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The Road & The Book of Eli
pilsner:
I was being snide. In the wide world of gimmicks this one is pretty innocuous. I actually remember him rattling off some convoluted and deeply felt justification in interview but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
Inlander:
Here's a really good (as in it's both full of praise, and it's also very well written) review from this week of the Road, the movie:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/towards-love/story-e6frgcjx-1225805911410
These two paragraphs in particular will be a relief to those of you who were concerned about the trailer:
--- Quote ---The construction of a deceptive preview trailer that seeks to hide this darkness by promoting it as an end-of-the-world spectacular such as The Day After Tomorrow, using panicky newsreel footage and explosive snippets that are not in the film -- with shots of Theron looking beautiful and scared -- did not assuage concerns. A dog's breakfast seemed the inevitable outcome of these competing ambitions and pressures.
Instead the film is neither a fetishistic art-house indulgence of McCarthy's most miserable extremes or an entertainment-on-steroids compromise that bastardises the book. No, against all the odds it strikes towards the deepest core of the book's appeal and emerges as a grand cinematic poem about love, about what we give and what we teach and how this is carried on between generations. Any father, mother, or child knows this territory. And, like the book, the film's ultimate reverberations are restorative precisely because it pushes us towards love and sacrifice. The outcome in the film, then, is the same as that of the novel: hope, not despair.
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Ikrik:
I really like McCarthy's writing style, especially the absence of punctuation. I find myself a lot more involved in the reading and I absorb a lot more of what's going on because my mind is correcting the sentences as I'm reading it. I think it works very well with the way he tells his story.
pilsner:
In that case check out Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Sentences go on for weeks.
Caleb:
--- Quote from: Blue Kitty on 03 Dec 2009, 19:26 ---*The Road Comic*
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Aww...that's nice.
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