![]() It disturbed me quite a bit, almost as much as the Kormac McCarthy novel it’s based off of, but Viggo Mortensen did put on an incredible performance throughout.įor anyone touched easily by films with children in them (or who has young children themselves), you may want to steer clear of the heartbreak and for any children/young teens, I don’t think there’s any purpose to watching at all. ![]() It left me with a heavy heart and gross, depressed feeling, since the whole movie from the beginning- where the wife/mother walks into the burning woods to kill herself, to the end where nothings really even fixed or found, it just kind of ends. Throughout the whole movie I was on edge and extremely depressed, and even after it ended it seemed to stick with me quite a while. Aside from all of it being extremely grey and dismal and depressing, there are a few heart pounding scenes that show anything from a group of men trying to lure a young boy to them, to father & son discovering a house basement full of starved skinny almost-people who attack them and who obviously have been cannibalized and kept captive to use for food (with limbs missing and cut off). Without explaining why the world had ended at all, father and son are constantly in search of food and shelter for survival. Throughout, you’re faced with humans who act less like humans than animals, who hunt other humans and band together in groups to thieve and murder in their own attempts to survive. in a place where society has completely dismantled and humans have turned to their most animalistic nature, a father travels across the country in hopes of finding a place to survive with his very young son. ![]() The scene where human livestock are discovered is extremely disturbing and frightening (lasts about 5-7 seconds). The constant threat of violence is very ominous, constant references to suicide and murder. The whole movie from start to finish is heartbreaking, and the viewer is constantly on edge as a father attempts to survive in a world after the world has ended. Nothing is shown, camera moves away, muffled shrieks and shots are heard. Road, Movie (Hindi:, ) is a 2009 Indian road movie directed by Dev Benegal, and starring Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Satish Kaushik.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |