Road Not Taken

December. 10,2016

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Hong Kong Students' Movement Student Protest

Trailer Synopsis Cast

After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great protest are like yesterday for Billy and Popsy, students in the University of Hong Kong who took part in the movement. One of them now becomes a student leader, while the other chooses a low-profile life as a private tutor. Amid the rapid social changes, when the Communist Beijing government is extending their influence to Hong Kong to take away the freedom and democracy, how would the youths see their future? Do they still see hopes, when both peaceful protests and radical actions seem to be futile?

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Reviews

Ehirerapp

2016/12/10

Waste of time

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Protraph

2016/12/11

Lack of good storyline.

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Inadvands

2016/12/12

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

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SparkMore

2016/12/13

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

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