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The Road, starring Viggo Mortenson, finally made it to the local independent cinema.  Its one of those movies that makes you think about how you’d react in the same situation.  Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, its set in an utterly defoliated, devastated world due to an unexplained disaster where a father and son trudge on foot toward the coast, scavenging for food and trying to avoid danger, hoping to find a semblance of comfort.  Cheery holiday fare, indeed.  My choice was between that or The House of the Devil.  Maybe I’ll save that for Christmas Eve.

Compared to the trailer below, the print of this movie I saw, was very nearly black/white which gave it a much bleaker tone.  The trailer has much more color in the scenes and must be from footage before final editing was made.  Notice the green grass in front of a building at 44 seconds.  That scene is in the movie, but there’s no green grass.  Also, the scenes in the trailer of floods, tornadoes, etc, aren’t in the movie.  There’s no explanation of how the world became this way.  The only references to the situation are a comment about “just another earthquake”.  And since their journey looked to be south from the North Eastern US, an earthquake there would certainly be odd.