By ISAAC SERRATO
Staff Writer
The Road has to be one of the most depressing movies ever made. Look it up on google, it is actually ranked high up on the depressing scale. The movie is based on Cormac McCarthy’s book “The Road”. The story is quite simple, a dad with his son goes down a road south trying to find a better place to live in destroyed America. But what happens, along with the choices they have to make is utterly gut-wrenching, and hard to watch. The movie is also very brutal (for its time). Colors are non-existent, and the atmosphere is awful, suffocating you at every moment it can get. With a music score that slaps you in the face.
I really don’t want to spoil the movie but the film is a great watch, but prepare for the violence of brutal cannibalism, terrible moral choices, awful things the father teaches or says to his son. With the bleak, depressing lighting, hellish setting with the most terrible sins of humanity being commonplace.
This quote sums up the movie, the father saying to his 10-year-old son “We won’t die anytime soon. From starving it’s going to take a long time to die.”
