[Levin]

Watched this last night for the first time. Why had a 7-year old kid read McCarthy's The Road? The plot-point being, with the very muted gray pallette for the entire movie, that we are near the dead ash world depicted in The Road? No, not that we're near, but that life is always like The Road; a struggle, dog-eat-dog, cannibalistic journey where father-sons trudge on with nothing but the insane hope that comes from the familial bond. Tilda was the cannibal, in The Road, I suppose, guarding the root cellar of living flesh. Tilda should not have won an Oscar over Cate Blanchett from I'm Not There or Saoirse Ronan from Atonement.