Crows and Sparrows
Neutral, steady, measured drama / chinese, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.
Our read · Crows and Sparrows (1949) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · chinese entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Crows and Sparrows
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