Alright, I haven't posted in FOREVER. I realize.
I just got done watching a movie called "The Road," apparently based off a novel by Cormac McCarthy. This was definitely a post-apocaliptic movie. No food, dreary weather caused by probably the bombs, and barely any people left. The world had become divided into cannibals and non-cannibals. However, one never knew the good guys from the bad guys and it became a source of paranoia for the characters and their desperation to protect themselves.
A father and his boy trapped in this world were traveling to the coast so they could make their way south to find warmth and possibly more "good guys" as the boy would say. After his wife left him, the father took his son and they began this very hazardous and life-threatening journey. Everywhere they went, they had to look out for a group of cannibals who would eat any person - dead or alive. The two even found the house that the cannibals lived in and their "stash" of other malnourished humans in the cellar. Fortunately, with how filthy their bodies had become, the boy and his father could blend into what was left of the nature around them and eventually escaped the cannibalistic heathens.
After some time of running, they actually discover an underground pantry filled with food and blankets and liquid. They're able to take a bath and sit at a table to eat. However, with the father's paranoia growing and some suspicious noises, the couple is off again. They took all the food they could on a cart and began making their way to the coast again.
Unfortunately, the coast was just as gloomy and retched as the rest of the world. The father kept getting sicker and sicker and eventually claimed by death, leaving the boy on his own. As the child finally began his own journey down the coast he ran into a man and his wife, two kids, and even a dog. None had been eaten.
"The Road" was a fantastic thriller. Very real and probably would have caused intense heart attacks if it had been released during the Cold War. I was very much kept on the edge of my seat. Whispering at the TV and trying to plan my own strategies if I had been in that situation. I understood the dad's paranoia along with the child's want to help. That's what the world does to the older kids. The older you get the more worrisome but young ones are just innocent and try to make some good in the world. After the father passed, the little boy was quite scared for himself but luckily he found a new family who had been following him. More "good guys" looking for the other "good guys." And that's what this whole world kind of comes down to. We always pull for the good guys because what kind of inspiration is there when the bad guys take over?
This movie ended with a cliff-hanger. While we do know the boy is in good hands after his father's death, what we don't know is if they ever made it. If maybe the cannibals caught up to them or if all the "good guys" were able to get together and start anew. However, every good movie always leaves us wanting more.
"The road" ...... 9/10. I won't give it a perfect because this is not a movie I want to watch over and over again. Nothing as sad, heart-wrenching, and almost terrifying as the situations this portrayed is good in large amounts. To each his own. Not my entire cup of tea but a great cup nonetheless.
