FirstShowing: "The Road is a Harrowing Triumph"

"The Road is as good an adaptation of the novel as I could have imagined. It's true, thematically, tonally, and story-wise, to its source material, but it bravely winds through areas the novel didn't have to, but the film must. I haven't cried more often or more genuinely in a theatre… possibly ever. Though, again, this is not a film for the faint of heart or soul. It's at times brutal. It's shocking and filled with an encompassing desperation and unrelenting tension that can be uncomfortable. But any film that can make its audience feel so much, so deeply, any film that is able to explore such intangibles, such love, such humanity so honestly is something to behold with respect and admiration.

And I do admire The Road. For retaining such a truthfulness, more than anything. But also for being able to leave the audience with a sense of hope at the end, however small it is. As the credits rolled and I watched the text scroll by through squinted eyes, heavy with tears, the sounds of wind through trees, of a bird (for the credits are devoid of music in their first half), my first thoughts raced to the love I have for my father, for my family. I can't think of a better film to see with one's family this Thanksgiving. The Road is a thing of beauty. It's profound. It's a revelation. It's a triumph."

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