So, films adapted from books often fail to live up to the source material. When it happens, it is a wonderful experience. Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, coming from the same Stephen King short stories collection, are a good example, Blade Runner, the adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is another. Unfortunately the list of bad adaptations is far longer than the list of the good. The Road is a book by Cormac McCarthy, and one I loved, and so I hoped that this adaptation would go well.
McCarthy writes in a very specific way, he mirrors the bleakness of the world he writes about with his prose. No words are wasted, no speech marks encircle the dialogue between characters and there is little to offer the promise of a happy ending. The film is the same.
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