The Chinese passenger jet which smashed into a mountain this year killing all 132 people on board was deliberately crashed by the pilot or an intruder, US investigators are alleged to have said.
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How can one artistically tackle, with a fair distance and avoiding investigation clichés (while still presenting at least its ins and outs), such a dramatic news story? Simply by starting from one’s own kitchen and the reflection of the outside within one’s coffee bowl (a beverage that will reoccur in the film), under the watchful eye of a cat in a maisonette where a black marble rolls and falls from a table – a cruel metaphor for Flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, which crashed “we don’t know yet where, but not far.” And by keeping in mind that “when we talk about one death, there’s always another one hiding behind it.”
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