Titolo: The Road
Anno: 2009
Regista: John Hillcoat
Soggetto: The Road, Cormac MaCarthy
Con:
Viggo Mortensen
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Michael K. Williams
Robert Duvall
Guy Pearce
Charlize Theron
A sad film, impact and poignant. In the scenes lies a certain sweetness, of uncertainty over the future of the race and unconditional love that every human being, like it or not, to test their "guest" (maybe we are not pests to the earth?) . The film immerses his characters in a world ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe. Most human beings have died for years, food is scarce and nature is inclement, the chances of survival are ephemeral and any sign of civilization is removed. In a land where no one can aspire to nothing more than to die without being prey to other men (mostly devoted to cannibalism), morally deviant, and that man has nothing if not the outward appearance.
Father and son (Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee ) travel to the south in hopes of meeting a more forgiving nature, hoping to find food. Struggling every day to avoid starvation and to not meet a painful end. What makes this film interesting is the climate of the narrative, events, actions are struggling to stand out on each other until the final scene, one that might seem, from my description, a narration of events is rather flat, a constant and debilitating emotional journey for the viewer. The tension in the film is always held at the maximum acceptable level, the paranoia of the father in contrast to the good faith and innocence of the child infects the viewer. I confess that this film, gorgeous, threw me into turmoil. It 's a beautiful film. In Italy, its distribution has been delayed and even blocked because the film was deemed "too depressing".
A negative note is the ugliness of the influential voice of the child in the Italian dubbing.
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