Over the weekend I watched the 2007 Australian film Romulus, My Father. I had two distinct reasons for giving the modestly-reviewed film two hours of my life:
A) I will watch anything that has Eric Bana in it. Anything. And...
B) I was curious about this Kodi Smit-McPhee kid, who played the main character in R,MF and since then has gone on to be cast as the son in the Viggo-starring adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's downer-novel-to-end -all-downer-novels The Road.
Well The Bana his usual dreamy self, of course, and this Kodi kid is terrific (the movie itself was mostly aimless and relentlessly dreary, but not awful, and it was nice to see my beloved Franke Potente as well). Anyway, Smit-McPhee should, in my ever-so-humble opinion, make for a terrific casting choice for the son in The Road. He certainly proved his acting chops opposite unrelenting misery in Romulus.
All this is my rambly way of pointing y'all to an article in today's NYT on the filming of The Road, which includes a couple of new photographs, including this one:
I'm cautiously optimistic on the film; cautious because the story is so unhappy that I fear I might need therapy after watching it. But optimistic because it's also beautifully told. Torn.
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I don't see how the ending could be any more depressing than "The Mist."
Agreed on the film, but I wasn't even too sold on McPhee. I think it's because of that silly "IT'S MEEEEE!" scene they kept showing on TV.
It's not so much that The Road's ending is particularly depressing as much as the...all-the-rest-of-it is.
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