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The Road
directed by Zanbo Zhang
20151h 35m★ 8.5
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A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was from. Due to the high cost of construction, construction companies and migrant workers who live on road work rush to here like the tide. In the following four years, they root in this strange place for interests, paying sweat and blood, even their lives. With their arrival, local village and peasants are forced to change their lives. Many hidden interest lines and hidden rules about road construction of the nation are unveiled, together with the shocking truth and emerging secrets.
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Director
Zanbo Zhang
Language
Chinese
based on a book
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The Roadby Cormac McCarthy (2006)
The film captures the bleakness but McCarthy's novel is more interior — the father's internal monologue is the real story
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