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Very pornographic and violent things do not fall into words, there is a tradition. Since ancient Greek dramas, this kind of plot has been dealt with in a unified way, called “ob skena”, translated into English as “off stage”, that is, “not on the stage”. So Sophocles writes about Oedipus blinding himself, reporting to the audience through a messenger. After the formation of this tradition, it has persisted very well in ancient and modern China and abroad. Although there are Dante, Nabokov, Henry Miller, DH Lawrence overseas, and we have rebels such as Nanling Xiaoxiaosheng and Li Yu, who are constantly breaking through the bottom line of expression, but today, even Quentin In “Reservoir Dogs”, the director arranged for Mr Blonde to cut off people’s ears, but he would obediently zoom out the camera 2—”ob skena”. Then let’s come to Cormac. You have probably not read his novels, but you have probably seen some movies adapted from them, such as “No Country for Old Men”, which was made into a cult classic by the Coen Brothers, and then there is a character like Chigurh that has been lingering in your mind for a long time…
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