Man & Boy - The Road (2009)

This big screen adaptation is as unrelentingly bleak as the incredible Cormac McCarthy novel on which it’s based. It’s also another film that looks closely at the father son relationship, even if it does so through the prism of a post apocalyptic landscape populated almost entirely by killers and cannibalistic gangs. That this relationship is the only spark of hope in an otherwise inhospitable world is no accident, in fact it’s all that maintains either character as they walk the road to the coast in search of salvation and perhaps a shred of proof that humanity is not entirely dead.