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The Troubled Artist Is a Film in All Its Elements

I was getting sick of his ethic, beautiful propaganda for horrible misery and recipe. It feels a lot like ego trip, depression, art, faux art. I think all the characters are elements of him, aren't there? There's a speech. As an English person, this is a thing which only a person having a psychotic break would do. That you're in like a... Lots of Russian films where they don't do that.

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