La Chinoise
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:05:02
with a wide and precise mouth,
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not persuasive but loyal.
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A kind forehead
willingly bending in silence.

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In all that,
:05:14
agreement can only be guessed.
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Not in pain or success...
:05:20
as if from a scattered past,
something serious appeared.

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An actor?
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It's hard to say.
:05:38
Yes, yes, I’m an actor.
:05:45
I’ll show you something.
It's an idea of what theatre is.

:05:51
Young Chinese students
demonstrated in Moscow

:05:55
and of course the Russian police
beat them up.

:05:59
The next day, in protest,
:06:01
the Chinese met in front of
their embassy

:06:04
with all the Western reporters.
:06:08
Guys from Life,
France Soir and so on.

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And a student came up,
:06:16
his face covered with bandages
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and started yelling.
:06:22
Look what they did to me.
:06:24
Look what
the dirty revisionists did.

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So the reporters rushed over
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and began taking photos
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as he removed the bandages.
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They expected a cut face,
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covered with blood or something.
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And he carefully removed
his bandages

:06:44
as they took pictures.
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When they were all off,
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they realised his face was alright.
:06:52
So the reporters began yelling,
:06:55
This Chinaman's a fake.
:06:57
He's a clown, what is this?
:06:59
But they hadn't understood.

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