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A shy, inhibited law student representing the traditional, more scrupulous Italy.

An exuberant, boorish, and reckless hedonist who lives entirely in the present. He drives a Lancia Aurelia B24, an iconic status symbol that—much like Bruno—is slightly banged up and aggressive. Il_sorpasso_1962_HD_-_Altadefinizione01

The narrative engine is the unlikely pairing of two polar opposites: A shy, inhibited law student representing the traditional,

Their chance encounter on a deserted Ferragosto (holiday) in Rome begins a two-day odyssey that is ostensibly a comedy but functions as a "moral fable". Bruno represents the new, individualistic, and consumerist spirit of the 1960s, while Roberto stands for the fading, more interiorized values of the 1950s. The Symbolic Road inhibited law student representing the traditional