The document provides a review and analysis of the post-apocalyptic film The Road based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. It summarizes that the film depicts the powerful connection between a father and son as they struggle to survive in a bleak post-apocalyptic world. While dark in theme, the film effectively conveys the intense experience of its characters and their battle to remain human in a godforsaken world. The reviewer expresses how adults and parents can strongly relate to the film but also how its genre may appeal to teenagers. Overall, the film succeeds in creating a depressing yet impactful viewing experience through its visuals, performances, and atmosphere.

1. The Road
The Road is an enthralling movie experience of the book that brings out powerful
emotions to the audience by visually depicting the sacred connection between father and son.
The world has practically ended and it is up to the survivors to choose how they keep
living in this post–apocalyptic world. Many people resort to cannibalism which our main
characters did not, for they are the good guys that are "carrying the fire" everywhere they go.
Through many ordeals and nightmares of being eaten, our father and son duo learns from each
other on how to still be "human" in this godforsaken world.
Despite the dark and grim theme, this movie gave me a pleasant surprise. A lot of people
may not like the movie for its gore and violence,...show more content...
Adults, especially ones with children will be able to
sympathize with the movie very well. Most parents will be able to appreciate the messages that
are being imparted from the movie to the audience, reaching the full potential of the film as
intended. Teenagers, on the other hand, would also be interested in this movie, mainly because of
its post–apocalyptic genre that has been booming in the past few years.
In the movie, a lot of green screen was used, and I am surprisingly okay with it. The
movie was shot beautifully, camera angles succeeded in showing the bleak backgrounds and a
very good atmosphere creation overall. Hillcoat also likes to do a lot of close–ups which would
be very corny if the actors were not able to perform as intended. One thing that bothered me at
the end of the movie is the fact that another family was following the father and the son all along.
What would be the reason for that? I feel the need for that to be justified.
Overall, the movie is quite depressing, but in a good way. It is definitely not a movie that

2. you can easily watch and relax to, but altogether an intense experience. This movie is also a
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3. The Road Theme Essay
Analysis of Dreams and Memories as a Major Theme in The Road by Cormac McCarthy Throughout
history, philosophers have debated what dreams and memories are, and why humans have them.
Dreams are defined as sensory illusion influenced by human thoughts and emotions on certain topics,
in scenarios, where humans are alone in the world, they tend to rely on their memories and dreams to
keep themselves alive. Humans have an innate desire to interact and communicate, when there are no
other humans to communicate with, humans create a false reality in their minds where they
communicate and reveal their thoughts. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy illustrates two different
realities–one that represents the past, pre–apocalyptic world and the other is...show more content...
"He felt with his thumb in the painted wood of the mantle the pinholes from tacks that had held
stockings forty years ago. This is where we used to have Christmas when I was a boy ... On cold
winter nights when the electricity was out in a storm we would sit at the fire here, me and my
sisters, doing our homework. The boy watched him. Watched shapes claiming him he could not see.
We should go, Papa, he said. Yes, the man said. But he didn't,"(McCarthy, 22). The father during
this time was reminiscing of the good times, where he misses. The son seems to be trying to get his
father's attention, but it is not working. The son here is seen scared and this is because the son has
never experienced pre–apocalypse times. When the memories come back to the father it distracts
him from the reality where he is in. He doesn't even notice that his son is calling. While he was
reminiscing, he had thoughts of giving up in the world of misery that he lives in, like the many
other people who have already done so. Later after the pair made the fire, the father welcomed
memories, and created new happy memories. Cormac McCarthy writes about this experience stating,
"Everything was alight. As if the lost sun were returning at last. The snow orange and quivering. A
forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against
the overcast like the northern lights ... The color of it
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4. The Road Essay
The Road Named one of the four major novelists of his time, Cormac McCarthy has won numerous
awards such as the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2009 PEN
/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which places him in the highest rank of
American literature. His tenth and latest novel, The Road (2006), known as his most traumatic yet
intensely personal work, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature Award in 2007, as well as the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2007,) and the Quill Book Award (2007.) The Road is one of
three novels that have been made into a film and was featured in theaters in 2009. Nominated for
various cinematography awards, and winner of the Pulitzer Award, The Road is a...show more
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With only their knapsacks on their backs, an old shopping cart used to carry essential supplies for
survival, and a pistol with only limited ammunition, the two ultimately reach their goal, but neither
the weather or food availability gets better as the man furtively hoped so. The boy is later left alone
and forced to travel the road by himself since the man dies from his implacable illness. The
mourning boy stays by his dead father unknowingly of what to do now, until an old veteran
shows up. Him and his family, wife and two children, boy and girl, have been tracking the man
and boy and convinces the boy that he is one of the "good guys." The boy accepts the invite to
join the family and he is back on the road once more. The characters of the man and the boy
change through their journey throughout the novel. The man has great bravery and skill, but one
thing that stands out from him is his love and devotion for his son. "He knew only that the child
was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke" (McCarthy, p. 5). The
man refers to his son as a warrant which insinuates that the boy gives him a reason to live. The man
is ready to protect his son at all costs which makes him ruthlessly violent and cynical. The wife's
suicide and apocalypse have internally wounded the man, but he also seems burdened by his past – a
happy childhood; another life before the catastrophe. The man is resourceful, well–educated, and
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5. The Road Essay
In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road "the man" and "the boy" refer to themselves as "the good
guys" compared to "the bad guys". While reading this book I was lead to believe that "the boy" is
truly the only "good guy" left, because "the man" and every other character that I encountered in this
book share some of the same qualities as "the bad guys". The boy constantly begs his father to be
sympathetic and charitable to the drifters that they encounter on the road, but the father usually
refuses or either puts up an argument before finally giving into the boy, and handing over one or two
cans of food to the stranger. Although "the man" is in survival mode, he expresses no compassion for
humanity and therefore represents "the...show more content...
Another passage in the book that also led to my conclusion about "the man" was when he and
"the boy" had just hit the jackpot in the underground hideout; they had stocked up on food in their
buggy and had just about more than they could carry, as they started back on their journey they
come across an old man walking down the road. "Maybe we could give him something to eat."
"He looked off down the road." Damn, he whispered." "He looked down at the old man." Perhaps
he'd turn into a god and they to trees." "All right, he said." "He untied the tarp and folded it back
and rummaged through the canned goods and came up with a tin of fruit cocktail and took the
can opener from his pocket and opened the tin and folded back the lid and walked over and
squatted and handed it to the boy." "What about a spoon?" "He's not getting a spoon."(McCarthy
163). I believe the only reason "the man" gave in so easily in this situation was because they had
been very fortunate in their findings, I sense that "the man" feared that if he was not at least a tad
bit generous, that bad karma might just shadow him. After the stranger on the road had finished
eating the can of fruit "...he sat holding the empty tin and looking down into it as if more might
appear." "What do you want to give him?" "What do you think he should have?" (McCarthy 164). "I
don't think he should have anything."(McCarthy 165). Here "the man's" generosity is
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