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Expats Recap: 2014
The show expands its scope and perspective in a powerful feature-length entry.
While the show doesn’t take the time to explore the exact politics of the movement — which grew in response to China’s increased interference in Hong Kong elections — “Central” makes the stakes and potential dangers largely clear through its interpersonal drama and aesthetic approach. Unfortunately, Olivia hasn’t been a big enough part of the show thus far to make her story’s arrival feel like a much-needed payoff, but Chan delivers wonderfully pained and resilient work as a woman on the verge of leaving her husband but eventually decides to stay if only to keep up appearances — a dilemma symbolized by the black tarp she uses to conceal the leakage in her ceiling. • The buzz and hum of this crowded Western Union scene is immediately contrasted with the haunting silence in Clarke’s living room, as he admits to Alan — in a difficult close up that looks down at him, making him feel small and vulnerable — that he wished, on some level, that the body found by the police had been Gus, as though even the most painful closure would release him from his anguish.
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