What happens to the boy

The way The ending is just as bleak as the rest of the post-apocalyptic drama. Director John Hillcoat adapted the book by Cormac McCarthy The way In 2009. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star as a father and son (credited only as “Man” and “Boy”) trying to survive after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of the population. The way Follow the man and the boy as they head south through the barren wasteland in search of the coast and warmer climes, exploring what little food they can find and having terrifying encounters with marauders and cannibals along the way.

The man tries to protect his son as best he can, but keeps a gun loaded with their last bullet and ensures that the boy knows how to take his own life, since death is not the worst fate for the boy in the post-apocalyptic 2019 shown in The way. by The way Finally, the couple finally arrive at the beach. However, the man is shot in the leg with an arrow by a paranoid survivor. He kills his attacker, but slowly succumbs to his wound and a worrying cough that he was plagued with his son watches him die.

The road has a deliberately bittersweet ending

The boy may have found salvation at the end of the road

The last scenes of The way Endings offer a glimmer of hope – at least according to some. A couple of days after the boy’s father dies he is approached by a man (played by Prometheus Guy Pearce and credited as “veteran”) who was traveling with what turned out to be his wife (Molly Parker), their two young kids and their pet dog. They tell the boy that they have been following him and his father for some time and ask if he would like to accompany them, offering a light at the end of the dark tunnel that is the experience of The way.

However, some have a much darker interpretation of this potentially hopeful ending The way Movie. It is posited that Guy Pearce’s character and his companions are actually cannibals rather than the saviors they appear to be and have followed the boy until his father died in hopes of securing their next meal. That said, The way The ending is quite ambiguous, so whether his younger protagonist meets a bleak end or continues to survive another day of the Mad Max– Type apocalypse in the care of a new family is up to the viewer to decide.

The road movie is bleak but has nothing on the book

Cormac McCarthy’s story is much worse

While The way Movie adaptation is certainly bleak, the book is actually much worse. For example, there is a passage in which the two main characters pass a group of cannibals who are roasting a human baby on a spit. It is necessary for studios to make many changes when it comes to book-to-film adaptations, and The way was not exempted. that is, The way is considered a somewhat faithful adaptation.

Most changes are not made to change the plot, but to make the end of the movie more palpable for the audience. A notable example of this elsewhere is Stephen King’s infamous sewer orgy it Novel was cut from each screen adaptation. A parable of The way including the death of the father. The death of Viggo Mortensen’s character was borderline unwatchable in the movie, but it’s even sadder at the end of the book.

While both the movie and the book see the boy staying with the father for three days after his death, in the book, the father actually dies in the woods after attempting to set up a campsite, never getting to see the beach. The horrors of the Marauders are also downplayed in the movie. For example, in the books, some have catamites (sex slaves of a pubescent age used for humiliation and harassment). All in all, the changes are necessary, as some elements of The way As a book was just too unappetizing to appear on the big screen.

The meaning of the end of the road

The movie’s finale is either uplifting or nihilistic

The way The ending is undeniably bleak. However, the whole movie is one with a lot of depth, and there is a clear thematic meaning behind the journey that the man and the boy take, as well as the boy being found on the beach after watching his father drive away. A key theme of The way is loss. The man is tormented by visions of his wife, and how she took her own life. Even in the harsh and unrelenting world the man and the boy now inhabit, loss still plagues the man’s mind.

This is also true of the boys, though The loss is of his father during the ending of The way. Despite the boy’s pleading, the man leaves due to his wounds and a possible infection. The boy is truly alone for the first time, his emotional state mirroring the mostly empty post-apocalyptic world around him. It’s not just the wider world that’s gone for the man and the boy. With the death of his wife, the man’s personal world collapses, and the same is true for the boy once the man dies in the end.

Then, of course, there is the question of the meaning behind the family found the boy in the final scenes of The way ending The meaning of this moment can be read in two different ways, depending on what the viewer thinks happens next. If they take the pessimistic view, that the family has bad intentions for the boy, then This moment could be said to thematically represent that there is always something to lose – an incredibly bleak message for an equally bleak movie.

However, the viewer should interpret the end of The way More optimistic, then The deeper meaning behind the family finding the boy may be that it is possible to find reasons to hope even in the darkest of times. Finally, due to the ambiguous nature of the film, the meaning of The way The ending is down to interpretation, but there’s no doubt that viewers have a lot to process and ponder as the credits roll.

As the road ending is obtained

The movie is polarizing thanks to the ending

The way Was a tough movie for many fans. While critics gave it a certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 74%, the audience score was lower, at 68%, mostly discounted because it’s a hard watch. One audience reviewer wrote“It’s utterly depressing and disturbing as we see the humanity drained from each character until they shrink, literally and metaphorically..” It is an example of these Fans who don’t find much light at the end of the film, even with the family showing up.

However, critic Peter Travers of Rolling Stone Saw Hope at the end, arguing that the conclusion of the film shows that it is okay to send the young to fight the world alone:

“The father’s consent is the concession he makes to hope, just as the father must renege on his promise never to send his son out into darkness alone, The way Worth bracing against the odds of what McCarthy called the “dimming” of the world. In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat—through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee—carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.

There are also fans who see the family as salvation in the end. In A Reddit Thread discussing The way Finally, the OP LuminaTitan wrote, “The film is so bleak throughout the vast majority of it that the ending is almost impossible to end on a hopeful note, otherwise it would be practically unbearable..” Still, some commenters still think the family is cannibals, with Harmonious Lexus writing, “When I read the book, I felt the family was good but when I watched the movie I felt the family was bad.“