I had the privilege of seeing John Hillcoat's "The Road" this past Sunday evening at the Fargo Theatre with my lovely girlfriend, Allegra. :) Hillcoat's version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptical tale of survival was a truly breathtaking film. The story follows a man and his son as they trek across a dead America, pushing a shopping cart filled with their belongings across a land which has been long since ravaged by nuclear fall outs or other disasters. As the pair make there way across the treacherous landscape, they are constantly plagued by troublesome travelers, bad weather, poor clothes...and other things. I won't give away the ending, but this film really is beautiful in a terrible, gray, dead kind of way. Viggo Mortensen gives the performance of his career, although I feel they could have done slightly better with the casting of the boy. This is my favorite book, and they did a pretty good job adapting it for the screen, despite a few minor setbacks. Stars Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-Mcphee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce. Currently showing at the Fargo Theatre in downtown Fargo. Classic. Chow.
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