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The Road is full of mistrust and everything that's alive is slowly dying, it tries to capture a period of time and also tell the story of a father and his son. If the film is indeed faithful to the book, then the source material is simply not cinematic or good at all.
There's nothing wrong with the picture it paints, it's how it paints. The vast majority of the movie is watching people talk about being hungry, eating food, and exploring a very limited amount of dully colored landscapes. The budget obviously fits in a hat, which really is a detractor in a should-be visual experience.
The story suffers from pure simplicity, I could tell the whole thing in one sentence. It's not a complex character study, it's a barely realized apocalypse. Even for all these negatives, The Road still scores points with me because other films similar to it are much worse.
The Road is full of mistrust and everything that's alive is slowly dying, it tries to capture a period of time and also tell the story of a father and his son. If the film is indeed faithful to the book, then the source material is simply not cinematic or good at all.
There's nothing wrong with the picture it paints, it's how it paints. The vast majority of the movie is watching people talk about being hungry, eating food, and exploring a very limited amount of dully colored landscapes. The budget obviously fits in a hat, which really is a detractor in a should-be visual experience.
The story suffers from pure simplicity, I could tell the whole thing in one sentence. It's not a complex character study, it's a barely realized apocalypse. Even for all these negatives, The Road still scores points with me because other films similar to it are much worse.