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Speaker 1: Great perflick with Benoshe good mining. Ben. You know I

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Speaker 1: love a good documentary. Alice, You're gonna last as a

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Speaker 1: decent one. Oh my gosh, this is not just a

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Speaker 1: great documentary. This is one of the best films I've

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Speaker 1: seen this year. And it is wild. It is You

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Speaker 1: will watch this film and you'll go, I can't believe

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Speaker 1: this is a documentary. This is too dramatic. These are

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Speaker 1: surely paid actors. So it's a Chinese made documentary from

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Speaker 1: a Hong Kong filmmaker, Elizabeth Low, And it's really a

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Speaker 1: story about marriage and infidelity, but the drama is just

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Speaker 1: off the hook. So imagine in Australia, if you had

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Speaker 1: a friends or a married couple the husband is busted

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Speaker 1: cheating with a mistress. Like generally in Australia, you'd have

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Speaker 1: a couple of options. You probably separate, have a divorce,

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Speaker 1: or you know, maybe you come to some kind of

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Speaker 1: arrangement and you stay in the marriage. But that's basically it.

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Speaker 1: If you're in China, you've got another option. You can

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Speaker 1: hire somebody called a mistress dispeller, which is the name

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Speaker 1: of this documentary, and just the name suggests you're dispelling

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Speaker 1: the mistress, you're making her disappear, but not like in

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Speaker 1: the mafia swim with the fishes kind of disappear. We're

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Speaker 1: working about. We're talking about like a sort of a

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Speaker 1: relationship counselor who works with the marriage coupler, the marriage

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Speaker 1: couple and the mistress to make everybody happy and make

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Speaker 1: the mistress kind of go away and feel good about

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Speaker 1: herself and make the and save the marriage, negotiate everybody

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Speaker 1: were and this is a growing industry in China, and

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Speaker 1: this documentary maker we'll spent three years trying to find

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Speaker 1: people who are willing to be on camera because it's

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Speaker 1: pretty sensitive stuff. That explains how they're all on camera, yep.

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Speaker 1: And so it has found a mistress dispeller, one of

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Speaker 1: the leading ones in China deals with hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 1: of couples every year, travels all around mainland China doing it,

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Speaker 1: gets paid, you know, like a big money to do so.

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Speaker 1: And so this this woman, mister and missus Lee, Mister

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Speaker 1: Lee was busted having an affair with with a young

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Speaker 1: woman named Faife who worked in a frozen food factory.

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Speaker 1: Okay way, and so she was busted. She busted him

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Speaker 1: gets in teacher Yang, sorry, Teacher Wang. The mistress Dispeller

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Speaker 1: who sits down with the husband, he spills his guts. Yeah, look,

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Speaker 1: I was having an affair like mere Kopper, but I

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Speaker 1: don't really want to end my marriage because you know,

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Speaker 1: I really love missus Lee, but I also like the mistress.

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Speaker 1: So I'm in a bit of a bind here. And

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Speaker 1: so the mistress dispeller goes, okay, well, let me sit

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Speaker 1: down with the mistress and finds out what's going on

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Speaker 1: with the mistress. But the way that she does it

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Speaker 1: is she totally pretends, like pretends to be the wife's

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Speaker 1: friend when she's sitting down with the husband having a

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Speaker 1: few drinks, then pretends to be the husband's cousin when

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Speaker 1: she sits down with the mistress. Oh, professional, they don't

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Speaker 1: know what's going on, and all of these people are

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Speaker 1: being filmed doing it, And so that Elizabeth Lowe, when

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Speaker 1: she was making this film, shot at all, but didn't

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Speaker 1: ever know that it would be released until these people

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Speaker 1: saw the final cut and signed off on it. So

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Speaker 1: she spent years making this movie of knowing if anyone

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Speaker 1: would ever see it. But in the end, amazingly these

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Speaker 1: people agreed to have it all captured on film and

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Speaker 1: released to the public on the condition that was never

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Speaker 1: screened in China. Yes, right, so a lot of editing

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Speaker 1: in it, but not a lot of script writing. No

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Speaker 1: script writing. And some scenes you will watch this and

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Speaker 1: just frequently through the film just go, I can't believe this.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe this is a doctor entry. It's on

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Speaker 1: a lunar. It is you're not going to find it.

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Speaker 1: And it's also beautiful to watch, gorgeous cinematography, really really interesting,

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Speaker 1: and even though it might seem like a niche story,

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Speaker 1: This is actually very universal. It tells you something about

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Speaker 1: the film condition about relationships, because it's so rare that

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Speaker 1: you would have people speaking so openly about things that

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Speaker 1: are so personal and painful. Like the film opens with

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Speaker 1: missus Lee, the woman who is cheated on. She's sitting

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Speaker 1: there getting a haircut. There's a solitary tear running down

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Speaker 1: her cheek and this close up of her face it

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Speaker 1: makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Incredible.

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Speaker 1: All right, what do you even Chinese movies have playoff music?

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Speaker 1: I'm giving this one four and a half, absolutely recommended,

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Speaker 1: must see, must see film. It sounds very very different.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's wild, absolutely wild.