And as pointed out in your reading, the characters all seem to deal with something about the past.

中都有所体现，在你的阅读材料中也提到了,戏中角色似乎都在处理关于过去的一些问题。

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"There is something very underdog-ish about all of the characters played by Kyle Schmid, Anastasia, Ato and I, " Weston-Jones said.

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There is something sick about reducing a solemn act to a few characters.

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Assayas is a virtuoso with the camera, and he may have something serious to say about the brutal impersonality of global capitalism, yet the characters jump around so much, and shift alliances so rapidly, that you wind up not giving a damn about any of them.

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