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Yeah, No Country is one of my favourite films, but The Road...I don't know. I think you can get away with that kind of bleakness in literature, because good prose can elevate even the harshest subject. Magic of language, innit. I think the immediacy of film makes it more difficult to prettify that kind of material - you can frame a shot really nicely, the cinematography can be perfect, but if you're shooting straight up violence...I dunno...I found the film fairly brutal and unpleasant. And I'm normally all for brutal and unpleasant...