"Elio" and What Could Have Been
Elio could be seen as fantastic piece of representation, showing lonely children who feel ostracized that they are not alone. That is, unless you look behind the curtain.

To respect the fasting month, Dani (18) refrained from eating out by packing food from a warteg. However, two of his boarding house friends accused Dani of having no empathy and took his packet of food. He was forced to endure his hunger in his boarding room, until finally Dani could not endure the hunger and he returned to the warteg. At the warteg, she met her two boarding house friends who had cornered Dani while she was eating at noon.
Elio could be seen as fantastic piece of representation, showing lonely children who feel ostracized that they are not alone. That is, unless you look behind the curtain.
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