The stories are so full of anguish and black comedy that they obliterate any distance between the interviewees and the audience, even when the subjects are shot in shadows or from odd angles to protect their identities.

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Still, it's an odd kind of a slog that manages to keep you partially engaged, even at its most esoteric or absurd, despite an endlessly excitable choir and Hans Zimmer's pitiless score.

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And it will have to be even more aggressive in cutting costs, which may mean even bigger job losses at the group, on top of the 30, 000 odd already announced or made.

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