An anti-thesis of "2012," "The Road" is an intimate, harsh portrait of a post-apocalyptic survival. It zooms at a microscopic level of a gut-wrenching family relationship in a bleak and blighted world without civilization. A world where the forecast is always outcast and barren with ruins. A world of starvation and savagery where decency and compassion is lost. Yet as the father and son tediously travels through this trechearous path, they learn that there's still a sliver of humanity left. Make no mistake about it, it is a *hard* film to watch, to say the least. But I do recommend it for a change from the typical CGI-filled doomsday disaster flicks.
