The Discomfort Of Fake Despair

I tried to watch the DVD of the film
of Cormac McCarthy's bleak book
'The Road', but what came through
the script was just not bleak enough,
though the backdrops were worthy of Andrei Tarkovsky.

I stopped the disc at a sentimental moment
two thirds of the way through,
soon after a spoken comment finally lodged with me.
After being a guest at a big picnic of tinned food.
In a bunker a blind and ragged Robert Duvall
was asked 'Do you ever think of suicide?'
to which he replied 'No, I never had that luxury'.