Film The road

[Imgormiel]

Sorry, not been online since dec 9. Didn't pay i-net cuz Virgin suxx and ofc xmas etc.

Just watched this, I feel so much stuff and I believe the word awesome is an understatement. This is the ultimate doomsayers fest so kindly fo with ur crap, this is an awesome film end of story. I felt so many different emotions from this story, I don't know where to begin. But it has made me think alot about my life.

here :- The Road (2009)

 

[Imgormiel]

Sorry, not been online since dec 9. Didn't pay i-net cuz Virgin suxx and ofc xmas etc.

Just watched this, I feel so much stuff and I believe the word awesome is an understatement. This is the ultimate doomsayers fest so kindly fo with ur crap, this is an awesome film end of story. I felt so many different emotions from this story, I don't know where to begin. But it has made me think alot about my life.

here :- The Road (2009)

And yeah, I just watched Avatar too, sorry, but imo the road > Avatar. 99% of dogs fed pedigree chum disagree with me but fuck em

 

[eksdee]

avatar is complete overhyped cack.

i thought the road was incredible, had me in tears at the end

 

[Everz]

the road was ace, took the missus to it and found it brilliant.

 

[Imgormiel]

I am 40 this year, unmarried an no kids. I have a father that passed a few years ago. This film made me think of two things. I remember my father and I remember how it was when I was in a heavy relationship. I remember how much I miss him and how I miss being loved. So there is the selfish and the selfless there in that.

The positive of it was that I know now how much I have missed by not having a son of my own and that now, I really do understand to want a kid of my own. I know my father is gone, but I need to share my heart with my own. I am not showing that my heart aches because my own family shuns me. Sometimes, that is just what is, but what I can do is share something just as precious that I have. That is me with a son or daughter and wife of my own. This film really has taught me what it means to be a parent. I've done the step father bit with a few families, but I guess until now I never really wanted it as much as I do now. I understand now what my job is for the next couple of decades of my life. I just hope that I've not left it too late.

 

[Everz]

Never to late mate, a friend of my moms didnt start up a family until she was in her late 40's, never to late at all.

 

[Azurus]

It's a really good film. The book is better (surprise surprise), Cormac Mcarthy is an amazing author. Blood Meridian is probably his best book but The Road comes a close second.

 

[Everz]

True, as often is the case the book is miles better.

 

[Imgormiel]

True, as often is the case the book is miles better.

I am looking forward to the day that I can finish with my past work and start my own book. It seems weird to me that when I enter conversation these days that my friends expect me to enter full narrative about any thing that I need to convey yet that they don't do that themselves. I guess that is because I am a writer/journalist.
So I guess in some ways that I am looking forward to the day that I can write something on a piece of paper or the i-net and just write for me and have no one question what it is that I am saying, because what I say is enough.

I had a conversation the other week in the pub about this and how tired I am of having to write in such a formulaic way that I had to make it simple enough for everyone to understand. This in my opinion is the wrong way to go.

There may be approaching 7 billion people on this planet, but there is no possible way to reach all of them. In fact, just reaching 1% of them would be enough for you to see out the rest of your days comfortably as a writer. The person I was speaking to agreed, perhaps rightly or wrongly.

On a creative level I am looking forward to ridding myself of those shackles. Books always > film. Film always = holes left in story and then add the ingredient 'I don't have the attention span for such detail' = film always lose. I find that sad, despite this book that I have not read, I think this has done the job quite well as a film. I can honestly say that the last time I saw something like this, was Wim Wenders Paris Texas.