WOULD you want to survive a disaster that wiped out virtually all life, that blocked out the sun, layered the planet in a blanket of ash and ended human civilisation as we know it?
Cormac McCarthy’s answer in his post-apocalyptic novel The Road is, probably yes, so long as you had someone else to live for. John Hillcoat’s brilliantly shot film of the book makes much of the author’s celebration of human compassion in the midst of horror, which is just as well since without it the story’s backdrop would be overwhelmingly dismal.
The film follows the journey of a…
