David from 'David and Margaret
At the Movies'
describes this movie as an "ultra-right-wing
The Road." I'll let the viewers at home make up their own mind, it certainly felt like a moralistic
Mad Max. David is also right in that for post-apocalyptic film,
the Road sets a new benchmark of despairing beauty and realism which cinematically
The book of Eli fails to meet. (Did anyone else feel Denzel Washington was reprising his role in
Man on Fire? ) My brother and I enjoyed it because we are aficionados of anything post-apocalyptic, fans of classics like
the Postman,
12 Monkeys Mad Max and
Reign of Fire. Interestingly Eli is a sort of violent Augustine, preserving the faith amid the ruins of the
Roman American Empire. The movie reflects a sort of broad American evangelicalism, revering the Bible and inclined to moralism. However I kept wondering what if the movie had been funded by the Sydney Anglicans. Roving preachers along the ruined Hume Highway!
