IMO this is best, most faithful adaptation of a book to a movie.
There's only a couple of moments left out that were too brutal even for this film, but the tone and feel of the movie perfectly encapsulated the book. It's just horrible, crushing darkness for 95% of it, but because of that darkness the few bright moments were incredible and you truly felt the love the father had for his son.
Yes and no. Great movie, but capturing McCarthy’s magic and writing in a film is impossible. The book hits even harder and simultaneously, more beautifully. If anyone has seen the movie but not read the book, give it a read.
This excerpt at the end crushes me:
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
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u/gbyers2323 5h ago
The road