From here, they’re supposedly driving cross-country but really stay in the region: their first hotel is the Vernon Manor on Oak Street the café where Raymond counts toothpicks is Pompilio’s in Newport just over the river and the airport where they can’t find a Qantas flight is Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International.
While we first see Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) in Los Angeles, we’re soon in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he visits his childhood home and the institution where he’s reunited with long-lost brother Raymond (Hoffman) – ‘Walbrook’ is in fact St Anne Convent in Melbourne, Kentucky, further south. It’s also a chance to glimpse an unsung part of the USA.
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All in all, these changes were necessary, as some elements of The Road as a book were just too unappetizing to appear on the big screen.This enduring road movie gives us top-form performances from Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. For example, in the books, some had catamites (sexual slaves of a pubescent age used for degradation and harassment). The horrors of the Marauders are also downplayed in the movie. While both the movie and the book see the Boy staying with the Father 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 coast. This moment was borderline unwatchable in the movie, but it's even sadder in the book's ending. An example from The Road includes the death of the Father. A notable example of this elsewhere is the infamous sewer orgy from Stephen King's ITnovel being cut from every on-screen adaptation. Most changes weren't made to change the plot, but in order to make the ending of the movie more palpable for audiences. That being said, The Road is considered a somewhat faithful adaptation. It's necessary for studios to make plenty of changes when it comes to book-to-movie adaptations, and The Road wasn't exempt. For example, there's a passage in which the two main characters pass a group of cannibals who are roasting a human baby on a spit.
While The Road movie adaptation is certainly bleak, the book is actually much worse. That said, The Road’s ending is fairly ambiguous so whether its younger protagonist meets a bleak end or goes on to survive another day of the Mad Max-type apocalypse in the care of a new family is up to the viewer to decide. It’s posited that Guy Pearce’s character and his companions are actually cannibals rather than the saviors they seem to be and have been following the boy until his father died in hopes of securing their next meal. However, some have a much darker interpretation of this potentially hopeful ending for The Road movie. They tell the boy they’ve been following him and his father for some time and ask if he’d like to accompany them, offering a light at the end of the grim tunnel that is the experience of The Road. A couple of days after the boy’s father dies he’s approached by a man ( played by Prometheus' Guy Pearce and credited as “Veteran”) who is travelling with what appears to be his wife (Molly Parker), their two young kids, and their pet dog. The final scenes of The Road’s ending offer a glimmer of hope - at least according to some.
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