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- Vietnam’s Modern Auteur in the Making
“That’s a whole lot of swearing. Indigestible pain. Contradiction even!”
These are some of the most common discourses on Vietnam’s most recent directorial sensation, Trấn Thành, and his works.
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But heck yeah, what life on earth survives without being clouded at times?
Thành’s artistic vision eschews Hollywood’s calling for new-world building or superhero sagas. Instead, all three motion pictures follow an unexciting, absurdly ordinary life of a commoner living on paycheque after paycheque in urban Vietnam.
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