The Road

Cormac McCarthy's newest book adapted to movie is "The Road"; a post-apacolyptic journey of a father and son to the coast. i read the book sometime last year and have been very anxious to see the movie. just a great and unique way of portraying a relationship between a father and son. this was director, john hillcoat's, first big movie in my eyes and i thought he did a good job. the look of the movie was well done with just a couple of CG shots of destruction/abandonment but it was tastefully done. viggo mortensen did a great job physically and actorally (if that's even a word); his body was skinny and haggard. the little boy on the other hand could have been better, but he wasn't terrible. its hard for little kids to act in a serious role, especially if its a more main role. the movie stayed fairly close to the book, but this book was written in such a way that it couldn't have captured  the same feeling in the movie; that was one of the main reasons why i wanted to watch it. the story is very vague in every aspect about what has happened to earth or america and who are these people and where they are actually going but i like the vagueness of it all. our minds are very powerful things and leaving ideas to float through our minds is better than telling us something to just fulfill our want of knowing. kinda confusing but most scary parts in movies are due to the unknowing because our minds can think of and give us a feeling that is more scary than what hollywood can conjure up; take m. night shyamalan's "signs" for example, it was a decently scary movie right up until they showed the alien and then it just got ridiculously lame. shouldn't have shown us that alien m. night. hopefully you learned your lesson. so if you're reading the book, go see the movie and if you haven't read the book, go read it.