Movie Analysis (Summative)

Plot Summary:
The movie we chose is called The Road and it’s about a father and son trying to survive in a destroyed world. What happened is that an unspecified destruction had destroyed civilization, killed most animals and plants, and blocked out the sun. They are trying to survive not dying of hunger and not freezing to death as well. What they try to do is they try to go south hoping that it’s warmer and they find shelter. While on their travels, food, and temporary shelter is scarce plus they meet other survivors as well, which isn’t a good thing. The thing is most of these survivors are willing to do anything to survive and this includes cannibalism. So they meet bands of cannibals throughout the movie and they have many close calls and see people get eaten or killed.

First Layer of the Movie is the feeling of the atmosphere that the entire films gives you. It was gloomy, dark, no sun etc... They explained why everything happened this way throughout the movie. There was cannibalism and a constant awareness of danger presented throughout the movie by the father and the song. They could be in danger any moment and that brings a creepy feeling.

Second layer of the movie is about when in desperate situations, human would do what human does best. Survive. Without society, education of humanity, houses, basically everything that was invented. We would just down to simple mammals who only cares about eating, sleeping, and surviving. Some might think that the cannibal group might be heartless and brutal, but do they want to do it? Do they want to go as low as other human to survive? Im sure not. Maybe they even know that what they are doing is against everything that we were brought up to believe and abide by. But this is what we are, you either survive by any means necessary and live longer, or you die. This movie did a great job of telling us where we human came from, and how much we have evolved and where we stand now.

The filmmaker is able to convey evil and darkness through the setting being in a dark gloomy place that is dead. As seen in the movie, animals and plants are dead and freezing temperatures and snow is shown which we know as snow and dead trees as a creepy setting.

Everybody might think of darkness as a bad thing, we should all avoid it and escape from it, I am not saying you shouldn't. But if you look at it from another angle, darkness tells us what we as human are weak against, we can see people's true faces, and it actually clarifies things. It can tell us what we need, what we want, and what we should avoid.

Darkness actually comes from light, the righteousness, and good intentions. In the movie I am Legend, the doctor wanted to cure cancer, to make people survive and live longer, but it turned out to be a disaster. This is why most movies, we get to see the villains' good sides until they turn evil, in the end.

Going to harm another person and get up in their business is a sign of darkness. Power, ambition, and desire, all are characteristics a character must bear if they represent darkness.

T-W
We think most people in the world would try to put themselves forward in order to gain something. In this case, people went to great depths as to kill other people to take their valuables and eat their corpses. We believe if the world were in that situation, being realistic some people might be driven insane enough to go to those depths, but I’m not saying everyone would. People would end up dying from starvation since there wouldn’t be any food and they wouldn’t think of cannibalism and other people would just commit suicide. The fact is, the people that are still alive would be cannibals as they would be alive because they ate other people and in this world…well it would just be filled with darkness wouldn’t it?

where is your movie analysis

where is your movie analysis????
You said it was on the blog. I will check the class one as well.

Mrs. C