The Long Walk Review: This is America, don’t pick you up now

by Dru diet
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Long walk It is Stephen King’s second favorite novel after Obus terrifying, He – she. I remember I read the novel Dystopian in the fifth grade and thinking, “This would make a great movie if they adapt it properly.” I was waiting for a movie for almost three decades of my life. It happened nearly several times, once with Salvation and Green tendency Director Frank Darbonst. When this version died on the vine, I often gave up the idea that adapting the loyal movie will be produced at all.

Fortunately, after putting his seal on what is inspired by ” Long walk“A series of Hunger games Complete, director Francis Lawrence along with the screenwriter JT Mollner did what I did not think I would see her: Bring the dark story, brutal to the screen in a way that is in line with the spirit of the novel.

There is no denial that Long walk It is one of the best year films that many people will not want to see. That is why it is very important to look at it.

Walking or dies for this country that dies

It is impossible to get rid of how Long walkA story Stephen King began writing as a university student in 1966, still feels a painful relationship in 2025. The hypothesis is simple: America has left a minor after a war of bump, and in order to preserve the dream (reading: a lie) alive, a fascist government led by an unknown specialty (Mark Hamil In an ideal piece of casting) the hiking marathon was created in the country. There is no finish line. Everyone goes until it decreases to less than a certain speed, and if they do not pick up the speed after three warnings, they are executed by soldiers without a soul. Only one boy can leave standing and his prize is indescribable fortunes with one desire to grant the government.

The fascist pioneer sees this concept of long walk as a celebration of America. If you continue to walk, you can win! Just pull the bootstraps, boys. It is easy like putting one foot in front of the other. This malicious idea is at the heart of the stumbling film about America. Whether this is the privacy that the army is nothing more than a machine that depends on the killing of children, or the great idea of the American dream, as it is an islands hanging in front of us all, the criticism here is hidden like the lead that you will see passes through the brains of many children.

Difficult facts left bleeding on the sidewalk

But this Thing I found very strong about Long walk When I read it for the first time as a boy: he puts the difficult facts about America directly in your face, knowing that you do not want to look at it. Stephen King wanted to tell a speculative story that put all the ugly evils of America in a way that emphasized their strict terror. Like Homerus, Odysseus clearly had, “The war is young people who die and speak the elderly.” If the modern story takes that in amber, it is so Long walk.

All this harsh honesty is proven by a group of young actors who will break your heart if you have one, because it is clear that we live in an era in which sympathy for sin is called by the monsters that run the world. Seeing these boys build friendships in the midst of a system condemned to kill them because of his own propaganda, he is horrific at the extreme. I was crying in more than a few moments when you “get a ticket” some of the characters even though I knew that their fate had been closed from the moment when the movie started. It is a testimony of their performance and writing the scenario that I wanted to live, although I knew this was never a possibility.

Look, Long walk It is the type of movie that is difficult to recommend because most people do not want to face films. They just want a funny person to do something funny, or to see lovers like lovers like love, or to see the space ship doing Thing because it looks great, or to see a good man overcoming the bad man and I think this is how the world really works. This is a story that is intentionally punished that you try to make you angry and disgusting what America is already. How did you feel the King’s novel throughout those years as a smaller boy than the heroes, and the film was the same as the effect on an adult who lives in a country that resembles more and more Long walk every day.

Hold your friends. Continue walking. And *** The pioneer.