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Ep. 20: In Bruges

Cinema of Meaning

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Movie Review - Harry Kills a Dwarf

The whole moral crux of the story is like Ray has accidentally killed this child and the hitman draw a line in the sand where they're like you can kill somebody you're paid to kill you can kill an adult but like a child that's across the line. A lot of the movie is spent like dealing with where exactly that line falls because Harry ends up killing Jimmy the dwarf who's dressed up as a child before he kills himself. The theme of childhood just then crops up in a lot of different places like things take place on a playground  in the film by Nicholas Roig there's scenes of children in that movie that play a significant role.

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