Essay sample library > The Road (2009)

The Road (2009)

2023-01-30 03:28:03

The novel gave me a very deep impression and I was worried about how to adapt it. The tone of the novel is almost unforgiving dark, 100% faithful adaptation makes it hard to worry

I will report that this movie is really very good. It resolves unbearable oppression problems by focusing on the emotional impact of the unspecified end of the world, not daily competition for food and shelters. Therefore, although it is still very irritated from time to time, it is full of hope rather than despair. I always feel that the end of the novel is somewhat different from other novels, but it seems quite suitable in the movies.

I think that this movie is about the collapse of civilization rather than civilization. In the movie that reflected the remaining human race, I am about to survive and I am very concerned about interpersonal relationships. This may be why the exact cause of the disaster is blank, because the movie is not the real end of the world, but the end of society. In a country without elderly people, this is an interesting colleague's work, and elderly people only see horror in the modern world. On the road, for his son, man is convinced that human beings are convinced that even in the face of frightening conditions themselves

According to American writer Cormac McCarthy, "Road" is a 2009 American Post-Apocalyptic Drama movie directed by John Hillcoat, written by Joe Penhall. In 2006, he received the Pulitzer Prize for a novel of the same name. The main photographers in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Washington, and Oregon are the main character of Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, his sons are in the wilderness after the apocalypse. The Road was published at North American Cinema on November 25, 2009 and screened at British Cinema on January 4, 2010. The film received positive comments from critics. The performance of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee got praise. It also acquired multiple nominations including BAFTA's best film photography nominations

The 2009 film based on the 2006 novel "Road" was directed by John Hillcoat and Joe Penhall took the spotlight. The main character is Vigo Mortensen as his father, Cody Smitt McPhee as a boy, Charlize Theron as his wife, and Robert Duval as an old man. The movie opened on November 25, 2009 mainly for positive comments.

In 2009, I was on an old minivan on the 395 road in California. This road is like a forgotten backbone of the country and is hidden in the desolated valley between the two jagged towering branches of the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was 19 years old and I explored the country I was born, but I missed that turn. At that time, I used paper to find my way. On the night I zoomed in, in the darkness I took to the Sequoia National Forest and eventually connected to the Interstate Highway No. 5 to receive a clear blow to San Francisco. I did not look back, but I decided to proceed for 150 miles north of the mountain. When I grasped the steering wheel, I still remember exciting possibilities. This is the beauty of American road travel: freedom. It should be a metaphor of the whole country