ertel of the night

“The film, as one of us has previously seen in a very rough, unfinished form, concerns a man and his son as they make their way across the barren wasteland in an effort to prolong suffering and starvation in order to survive. The trailer, however, seems to depict a father-son duo in a race against time to stop an evil menace that has ravaged the world, while also finding space for the controversial footage depicted in the Esquire piece, context-less news footage of various natural disasters that doesn’t in any way appear in the novel. Also misleading is the suggestion that Viggo Mortensen’s father figure succumbs to some sort of bloodlust, and that Charlize Theron’s wife character is a part of the main story, not only featured in cryptic flashbacks and dream sequences. The trailer’s build-up is especially curious, especially the match-cut of Michael K. Williams brandishing a gun and a random explosion before the title card. A random explosion that, it goes without saying, is not at all in the film.”

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