与其许多作品不同，本片以直白的风格讲述了一个简单的故事：一名男孩受父母教唆，通过假遇车祸，借机从表面上的肇事者那里敲诈钱财。

Unlike many of his films, it tells a simple story in straightforward fashion: a boy is taught by his parents to fake car accidents in order to extort money from the ostensible culprits.

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这个故事表面上听起来离谱，尤其是Ceglia整整六年后才提及这件事情。

The story sounded outrageous on the surface, especially as Ceglia had waited a full six years before speaking up.

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我从故事剩下的地方，重新开始，我要向他们描述，尽管表面上看不出来，但我父亲的生命实际上并没有完整地活着走出那条船。

I pick up where I left off, and go on to describe to them how, despite all appearances, my father did not actually make it off that boat alive.

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So, the wind over the face of deep, now it's demythologized, So it's as if they're invoking the story That would have been familiar and yet changing it.

现在，掠过混沌表面的气流是没有神话色彩的，它似乎是从故事中引用的,它看来熟悉却又稍有改动。

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