The Road is playing on only two screens in the metro Phoenix area (population +/- 4 million), released yesterday. Maybe considered poor timing around a food-based holiday?
After eagerly anticipating the long-delayed release, I was moderately disappointed. While the story line remains largely true to the novel, some of the more gruesome scenes released as trailers have been cut, which, while also true to the novel's use of innuendo and implication vs. explicit narrative, is not what movies are about, in my never-humble opinion. If blood and guts are what's happening in the narrative, I expect blood and guts in "living" color on screen, and in this regard, the film seems unnecessarily toned down.
It was nonetheless an extraordinarily faithful leap from print to film, and well worth seeking out, which may be a chore...
After eagerly anticipating the long-delayed release, I was moderately disappointed. While the story line remains largely true to the novel, some of the more gruesome scenes released as trailers have been cut, which, while also true to the novel's use of innuendo and implication vs. explicit narrative, is not what movies are about, in my never-humble opinion. If blood and guts are what's happening in the narrative, I expect blood and guts in "living" color on screen, and in this regard, the film seems unnecessarily toned down.
It was nonetheless an extraordinarily faithful leap from print to film, and well worth seeking out, which may be a chore...
