Amenabar also explained that Sampedro's efforts to be allowed to die dictated the structure of the film.

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The tree that carried my ax head did not die, but it lost a major stabilizing part of its structure.

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There are many supporters of the European project who imply that unless the whole structure of treaties, summits, and memoranda carries on moving inexorably on, it will wither and die.

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