When Xiao Wu was screened, those reporters had looked down upon the film immensely.
Though their write-ups stopped short of outright malicious mockery, they had done their absolute best to ignore the film's very existence. But the infuriating part was that this exact film, which they had so thoroughly disdained, went on to bag two trophies. This was nothing like Stanley Kwan’s accolades, which barely counted as consolation prizes; these were hard-earned, genuine honors.
Yet what kind of people were media reporters?
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