一切安好#,:2022

　　A meg% alith rises from a sandy desert – or. rather, @+a scale model of such a lands cap
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ays a youn\-g fem-ale voice( while ominous string music nails:] viewers to t(he%ir seats. This opening s:!ets the stage for the narrativ [e a (-nd f[;=;igurative langu#age o*!f Rithy Panh’s^# dense mnemonic _ess),ay which uses,\\ ?stunnin;g diora;:*ma ]s to tell a tw
!enty-fi_ rst /-century dystopian $
story. After; a ;cen$:tu?ry of.  genocidal ideolo+gies and dest-ruct=i ;ve,? specie sis_m, ^ ani+mals, have enslave)d huma$`ns a@nd t#,!aken over th$,e wor:l #
d/` . I-n #\a^= ;w^`-a[$ve of hope, the_:- statues of the` past(( hav/^e\ be](e\,n remove ,(d [ b#_ ;u :
t ne@w on[es are be ;in(g %ere,cted to sup@@==press the@ will of
the %+`$pe%ople. T.(*h^@-=/is i=s \now #a :pla(-ne!:,$t  of apes, boa+rs and lions, and a -zoologic,al r e/volution is reversing an/[d rcreatin?(g /.the) atrocities of the , 20th +/[-century. As ani=:mal fig$ures watch t?#h?e /@film archives of our world, it feel%?s -/@-@as if
( Lu*$mière has been t
;ransporte\\ d int?o, a f_!ilm by -M[^éliès o-r Willis H;;. O’Brien. We are all w:)`e](
ll aware that history re]pe_:ats i$ `tsel_)#f fir$),$st %-as trage`]dy, then as a farce). The ^tim$ \*e has !n[+.o% )w c/:o`me for this farce, in: which “politic`/ al ]
la(`nguag-+(e]/ inhabits
` o ?ur dreams-  an]d cons\?;umes us”, to allow th.e p#@/ossi-+bil?=$ity o=$f $a “gra.^@ceful and tende :# r insubo:];rdin -a(tion” t%o emerge.