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The Long Walk
UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA · 2025

The Long Walk

Francis Lawrence
survival and competition authoritarianism and state control youth exploitation mortality and human endurance societal desensitization to violence
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Synopsis

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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