... manages to combine the right amount of humour and seriousness, creating a special balance that makes the audience burst into laughter and at times collapse in tears... But most important of all: it makes the viewer think. It contains a refreshingly moving substance that ignites the, lets say, occidental citizen's seemingly dormant critical judgment. Truth, or the search for it, has become somewhat lenient in our western society. Amongst other things, it suffers daily blows from the picky and exaggerated media. The chosen topics to publish may be in fact real, or truthful; but the media chooses what to publish and what not to, choice in which the news that sells outbalances in a significant way the news that doesn't. In other words, blood, violence, sex and any type of news that arouses the general public's emotions appear daily in the newspapers, TV shows, radio broadcasts, magazines, etc... This ...

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