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Follow us today to a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film titled: The road.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
The movie begins with a man dreaming of his idyllic life before the apocalypse.
There is a fire outside and he fills a bathtub with water.
His pregnant wife asks what he is doing.
In the present day, he wakes outside with his son.
He looks out across a desolate landscape as there is an earthquake.
His son calls out for him.
The next morning, they continue their journey.
We learn that the clocks stopped at 1:17 and that there were a series of bright lights.
The man thinks that it is now October.
No animals survived and the crops are long gone.
The roads are populated by refugees and gangs looking for fuel and food.
There has been cannibalism which is the great fear.
He worries about the food and the cold mostly.
At night, the man reads to his son.
They are awakened by more fires on the ridge and so they travel onwards.
As day breaks, they pass a house and take a look inside but there is no food.
The man realizes that the occupants are all dead.
He has two bullets left in his gun for them to use if necessary.
The man remembers when his wife’s waters broke and the night that their son was born.
He then hears a noise and wakes his son.
They hide as a gang approaches.
A gang member comes close and the man points his gun at him and asks if he has ammunition
for the rifles.
He asks what they are eating.
The gang member replies whatever they can find and then casts a look at his son.
He tells him that he’ll shoot him if he looks at his son again.
The gang member offers him to come to the truck to get something to eat but the man
doesn’t believe he has anything.
The gang member calls the man’s bluff and when there is the distraction of a truck starting,
the gang member grabs his son.
The man shoots him but that alerts the other gang members to his position.
The man picks up his son and runs away with the gang in pursuit.
They manage to escape but the son is pretty stunned.
The two return to find their cart and the man leaves the gun with his son.
He sees some meat on the ground.
The man tells his son that they have to look out for bad people and carry the fire inside
them.
They are still the good guys and always will be.
The man manages to extract a beverage can from a vending machine.
The boy doesn’t know what it is but enjoys it and shares it with his father.
They later discuss their plan to continue south and reach the coast where there may
be food.
The son wishes that he was with his mum.
The man then says that he needs to stop thinking about her.
The next morning, the man wakes early and gets rid of his wife’s picture and his ring.
He remembers the night that his wife left them - asking her what he should tell their
son.
She tells him to go south as she leaves.
He believes that she died somewhere in the dark.
The man and his son look at the colors in the waterfall and they bathe in it.
Later they pass a grand house and break in looking for supplies.
They search and find a locked basement.
The man finds an ax to bust the lock open and they explore downstairs.
They find lots of people downstairs who cry for help and say that they are being taken
to the smoke house.
The man fights them off to escape but the son suddenly spots a gang returning to the
house.
They hide in a bathroom with a blood stained bath.
The gang are talking and one starts to come up the stairs.
Suddenly the people in the basement try to escape and the gang is distracted.
The man and his son are able to escape and hide outside as they can hear the prisoners
being attacked.
Later at night, the man and his son flee.
They eat insects and the boy asks if they would ever have to eat a person.
The man assures him that they wouldn’t because they are the good guys.
Some time later, they arrive at the house where he grew up.
The boy waits outside as the man looks around reminiscing.
The son sees a little boy and gives chase but the man stops him saying that there can
be no-one there.
They continue their journey.
The boy asks if they're gonna die but the man tells him that it takes a long time to
die.
Every day, he is dying but he is just trying to prepare his son for the day that he is
no more.
One night, the man cries in grief but hides it from his son.
The boy sees their reflections and says that they look skinny.
The man finds a piano and starts to play.
He tells the boy that his mother played well.
Outside they find a manhole cover.
The man climbs down and finds a storeroom packed with food supplies.
They feast but the boy wonders if they should take all this.
The boy prays with thanks and his father follows.
That night, they stay in the store room.
As the boy sleeps, the man looks through his son’s bag and examines the objects he finds.
He dreams about life before the apocalypse but is woken by his son who is not pleased
that his father looked at his possessions.
The next day, they go into the house to bathe.
At dinner, the man drinks and smokes.
The boy wants to try but the man won’t let him.
They are woken that night by the sound of someone overhead.
The boy thinks it’s a dog but the man says that if it’s a dog then it’ll be with
someone.
He plans to leave immediately but the boy doesn’t want to go.
They aim to take as many supplies with them as they can.
They load up a cart and leave but they spot an old man in the distance on the road.
He tells them that he has nothing for them but the man claims that they are not robbers.
The old man sits down and the boy gives him a can of food.
The old man consumes it hungrily.
Later, the man says that they can’t keep the old man.
They offer him dinner and he asks suspiciously what he has to do in return.
The old man’s name is Ely and tells them that he is ninety but the man believes he
just says that so that no-one hurts him.
Later, Ely asks if the little boy is the man’s son.
He says that he can’t see very well and that when he saw him, he thought he’d died
and the boy was an angel.
Ely says that he had a son once and never thought he’d see a boy again.
Ely doesn’t want to talk about his son to the man.
He tells them that he knew this apocalypse was coming.
The next day, as the old man leaves, the boy is unhappy that they aren’t helping him.
The man estimates that they are about 100 miles from the coast as they hide their cart.
They suddenly notice blood stains in the snow and hear a gang chasing after a woman and
her child.
The gang catch up with her as the man and his son hide.
Suddenly, there is an earthquake and trees start to collapse around them.
Afterwards, everything goes calm again.
They spend the night in an abandoned church.
The boy is awoken by his father coughing up blood in the morning.
The boy says that he had a bad dream.
The man says that dreaming of bad things means that he is still fighting.
Dreaming of good things is when he should start to worry.
They examine a map.
The boy asks if the sea is blue and the man replies that it used to be.
They continue with the cart and finally reach the beach.
It is desolate and covered in trash.
The boy asks what is on the other side.
The man suggests that there could be another father and son sitting on a beach.
That night the boy is sick.
He vomits and has a fever.
He asks his father what he would do if he died.
He says that he would want to die too so that he could be with him.
The man decides to swim out to a sunken ship to see what he can find.
As he leaves a man approaches the sleeping boy’s tent with a knife.
The man returns with a flare gun and finds that they have been robbed.
The man picks up his son and they go in search of their belongings.
They catch up with the thief and the man threatens to kill him.
The boy begs him not to and the man tells the thief to remove all his clothes.
They drag the cart away and leave the thief on the side of the road.
The boy tells his father that they should help him but the man says that he is not the
one who has to worry about everything.
They eventually return for the thief but he has gone.
They leave his clothes and a can of food on the side of the road.
Later on the boy finds a beetle and as it flies away someone shoots an arrow at them.
A second arrow hits the man in the leg and he shoots at the archer with the flare gun.
He runs upstairs and finds a woman sobbing with her shot husband.
He asks why they were following them but she claims that it was the other way round.
The man tends to his own wounds and they continue onwards.
Later on the man collapses and says that he can’t go on.
That night the boy watches as his father struggles to sleep.
In the morning he feeds him a drink and asks if he’s ok.
The man tells him that he needs to keep going as he never knows what may be down the road.
The man continues to remind his son to keep the gun - don’t let anyone take it and keep
looking for the good guys.
The boy says that he wants to stay with his father but the man says that he has to carry
on alone.
He apologizes and they cry together.
During the night, the man dies.
Eventually, he covers his father’s body and walks to the shore.
A stranger approaches him who asks him where the man has gone.
The boy infers to him that his father is dead.
The stranger asks the boy to go with him.
The boy asks if he is one of the good guys.
He says yes and the boy then asks if he has kids and does he eat people.
The stranger says yes and assures him that they aren’t cannibals.
Once the boy is convinced that this man is ‘carrying the fire’, he goes back to say
goodbye to his father.
He says that he will talk to him every day and won't forget - no matter what.
The boy meets the stranger’s family and his wife tells the boy that they were following
him and saw him with his father.
They were concerned about him but now no-one needs to be worried about a thing.
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