While discussions raged online, television stations also began reporting that four films had been shortlisted for this year's Cannes Film Festival, though without giving special focus to Missing One in Destiny, merely mentioning in passing that it was the debut feature film of director Han Jie.
For a state-affiliated institution like a television station, a film like Missing One in Destiny was difficult to cover extensively. To do so otherwise would implicitly suggest there were flaws in the film censorship system, making top directors too afraid to make movies.
If the television stations found it difficult to report on, the "rebellious child" of the Southern media group dared to—and indeed covered it extensively.
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