The film tells a story: after a global disaster, except for a few survivors, "no animals survived, all crops have long since withered, and soon all the trees in the world will fall", People either waited to die in starvation or delayed death by cannibalism. Even more unfortunate, a couple gave birth to their baby at this time, the mother could not bear the reality and chose to leave the world, and the father searched for the little food left (if moldy grains and insect corpses also counted as food) words), and in order to avoid the cannibal predators, he took his son and started a road of escape. The son grows up day by day, the food he can find is scarce day by day, and the father is gradually weakened by the torture of spirit and environment day by day. Finally one day, my father fell by the side of the road. . . . . .
In my opinion, the charm of the movie is largely because it abstracts the complicated real world, which makes us feel the drama of this world or so absurd. From the beginning to the end of "The Road", except for the memory part, the entire film has almost no color, and does not use much soundtrack, only the whistling of the cold wind, accompanied by the roar of the fallen trees. "it is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies". It's a world without hope, it's a road without a destination. I used to think that as long as there is hope and faith, we can face all the woes of the world. In fact, this is indeed my spiritual pillar. But if there is no hope and no faith, can people persist? Can I still hold on? Is cannibalism still a sin when the only purpose and meaning of life is to live? I can't imagine and I can't imagine.
The father in the movie is vigilant and hostile to all other people in order to adapt to the needs of survival in such an environment of the jungle. He said to his son: "I will kill anyone who touches you. Because that's my job." Even if He stumbled upon a large pile of food and was unwilling to give a little to a dying man. Just because an old man stole their food, he could in turn rob the old man of all his clothes and shoes and make him stand naked in the snow, even though he knew the consequence would be to make the old man wait to die.
We can point fingers at the characters in this movie with justice, belief, values, and self-righteous life experience, or point fingers at all the things around us: the middle class who have enough food, clothing, clothes, money and leisure to express their beauty and gratitude for life It's easy to fall in love; it's easy for the grassroots to lash out against the rich and criticize the current affairs if they don't eat well, wear warm clothes, don't have money, and don't have time; but all of this means nothing to the world in "The Road"! It's all bull shit! When you are supposed to teach your child how to read, you are teaching him how to shoot yourself, just to avoid the possibility of falling into the hands of cannibals at any time and suffering; when you commit suicide, consider taking off all your clothes first , because others depend on it to live; how pale all our positions and thinking are now. To quote the dialogue from the movie: If there really was a God, he would have abandoned us by now. . . . . . In this day and age, death is nothing but a foolish luxury. . . . . .
Although the father in the movie is realistic and cruel in order to survive, in fact, he has always adhered to the most basic human morality in his heart, full of love for his wife and son. The father's lines in the film are very few, but the dialogue between father and son vividly portrays an admirable father image:
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
. . . . . . .
The Boy: We would never eat anybody, would we?
The Man: No, of course not.
The Boy: No matter how hungry we were?
The Man: Uh nuh.
The Boy: Even if we were starving?
The Man: We 're starving now.
The Boy: Because we're the good guys.
The Man: Yes.
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When the father was seriously injured and was about to die, he was still teaching his son how to survive in his last moments, and he let his son continue on their way, "Go south, keep going south, you don't know, there will be some what". The son cried helplessly and hugged his father and said, "But I want to be with you." The father said sadly, "I also want to be with you, but I can't." He struggled to comfort his son, but he touched The son's hand had no strength, and he vaguely uttered his final voice: "Oh, boy, my boy, you take up my whole heart..." The father looked up at the dark night sky, and the tears in the corners of his eyes eased. Slowly falling from his withered face, he left this world he resented and reluctant to give up. . . . . . .
Like a sharp sword, this movie peeled off the fig leaf of hypocrisy in my fantasy, pierced my chest, tortured my naked soul, and made me unable to avoid pain and stop thinking. In addition to being moved, I can only say that this is a great father, this is a great man, his strength and courage make me crawl and dare not look up, in a world without any belief and any restraint, it is a kind of What kind of power is supporting him? So that humans can never be confused with ordinary animals?
Maybe the answer can be found in his conversation with his son:
The Man: You have to keep carrying the fire.
The Boy: What fire?
The Man: The fire inside you.
We can lose loved ones, we can lose hope, we can even Lose the world, but the burning flame in our hearts will keep us from losing our most precious humanity.
(Also, there is a scene in the movie that also moved me: my father worked so hard to make a can of Coke in an abandoned beverage vending machine, and he opened it to his son like a treasure, a son who has never drank Coke. Obviously attracted by this novel drink, he burped while drinking it, but the son immediately handed it to his father subconsciously and let him taste it. The father carefully took a sip and gave it back to his son. What a warm scene, how familiar Scene. I love you, my father, my son, on the road of life, your company has made me stronger.)
On November 8, 2012 in Xiamen
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