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Review: Last Train Home – Arts & Entertainment

www.lostlaowai.com — I recently watched the Fan Lixin documentary Last Train Home, which captures the life of two migrant workers and their relationship with their two children they only see once a year after a long journey home. This is what I thought about it.

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Ryan 51 weeks 1 day ago

CityWeekend reviewed it almost a year and a half ago -- figure that was enough time to not be a dupe. :-)

chengdoo 51 weeks 1 day ago

It's called eating your own dog food. And because of that previous review we also didn't post our own rant
http://www.gochengdoo.com/en/blog/item/2142/sichuan_film_reviews_last_tr...

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