In some of the movie's most agonizing scenes, we see The Man explain not only what must be done but why. "No," The Old Man replies, "it's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these." The Man and The Boy have 1 gun with 2 bullets left they are not being reserved for potential assailants. "DId you ever wish you would die?", The Man asks. "She was gone," The Man remembers, "and the coldness of it was her final gift." Others persevere for no cogent reason. The Wife, after some low-energy soul-searching, goes the ancient-Eskimo route. The voices you hear approaching are not the Red Cross. Humans are apparently the only animals to survive the unnamed global disaster, so they represent the sole remaining, rapidly dwindling source of protein. The food is gone, and clearly no more will be growing. The name of the game is Survival, tho none can say what the point of it is. And really, once you've named the names, you've pretty well covered the movie. In flashbacks to an achingly lost former life, we see The Wife (Charlize Theron). Williams), and The Veteran (Guy Pearce) and his woman (Molly Parker). Who can say? But what else is there? Along the way they encounter The Gang Member (Garret Dillahunt, still as creepy and frightening as he was in The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Last House on the Left), The Road Gang Leader (Brenna Roth), The Old Man (Robert Duvall), The Thief (Michael K. Thru it trudge The Man (Viggo Mortenson) and The Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), slowly and painfully making their way to "the coast", where maybe things will be marginally better. It's a bleak, devastated, post-apocalyptic world leached of everything: color, sounds, names, sunshine, warmth, joy, hope. The Road (1:50, R) - Science Fiction, 3rd string, original Among the first words spoken in The Road (adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel) are "It's just another earthquake.".
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