Tragedy In The Movie The Road
Tragedy is defined as an act which creates suffering, sorrow, regret. In other words, it can also be defined as a nightmare by which the person might suffer from a physical as well as mental pain. Tragedy is the one which will not wait for any one or for the right moment the time when it must happen, it happens. Tragedy is so severe and bad that sometimes it may take the live of a person. As it is said that suffering and tragedy are two parts of a same coin. Similar to tragedy, suffering is also another main part of life which no one can stop with emotions or while fighting this to happen. They both are the reality of everyone’s lives. Whenever the person is sad or is in problem, they always remember or pray to god to overcome that sadness, suffering and tragedy. However, they never thank God or pray in their joy and happiness.
As a result, we know that God is not selfish like the human beings in this mean world, but he tests everyone. People have a found a temporary solution to the suffering as we know Suffering is the part of life and must occur in one’s life. Therefore, their solution to it is religion, following the path of religion to overcome all their complications. Everyone hopes in God’s faithfulness. While watching the movie: “THE ROAD”, the very bad tragedy happened in it. Like above mentioned, the boy and the father have faced the tragedies in this movie which made the father even cry in fear of saving his son from every bad moment or sufferings. Every father’s nightmare does not allow him to breath a single moment without fear and stress, just like the same had happened in the movie. There is so many emotions in the movie where the father along with his son have faced all the tragic moment with the strong strength.
The father and his son throughout the movie have wandered the post apocalyptic world where they are trying to keep all their dreams and nightmares alive. They suffered a lot of pains in this tragic where the civilization is still alive. In this movie the father played a very good and kind-hearted role where he takes care of his son without thinking of himself and about the future. After watching the whole movie, I got to know that tragedies when come destroy the person as well as his life at once leaving the bad impact on the sufferers. Its rightly said that: Tragedy and sufferings hurt. Its because they involve a big loss of one’s life. The circumstances, situation that have occurred in this movie and the difficulties they both have faced can best be explained with few illustrations.
The first and foremost example is when they both were walking alone with each other down on the road covered all with snow and black ice. They both feared with cannibals and hunger. This made them live their life with tensions and sufferings. The second illustration is when the father forcefully was teaching his son how to hold the gun and how to shoot the enemies with it. As a result, this is the difficulty which they had faced that’s why he taught his son how to work with guns. The third tragedy they both had was when they both was finding the shelter to live and food to eat. Then there by a truck passed in which there were so many armed men. One of the strangers hold the boy and pointed out the knife under his chin. The father was having a gun.
Thus, he shot the stranger then and they only, grabbed his son from him and ran away to hide from the other men. The fourth was the father at once went at his flashback where his wife have said that whenever he will shoot a stranger. They will be revenged by the stranger’s friends and wife and his son will be raped and after that they all three will be killed and eaten by them. These are the few and main tragedies that have taken place in this movie. At one moment, I felt that No this is not the tragedy they are facing. I have been into many difficulties in my life and I feel that this just to express the viewers how the tragedy is and if anyone has not faced then what they can do if they suffer the same. They both are walking on the snowy road and there was scene where the man removed his jacket off and this totally shows fake and after that he started walking in the dark to die.
At the end of the movie, the son was given an option by the stranger on the beach that whose finger he will hold to continue his life whether his father’s or the stranger’s. thus, he forgot, all the love his father gave him, and all the support and he hold the hand of the stranger. This made me really confused that what happened at the end. He forgot all his attachment with his family and followed the stranger who already had his wife and is father of one boy and a girl. This is totally the flip point of his life. The conclusion of this whole movie is that in this the father and son acted in the way they were asked to do by the directors because they want to gave a message to the audience that these are some tragedies which have taken place in the lives of human beings the only difference is that the way by which they face them is totally different and opposite. The most tragic moment which I faced in my is the death of my grandfather I was really shocked and helpless when I come to know about this bad news. I really love my grandfather and was very attached to him. I know that death is inevitable this must occur but knowing the fact also we fear of it. Just like that in this movie, the father had handled all the complications with different emotion and feeling. (ReelRundown, n. d. )(The Guardian, n. d. )
