Original Article: The Long and Winding Road
December 17th, 2009
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Author: Cormac McCarthy’s grim Pulitzer winner gets a big-screen adaptation.
by Addison Engelking
The Road opens with a dreamy, brightly lit montage of domestic tranquility (wife, garden, horse) that is rudely interrupted as a man — excuse me, make that “The Man” (Viggo Mortensen) — awakens from his dreams to confront the gray, lifeless world stretched before him. Months, perhaps years, of subsistence-level misery have settled firmly on the backs of the Man and his son, the Boy (Kody Smit-McPhee). We learn quickly that the Man’s wife (Charlize Theron) has been gone for…
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