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The17sss
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
nd it stayed with me for days - the mark of a very good story, in my opinion. |
This. Rarely does a movie stay with me, and this one stayed with me for at least a week after watching it. I know that more often than not, the book is a better experience than the movie, but you should see the movie too IMO... at least for the artistic impressiveness of Viggo.
I read the review of the book by Dennis Lehane (who wrote Mystic River) and it certainly sounds almost identical to what I saw in the movie:
quote: | Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. 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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Jan-05-2010 17:37
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Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
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quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
haven't seen that one dude. But uh... made in 1975 and starrting Don Johnson? I don't know if I can do it! |
I know, I know, I was leery at first as well. It really is the best thing he's ever done though haha. It's based on a short story by Harlan Ellison so there actually is a great basis for the movie as a sci-fi story, but it's extremely tongue-in-cheek, too. I don't want to give too much away as there are a few twists, but it's basically about a man who wanders the wasteland with his dog, whom he can communicate with psychically. It's an odd film, but rarely an eccentric one, and the resolution of the movie is one of my favourite things in the world.
It's kind of dated, but entirely worth giving it a chance.
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Jan-05-2010 18:34
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The17sss
C.R.E.A.M.
Registered: May 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I know, I know, I was leery at first as well. It really is the best thing he's ever done though haha. It's based on a short story by Harlan Ellison so there actually is a great basis for the movie as a sci-fi story, but it's extremely tongue-in-cheek, too. I don't want to give too much away as there are a few twists, but it's basically about a man who wanders the wasteland with his dog, whom he can communicate with psychically. It's an odd film, but rarely an eccentric one, and the resolution of the movie is one of my favourite things in the world.
It's kind of dated, but entirely worth giving it a chance. |
hmmm. you sell it pretty well. i guess I'll give it a shot.
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Jan-05-2010 23:43
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