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For Saura, this feels like a routine, albeit a skilled one. Thinking about it, Saura and Zhang Yimou have many similarities: prolific output, involvement in the Olympics, group exercises, bold color palettes, traditional female roles... But that "fear, anxiety, history will always come to light" passage, someone like Zhang Yimou, as a 'national teacher,' couldn't film that... (We only have "you did something to me"). Furthermore, creative anxiety is projected through the film-within-a-film format, while also serving as a form of catharsis. Screening this film at the Wanping Theater is perfect. It's hard to describe the impact of the camera gradually pushing toward the silhouette of the two dancers against the sunrise backdrop (the high-contrast, slightly detail-lacking film becomes a style). Saura's approach of exposing the camera through mirrors is...

I've been putting this off for almost a month, and frankly, you've been a real letdown. (This is a more impactful and common way to express the sentiment in English)

A play within a play, a dance within a dream - with dance as the language of desire, and drama as a condensed version of life itself. The recurring presence of cameras throughout provides clues and layers to the narrative. Otherwise, by the end, it's hard to tell where the performance ends and reality begins, or which is imitating the other.

A masterpiece! Saura's structure is just brilliant. To be able to tap into the dark history of military regimes prevalent in the Spanish-speaking world is a stroke of genius. The stage design is absolutely dazzling. However, a tango dance drama with this kind of structure can probably only be truly expressed through film; a stage performance would definitely fall short. Also, did the emergence of people from the turn of the century in that final, grand sequence perhaps inspire Angelopoulos's *The Weeping Meadow*?

In the back left of the ground floor of the Grand Theater, a cellphone suddenly rang. On screen, the male lead's expression turned serious as he slowly looked in that direction, a startling and comedic fourth-wall-breaking moment.

Tango & Cash seems to have the perfect blend of action and humor as it explores the chaotic dynamics between two cops and their ultimate showdown with a crime lord. A fun yet tense ride that keeps you guessing till the end!