The Road

The Road greatfully plods through the basics of McCarthy's nightmarish post-apocalyptic landscape: a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) try to survive as they walk along through the barren, sunless remnants of some natural disaster. Scrounging for food and snuggling together to stay warm, they spend most of their time trying to avoid the cannibalistic murderers who roam the highways and forrests. The Proposition director John Hillcoat brings his dirty physicality to the material, so in the matters of the damp clothes and starved bodies and dangerous forests, the movie alarms true. But the longer it moves on, the more it appears a thoroughly conventional conclusion is at the end of this tragedy tale. The Road shows human behavior in its best and worst. From the first sip of whiskey in over what seems 10 years to the realization of being in a food pantry that consists of humans-this is a grim tale. A must see and top favorite.