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The Road

1967Movie1 h 36 min

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High school student Kuo Chang Ying is the son of a lowly road construction worker. Everyday he studies tirelessly for the university entrance exams, desperate to get out of poverty. His next door neighbor is Chen Shu Chun, a prostitute with an abusive husband, another wayward soul seeking an escape. The two foster an unlikely friendship despite his father's objections.

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Artistic License – Biologyin 2,298 titlesIn a world with dwindling food resources, the cannibals stay alive by maintaining human livestock.Crapsack Worldin 2,245 titlesThe Road presents a world that's less half-empty and more one that's almost completely drained, featuring the most thoroughly Crapsack World in all of highbrow literature, surpassed only by I Have No…All 108 tropes

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