Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Road — Taken

Filed under: Movies — by Will Kirkland @ 4:33 pm
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses were projecting it. After a brief, sweet opening scene of a loving couple, The Road sweeps on with some of the most thrilling scenes of the aftermath of destruction ever filmed: roaring forest fires, ash laden skies, mountain sides of dead trees, not a bird, beast or insect — until the closing minutes– alive. If, as Paul Goodman has claimed, anti-war films are pornography for pacifists, The Road is surely that for environmentalists — a place to go to enjoy all that they fear.

George Monbiot, the well known environmental dystopian, believes the novel is “the most important environmental book ever written.” (Yep.)

TheRoad

Read full review at AllInOneBoat.org

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