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The narrator's father gave him the gift of positivity.
“This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.”
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The moody, evocative opening of the film, with a shadowy character struggling through dense fog, provides a sharp contrast to the cheerful, boisterous scene that follows, which depicts Guido and Ferruccio barreling down a country road in an...
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