The Road - Surviving at home (the last bullets) | That’s all we have left | Charlize Theron
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The Road (2009) directed by John Hillcoat.
Screenplay by Joe Penhall based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron,
Robert Duvall, Michael K. Williams, Guy Pearce)
Based on Cormac McCarthy's novel (2006)
Cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe
Read my in-depth analysis:
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The Road was previewed at the Venice Film Festival (September 3, 2009)
and at the Toronto Film Festival (September 13, 2009).
The Road (2009) - Surviving at home (the last bullets) | That’s all we have left
| Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron
Narrative elements:
The wife
The personal story of the wife can be described considering two temporal coordinates:
the period before the catastrophe, and the following period.
In the series of memories following the catastrophe:
• In one night the world changes forever[1]: awakened by the flashes caused by the cataclysm, man rushes to the bathroom to collect water reserves. Electricity is already absent. The wife is pregnant. Outside, people scream.
• Depressed, his wife looks out the window sitting on the piano.[2] Outside, the strong wind carries the smoke from the burning hills. At home, candles, canned food, batteries, water tanks, and scattered objects testify to the dramatic conditions of survival. Intent on eating beans prepared by her husband, the woman suddenly manifests the breaking of the waters from the placenta. Initially agitated and opposed to giving birth for pessimistic reasons, the wife is finally convinced and assisted by the man, and in the night, between screams of pain and despair, the baby is born.
• The increase in the cold and the lack of fuel force the man to destroy the piano with an ax to obtain firewood. The wife assists resignedly with her young son (3-4 years of age) in her arms.
• With only two bullets left, the wife scolds her husband and expresses her intention to commit suicide with her son to avoid being caught, raped and killed by cannibals. While the parents are arguing, the child (now 9-10 years old) draws crayons on the wall.[3] Aware of not being able to convince her husband, the woman returns the gun and moves to wash the hair of the boy, now completely apathetic towards the affectionate gaze of his son. Still, standing by the door, the father watches them from behind and then walks away.
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Dialogue
[Wife]
That’s all we have left. I should’ve done it a long time ago. I should’ve done it when we had more bullets. I don’t know why I listened to you. They’re gonna catch up with us and they’re going to kill us. They’re gonna rape me, and then they’re gonna rape your son and they’re gonna kill us and eat us.
[Man]
Whatever it takes...
[Wife]
Stop it.
[Man]
I told you...
[Wife]
Stop it!
[Man]
I will do anything. Anything.
[Wife]
Like what? Hmm? I don’t even know why I ask you. I should just go ahead and empty every goddamn bullet into my brain and leave you with nothing. That’s what I should do!
[Man]
Shh. Please don’t talk like that.
[Wife]
You’re right. There’s nothing left to talk about.
My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.
[Man]
We have to. We will survive this.
We are not gonna quit. We’re not gonna quit.
[Wife]
I don’t want to just survive. Don’t you get it? I don’t want to. Why won’t you let me take him with me? Don’t touch it! I would take him with me if it weren’t for you. You know that.
[Man]
Listen to yourself. You sound... crazy.
[Wife]
Other families are doing it.
Hi. Let’s go take a bath.
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Notes
[1] The sentence purposely takes up the official promotional text:
“In a moment, the world changed forever.” See bit.ly/2XFLZx9
[2] In the background, among the series of books resting on the piano, an atlas of New Zealand is distinguishable, perhaps consulted to evaluate a possible escape away from the epicenter of the catastrophe that took place in the United States.
[3] The drawings include: a stylized male figure with red eyes, pointed teeth and blood from the mouth; a sort of donkey, a white bird inserted in a large circle; the inscription “Kodi” (real name of the young actor Kodi Smit-McPhee), and other secondary elements.
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Read the full analysis by Humenhoid:
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He and Rick from Walking Dead could be brothers, similar intensity
lemme tell you summmm
"She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift."
"You can't even see out there!" "You don't need to... you don't need to see...."
Crazy the story is done by the dame guy that did no country for old men
I haven't seen this, so does she end up ending herself?
She walks out into the darkness and you never see her again. In the book it implies she uses obsidian to cut her wrists. He had taught her how sharp it is and because the world's on fire there's probably an abundance of it.
@@SwizzleTheNerd Interesting. I'm going to check out the book now, thanks
its in the movie, did you not see this scene?
@@NaggersandJoggersso see how he says "I haven't seen this?" Go from there and see if you can figure it out.
I always thought it was more of “she walked out at far as she could, and let the cold kill her”.
Like diving down in the ocean deep enough to not have enough air left in your lungs to make it back up
I love Viggo in this scene. Master Class acting.
I find the mere dropping of the two remaining bullets and her softly saying “That’s all we have left” the most despairing thing in this scene.
Shes been on The Road, then she went on The Fury Road. Whats next?
Thank you for this
should have reloading supplies
She went out and join The Citadel to command the War Rig
In a dooms day scenario Theron’s character is every woman lol
yep
You're not one of the good guys
@@rosalindliang6132 I’m one of the truth guys
Yea duh because women get raped in almost every disaster scenario,ever heard of war crimes?this is that times a hundred
I would've listened to Charlize on this one folks...