'American Fiction' Speaks Truth
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.

In the snowy countryside of northern China, Wen receives a telegram informing her that her father is dead. She travels to the city and finds he was branded a reactionary in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. She is distraught, and on the way home, she is harassed and attacked by thugs, but she stays in the home of a kind-hearted doctor.
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.
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