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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Extended Reading
  • Enrico 2022-03-22 09:01:28

    Although it is redundant, the theme of the road of doomsday with deep father-son love is still quite touching.

  • Karina 2022-03-22 09:01:28

    Doomsday, wasteland, father and son, wandering, all are factors that I like... It's just that the father in the film is too pessimistic about life in the wasteland and cannot bring hope to his children.

The Road quotes

  • [first lines]

    Wife: What's happening? Why are you taking a bath?

    The Man: I'm not.

  • The Man: [gleefully to boy] What do you want for breakfast?