The Road (sounds good!)

Have you seen it?

Here are some excerpts from Brett McCracken's review of The Road in CT...

On the first page of The Road—Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of father/son survival in a post-apocalyptic world—we are introduced to a world of darkness and gray, stinking robes and plastic tarpaulins, bleak lifelessness "like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world." But amidst this hell we see a father reaching out to touch his child.

John Hillcoat's film version also opens with this scene, perfectly capturing from the outset the spirit of "love among the ruins" that makes McCarthy's book a true 21st century classic....This film is of the finest order and an impressively restrained, quietly humane work of art for our fragile times—a triumph of beauty, tragedy, prophecy and redemption....

The father-son duo are survivors in a not-too-distant future in which nature is dying, fires rage, ash permeates the air, and those who aren't cannibals are relegated to scavenging for dead bugs. The Road follows this pair on their perilous journey to the coast, a place of perpetual hope...

...despite the apparent godlessness of the dying world, God is still there—even if only in remnants and shards....

It's absolutely fitting that The Road opens out on Thanksgiving weekend. It's an experience that will thrill you, unsettle you, but above all remind you that even in the darkest of times there is much to be thankful for....