There was a feature on Channel 4 News tonight about a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road.
I really quite enjoy post-apocalyptic fiction (Think Threads, rather than Mad Max though), and The Road was the only novel I read while I was traveling that I enjoyed enough to actually buy a copy when I got back home, but I’m a bit surprised that it’s been adapted to film. From what I remember there are a couple of sequences in the book where something happens and the Man and the Boy have to react very quickly, but for the most part they’re just trudging along the road trying to find food and purposely avoiding other people.
From what the feature showed it looks like the film captures the scenery pretty well. A lot of bleak woodland and industrial wastes. There’s almost nothing about what it was that destroyed civilisation – the feature mentioned climate change – but it doesn’t really matter. The story isn’t about that.
It seems a strange choice for a film, but I’ll probably go see it anyway.