The little boy setting is a failure

Gennaro 2022-04-22 07:01:05

Kindness is right, I also understand the truth, kindness and beauty that the director wants to express. But the boy who has lived for more than ten years in the last days does not even have the ability to take care of himself and survival skills. He weeps all day long and drags his father back from beginning to end. This setting is too brainless.

In the whole film, the little boy did not touch me, and the man's doting on this child is incomprehensible. It's so apocalyptic, isn't spoiling indirectly hurting people?

There is no problem with the actors themselves, and the story is alright. Maybe the director's enthusiasm is not enough. There is a reason for not being favored by the Oscars, and a score of 7.6 is really high.

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The Road quotes

  • Wife: [she throws two pistol cartridges on the table] That's all we have left. I should have done it a long time ago. I should've done it when we had more bullets. I don't know why I listened to you. They're gonna catch up with us and they're going to kill us. They're gonna rape me, and then they're gonna rape your son and they're gonna kill us and eat us.

    The Man: Whatever it takes...

    Wife: Stop it.

    The Man: I told you...

    Wife: Stop it!

    The Man: I will do anything. Anything.

    Wife: Like what? Hmmm? I don't even know why I ask you. I should just go ahead and empty every goddamn bullet into my brain and leave you with nothing. That's what I should do.

    The Man: Please don't talk like that.

    [both turn and look at the boy who's playing in the next room]

    Wife: You're right. There's nothing left to talk about. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.

    The Man: We have to. We will survive this. We are not gonna quit. We're not gonna quit.

    Wife: I don't want to just survive. Don't you get it? I don't wanna. Why won't you let me take him with me?

    [Man reaches for the pistol, but she grabs it]

    Wife: Don't touch it. I would take him with me if it weren't for you. You know that.

    The Man: Listen to yourself. You sound... crazy.

    Wife: [Wife pushes the pistol back across table to him] Other families are doing it.

  • The Man: Listen, we have to talk. That man back there... There's not many good guys left, that's all. We have to watch out for the bad guys. We have to just... keep carrying the fire.

    The Boy: What fire?

    The Man: The fire inside you.

    The Boy: Are we still the good guys?

    The Man: Yes, we're still the good guys. Of course we are.

    The Boy: And we always will be? No matter what happens?

    The Man: Always will.