Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Road

Viggo Mortenson

Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypse yarn. This type of novel was very popular when I was young because of the freshness of the idea...and also because it's so compelling. But at this point you really have to come up with something fresh to say and he didn't. Neither does this film.

Very dark...the palette is stripped of color, many scenes were shot in almost total darkness which eases the burden of the production designer. As bleak as it gets without adding any insight. So the question is...what was this project about?

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