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An extract from the script of critically-acclaimed movie Sword and Sign:
“And there is something quite special when you see the wings of a butterfly propel it slowly toward a gleaming cut of a sword; perching quietly on a surface that could kill it, but it somehow won’t. A moment caught in the irreplicable stillness of a brook at dawn: the soldier gives it a place to stay and the butterfly gives it a moment to breathe.
I think about it sometimes, like that; an unabashed, immovable warrior, buoyed by daily regimes of strength and violence, holding the sword but merely gazing at the tip glinting with the soft lavender of a butterfly. It could cut it down, it certainly has the ability to, and the butterfly is very likely quickly on its way to death already, but it won’t.
The soldier will stare, halt, wonder, in the strange and glorious crossroads of where the sword meets the butterfly.”
Lauded by reviewers from Guardian, The New York Times, and Variety. Starring Miya Atsumu.
And coming soon to theatres near you.