When the movie first came out, the advertisements already carried an unsettling tension, hinting at the heavy emotions and dramatic turns waiting within. As a thriller and drama-filled film, The Long Walk wastes no time pulling its audience into a world of unease, where each step forward feels like a step toward inevitable disaster. The pacing is deliberate, drawing you deeper into the story while holding you captive with haunting performances and striking visuals.

What makes this film stand out and would be captivating to College of the Sequoias students is not just the suspense, but it’s humanity. Every scene is drenched with the weight of loss, longing and the unbearable passage of time. The characters feel painfully real; their choices are both heartbreaking and inescapable. By the end, you don’t just watch the tragedy; you carry it with you.

The Long Walk is more than just a movie, it’s a reflection of the fragility of life and the importance of cherishing the people we walk beside while we still can. It reminds us that time is fleeting, love is precious, and even the longest journey eventually reaches its end. Let this story be a call to hold tighter to those moments, those conversations, and those bonds that make the walk worthwhile to the impending tragedy. Along with remembering to take the days one walk at a time and to hold them dear to you it is also to be reminded of the symbolic theme for it from the best time selling author Stephen King, had wrote this during the Vietnam War as a way to show and how the teen boys then were being drafted, practically forced out of their homes to another foreign country.

Another note to add as well this was another tragic symbol was the reference to what the Native Americans had to go through as well but before that war was the Navajo’s “Long Walk” in the late 1800’s, the number of families lost to the harsh conditions they were forced under.