A History of Violence
2005
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The Road 's commitment to Cormac McCarthy's dark vision may prove too unyielding for some, but the film benefits from hauntingly powerful performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi McPhee....
Nov 24, 2009 · The Road is not fertile soil, providing a world with life draining from it. McCarthy's greatest novels are Suttree and Blood Meridian. The second, set in the Old West, is about a fearsome, bald, skeletal man named Judge Holden, who is implacable in his desire to inflict suffering and death.
Sep 26, 2006 · Cormac McCarthy. 3.99. 914,432 ratings60,405 reviews. A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind.
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- Cormac Mccarthy
Oct 21, 2021 · “The Road” is the most readable of his works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization — “the frailty of everything revealed at last.
Electricity is gone, food is scarce, and everything has turned cold and gray from falling ash. A man ( Viggo Mortensen) and his 10-year-old son ( Kodi Smit-McPhee) make their way along the dangerous road toward the coast in the hopes of finding something -- anything -- there.
- John Hillcoat
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Dimension
The Road, directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men), is a dark, poignant story of a father and son journeying through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, withstanding harsh weather, malnutrition, and under the constant threat of marauders, thieves and cannibals.
