The Road: "The Most Important Movie of the Year"

Tom Chiarella of Esquire somehow managed to see The Road (originally scheduled to be released Nov. 2008, now coming out Nov. 2009) and not only liked it, but has dubbed it “the most important movie of the year.”

Be sure to read through to the last page, where he discusses how the trailers for the film try to suggest explanations for the apocalypse that occurs before the movie’s (and book’s) plot starts. Chiarella writes, “For someone who loves the book, for anyone who knows the story going in, this is a moment you hoped would never come. Why remind us of the reductive logic of cause and effect?” Rest assured, however, that the trailers are deceptive: the movie itself does not go there.

There. This may be the only time I ever link to Esquire.