[Zombie]

The Road

I was afraid to watch this movie, because Cormac McCarthy is one of my all-time favorite authors & I wasn't sure how they were going to pull this off.

I guess they did okay, considering that The Road is a rather special book, but they had to cut out a scene from the book that I think is rather pivotal and sums up what McCarthy was trying to say. Unfortunate, but understandable considering the nature of the scene. Also, they expanded the role of the Woman into a whole character almost, with the bones of a backstory, which I thought was unnecessary, but I guess Charlize Theron was bored that week or something.

I was pleased to see, however, that some of McCarthy's most beautiful lines were preserved in the film, particularly when the Man says of the Boy, "If he is not the word of god, then god never spoke."