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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is a genuinely exceptional movie: probably the single best movie ever made on the Iraq war.

It's called "Once upon a time in the Middle East" (欢迎来龙餐馆) and I just watched it in a Chinese movie theater, but I'm sure it will be available abroad at some point (if not the case already).

It follows the story of a Chinese chef, Xu Fu, who travels to Iraq pre-war to cook at a Chinese restaurant in Baghdad. When the war breaks out, he initially wants nothing to do with it - he's already bought his ticket home. But his boss Zaid, an official at the water and electricity ministry, convinces him to stay and keep supplying meals to the safe zone for high pay.

As the occupation descends into chaos, Xu Fu gets pulled deeper into the conflict: he's detained and interrogated by the Americans for his ties to Zaid (who has become an insurgent after his family died in the war), then he gets detained by the insurgency when they attack the US prison where he was held, and he eventually end up trying to protect a group of orphans from being recruited as child bombers.

It's the contrary of pro-war propaganda, as war movies too often are: it's a film about how war swallows everyone who thinks they can stand apart from it. There are no glorious causes in it, no "good" or "bad" side, only people caught in the madness.

It's not even anti-American, at least not in a crude way: the film clearly blames the US for starting the war - which they did - but Xu Fu ends up befriending a group of American soldiers who become patrons of his restaurant and are themselves clearly portrayed as victims of the war, as are Iraqis.

As such there is no hatred in this movie - the only hatred is against hate itself, against the dynamic of war and maybe against rulers who decide to trigger it.

Which makes it a very subtle and profound film: it never lectures, never simplifies, and lets the tragedy play out quietly until it overwhelms you.

People weary of Hollywood's black-and-white framing, where wars are always morality plays with designated good guys, will find it deeply refreshing: here there are just human beings, which is precisely what makes it so devastating.

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@jangkku920 安排伴娘开门站位只是为了摄影摄像画面观感和仪式秩序不被影响而已，所谓的“抢福”不过是没有眼力见的人不明所以的走动，或许有这种人存在，但实际不是。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@Shioochic_Xyn 为了起号，无所不用其极……专往奇葩的话题引

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

今天的重庆温度适宜，天很蓝云也长得很标准。所以我决定爱这个世界15分钟。

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@RsenseinoJia 卫生纸虽然可以降解，但也需要时间。如果每天都扔，养成习惯……厕所是会堵的。所以还是扔垃圾桶吧。

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@ASK_FEINIAO @Ma_WuKong 管好自己就行…对别人的喜好指指点点干嘛。爹味不要太重～

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@zhusu 天庭应该就长这样……恢弘壮观

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

《柔美的细胞小将3》是我看的最喜欢的一季～
柔美能再谈十个男朋友吗？求求了，就当是为了我。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@aoyu1729 真巧～我也在景德镇旅行。

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当杯控来到景德镇，跟老鼠进了米缸有什么区别。

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@nn00ut 韩国的职高真的这么夸张吗

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@hey_sucheol 在我们重庆，这个叫芭乐。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@hey_sucheol 从生物学角度来说蓝莓不可能长这么大，退一万步来讲，如果已经有成熟的技术培育了，这蓝莓早就在市场上火起来了，就像以前的阳光玫瑰葡萄一样，所以这些图都是假的，AI生成的。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@hey_sucheol 这种倒反天罡的东西最好不要信，假的。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

今天路过以前上班的地方，想起了那个时候的自己，有种难以言喻的感觉。没想到日子就这么过来了…… 但无论怎样，现在的我既不怀念曾经的自己，对当下的自己也无法毫无保留的喜欢。

也许人活着就是在重复当中去抵抗重复带来的庸碌、无常和虚无。好吧，我知道，与自己和解是一个人的终身课题。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

重庆美食，喜欢吃辣的有口福了。

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@lolitascak3 好生气 看得我很生气 女孩该有多绝望和痛苦

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@TraMy199 看着像癫痫发作然后咬伤舌头吐血…希望这位朋友后面历史就医平安无事

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@dudyoji 我是不婚主义者，我个人认为结婚对女人没有任何的好处，我一个人生活照顾自己已经很辛苦了，不想多一个人来制造问题或者家务给我。反正我自己能挣钱…能养活自己。

[Sandy @Sandannnnn]

@riyura_oO 从心理学的角度来解释，你的拒绝让他自尊心受损，所以通过暴力的形式来挽回颜面。本质上就是自恋受损转而变成攻击，表白把他放置在一个弱势的被动的位置上，通过欺负有一种重获权力的错觉。这就是男权叙事培养出来的怪物。