Post-apocalyptic America. How would you picture it? How about frozen, dark, void of vegetation and food and sprinkled with just a handful of desperate people driven to cannibalism?In an attempt to save his son, now 11 years old but born after the end of the world, Man (we never get to know his name) is faced with not only a physical struggle but a moral one too. How does one teach a son to respect life when there is none to speak of?
This film delves much deeper than a need to survive; it is a foreboding representation of a possible future for the human race. Issues of rotting morality and a decaying planet are all alluded to in a bleak landscape that is bound to make you choke. And of course this is all thanks to Cormac McCarthy’s book of the same name. A depressing but brilliant portrayal that steers clear of clichés created by lesser end-of-the-world blockbusters.
Rating: 4 outta 5
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