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Originally Posted by jammies
The telling of the dreams is maybe 10 minutes, not half an hour. I thought it was not only important, but essential - in McCarthy's books, he almost always has a kind of coda in which he makes oblique reference to the book that has come before it in a way which illuminates and redraws its theme, and leaving this out of the movie would have made a poor reinterpretation. I thought it was brilliantly done, myself, just like the rest of the movie - obviously many people disagree, which I think is rooted in the style of the film, which is short on action and dialogue compared to the modern norm.
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This ending I got. The Road's ending, not so much.