The Road Not Taken (明天，会更好)

A drama about early-onset Alzheimer disease. Combining expert storytelling with commercial appeal, The Road Not Taken reflects on what remains when our understanding of the world begins to disappear. The latest work from acclaimed filmmaker Peter Ho-Sun Chan is a polished and emotionally charged family drama that explores the horror of early-onset Alzheimer disease, as the boundaries of a once-familiar reality dissolve into an alien dimension that’s impossible to trust. Jia Jia is a successful television host whose professional life appears completely under control even as her marriage to a wildlife conservationist is falling apart. When, during a public discussion about AI, she struggles to remember the term, calling it “artificial talent” instead, she blames work-related exhaustion. Soon, however, these lapses become increasingly disturbing. The film’s narrative structure combines Jia Jia’s emerging symptoms with domestic crises involving the deeply fractured relationship with her daughter and the complex rapport she has with her father. The relentless takeover of the disease provides a distinctive rhythm, like an accelerating heartbeat that punctuates the disappearance of intellectual certainties as they are gradually replaced by a raw…