characters
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Everything in “Mother Mary” feels like it exists in a dream within a dream: the tertiary characters who fade in and out of the narrative, the catchy yet indistinct pop songs, the dreary midnight-blue location.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Li and Baicai both showed AFP their original photos and the characters in "The Peach Blossom Hairpin", which bore a strong resemblance.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
All this competence puts us in a strange state — a suspenseful trance — in which you feel on edge while also relaxing into the idea that the characters have things under control.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
The camera is almost always static; the frame is frozen in a way that virtually imprisons the characters, suggesting that their blinkered belief systems similarly constrain their thoughts and direct their deeds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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