despair to the core

Halie 2022-04-19 09:01:35

An apocalyptic scene and the backs of a father and son trekking together make up the film's downright gloomy tone.
In the end, I didn't understand where the father and son were going and what they were looking for, maybe just to survive, to live one more day, as the homeless old man said, it is better to live foolishly than to die. Perhaps this road has no end, and there is no hope, only this process, stalemate due to love.
The movie seems to be telling the story of parents and children. No matter how long the road is, parents can only walk with you for so long, and you have to complete the rest by yourself.
"Nightmare is because you are fighting, you are still alive; if you dream well, it is not a good thing." When the rest of the journey begins, I can vaguely remember the words of the person who accompanied you for a while, the road may not be very good alone.

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The Road quotes

  • The Man: The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calender for years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived, and all the crops are long gone. Someday all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts, and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food.

    The Man: Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food, always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice, difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant, and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

  • Wife: My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.