The Road

The Road is a film by John Hillcoat released in 2009 and based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.

In a post-apocalyptic scenario, a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) try to keep alive the dream of a new civilization.

The Road brutally portrays a world entirely devoid of hope and stripped of all its beauty.

A scenario in which it becomes imaginable, understandable, and even acceptable to attack others for a tool or a crust of bread, and to explain to your child how to use a gun to end their own life if it becomes absolutely necessary.

The man always carries a gun loaded with two bullets for emergencies and has taught the boy to distrust anyone, as cannibalism has become a common practice due to the increasing difficulty of finding food.

After an undefined catastrophic event, the world has become a dark and dangerous place.

Their plan is to head south, where the hope of finding a more hospitable environment than the one they live in keeps their strength and courage alive as they face the long journey day after day.

A scenario that terrifies, the idea that our lives could transform from how we know them today into the desperate survival the two protagonists endure.

It always instills that sense of anxiety and anguish, sparking the same question in all of us: Could I ever live a life like theirs?

Hoping that this remains confined to the imaginations of writers and directors, we leave you to enjoy the video we’ve created, hoping we’ve managed to convey powerful and conflicting emotions.

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