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From ‘Wild Tales’ to ‘Son of the Wicked World’: Director Damián Szifron’s Twisted Journey
If you often watch the “two-minute movie talk” short video on the short video platform, you have probably seen such a wonderful story: “All the passengers on a plane know the same person, what will happen? Xiaomei and Uncle Xie Ding were chatting about her ex-boyfriend Da Zhuang, but the woman in the front row turned around and said that she was Da Zhuang’s elementary school teacher. When she turned around, a man with a beard said, “I am Erhei, Do you remember me? The teacher thought for a while and said, isn’t Da Zhuang your classmate? As soon as the words fell to the ground, someone said, this is…
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Becoming the Protagonist at the End of Life: The Wish of an Old Lady Before Death
One month before the end of the school year, everyone in the class received a letter, all handwritten and mailed to the department in an envelope, from an old lady. The old lady is an American citizen of Chinese descent, surnamed Liu. I wanted to throw the letter away, but when I saw the photo of the old lady attached to the letter, I couldn’t help but take a second look. In the photo is an old lady with a Chinese face, wearing ordinary clothes, sitting in the background of daily life, not at all like the photos used by actors, and there is no sense of drama at all.…
