. I can't beleive people don't like the movie because its so dark. This is as real as it gets in my opinion. |
Oh man, that scene when they finally have a real bath. Holy shit.
if something like that actually happened i'd kill myself, i prefer to skip the getting raped by dirty (in every sense of the word) men and being eaten thank you very much.
as for the bath scene why do they have running water? with the world falling apart all around them how could the plumbing work? rather than enjoying that particular scene i questioned it. another thing that got me is when they found that family that hung themselves they didn't take their shoes. they eat roaches but they aren't desperate to protect their feat, their sole mode of transport?
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Originally posted by chimera66 if something like that actually happened i'd kill myself, i prefer to skip the getting raped by dirty (in every sense of the word) men and being eaten thank you very much. as for the bath scene why do they have running water? with the world falling apart all around them how could the plumbing work? rather than enjoying that particular scene i questioned it. another thing that got me is when they found that family that hung themselves they didn't take their shoes. they eat roaches but they aren't desperate to protect their feat, their sole mode of transport? |
haven't watched the road in awhile, nor read the book.
however, from what i remember, i feel the movie is a contrast of the world we live in compared to what we as a society would do if an apocalyptic occurrence would happen. i think the story questions how strong our minds work if we are left to limited resources, and have to search for a means of survival.
this is what "man" and "boy" had to go through. they saw how humanity has resorted to violence and cannibalism, and "man" did not want his son or himself to live life like that. from what i remember, i think there were times where the "man" wanted to teach the "boy" that violence was never the answer, even if someone wants to hurt him. i see the story of a man fighting against himself to not breakdown into an uncivilized manner.
i loved the movie. i need to watch the movie again to give a better statement about the movie.
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Originally posted by LeopoldStotch haven't watched the road in awhile, nor read the book. however, from what i remember, i feel the movie is a contrast of the world we live in compared to what we as a society would do if an apocalyptic occurrence would happen. i think the story questions how strong our minds work if we are left to limited resources, and have to search for a means of survival. this is what "man" and "boy" had to go through. they saw how humanity has resorted to violence and cannibalism, and "man" did not want his son or himself to live life like that. from what i remember, i think there were times where the "man" wanted to teach the "boy" that violence was never the answer, even if someone wants to hurt him. i see the story of a man fighting against himself to not breakdown into an uncivilized manner. i loved the movie. i need to watch the movie again to give a better statement about the movie. |
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Originally posted by jennypie Oh man, that scene when they finally have a real bath. Holy shit. |
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