road review

The movie the road was very dark and grey; so much so that is was difficult to see the actors on the screen. The low lighting definitely had a profound depressing factor but it also dampened the grossness, especially in the cannibals’ house, I had heard that that scene was really gross and disturbing and it was, but the grey and darkness obscured it a little making it more watchable. They cut out the baby spit scene, which I can understand but they conveyed it in other ways. When the boy and the man found that place with the skulls and the blood on the ground you could see that the skulls were really small implying infant cannibalism. In the book McCarthy conveyed the deepest recesses of human cruelty through the baby spit scene but they did that in the cannibals house scene when they had to go down deep into the basement to find them. I thought the acting captured the style of the road well, the dad's actor portrayed the profound emotions really well and the child’s emotions were more obscure and simpler like in the book. I didn’t really understand purpose of the accents of some of the cannibal gangs. The man who put the knife on the boy had a southern accent, but I don’t understand why anyone would want to go to the north with the cold winter. Also I was curious about how old was the son supposed to be in the movie like six because he looked older than that. I think the kid seemed whinier in the movie than the book. The kid was still a likeable character but when he was compared to an angel it was kind of annoying where it wasn’t annoying in the book maybe it’s the kids high voice. I thought the film was good but because we read the book it got a little boring at parts. The dads cough I thought was portrayed very well it was excruciating to watch sometimes especially when he coughed for over five seconds and fell on the ground and coughed up blood, but creating a feeling of disgust and pity was precisely the point. I think the family at the end were portrayed as good better in the movie than the book, while in the book it was implied that they were good the dads character seemed kind of mysterious in the novel but in the movie it was more clear he was good because of the acting .