The Road (2009 film)



The Road is a 2009 film adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy. It was directed by John Hillcoat, the director of The Proposition, and scored by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (no, not that Warren Ellis), who had previously collaborated on the score for The Proposition.


 * Arc Words: "Why are you following us?" or some variant thereof by various characters.
 * Flash Back: How Charlize Theron is able to be in this movie.
 * It's All About Me: The mother.
 * Jerkass: Arguably, the mother.
 * Never Trust a Trailer: See also Flash Back, above.
 * Nick Cave: Composed the soundtrack.
 * Only Sane Man: Some see the mother as this, since she preferred to die rather than struggle in this ruined world.
 * Ragnarok Proofing: The only intact bunker the pair find also happens to have the only functioning lights they come across... for a few seconds.
 * Since its about 10 years (more or less) After the End, a lot of stuff has long since broken down. Though there's still plenty of ammo lying around...
 * Bullets last for a remarkably long time.
 * The house in the flashbacks, if you notice closely, gradually decays as time passes, from more-or-less pristine to a dilapidated shell of its former self. It also helps that some form of EMP shut down just about everything electronic from day one.
 * Real Is Brown: Combined with relentless Scenery Gorn like woah. Much of the movie was filmed in an abandoned strip-mine, which is about as close as you can get to a Real Life post-apocalyptic wasteland.
 * Screams Like a Little Girl: The boy
 * Shout-Out: The Lonely Planet New Zealand guidebook. Australia and New Zealand are set up as possible safe havens in numerous post-apocalyptic works, including On The Beach and The Chrysalids. In addition, The Film of the Book The Lord of the Rings was filmed there.
 * Thousand-Yard Stare: Ye Gods.
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: On top of
 * And also,