Table of Contents If stories about the end of the world weren’t fun to explore, then there probably wouldn’t be so many of them. Think of The Walking Dead, for example.
No one would really want to live in a zombie-filled postapocalyptic hellscape. But it can be very enjoyable to watch the human characters fight back and dispatch the walkers. The Road doesn’t have anything like that in its vision of the apocalypse. There are no zombies to kill, nor thrilling adventures. Instead, it’s one of the bleakest films to tackle the postapocalypse because it offers little hope for the audience or the main characters who have to live in this world.
Related Viggo Mortensen gives an intense performance As the two primary characters throughout the film, The Road belongs to Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the unnamed father and his son. Both actors are excellent in their roles, but Mortensen deserves additional praise for the level of intensity that he brings to the role. The father is so wrapped up in his desire to protect his boy that he doesn’t always remember how to love him as a son.
Charlize Theron has a brief but memorable role Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Charlize Theron doesn’t have a big role in The Road compared to Mortensen or Smit-McPhee. But she commands attention during her flashback sequences. Theron plays the boy’s mother and the wife of Mortensen’s character. Unlike her husband, the mother isn’t consumed with keeping the family together or even keeping herself alive. She simply wants out of this world on her own terms.
Because trust is in such short supply, the father doesn’t have much mercy for others… especially if they’ve dared to threaten his son or steal what little they have left. This is one of the reasons why the film is so hard to watch. The son occasionally makes his father show some humanity to others. But the breakdown of relationships between people as a species makes this a world that’s difficult to watch.
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