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"Mostly, we joke and laugh... we have this joke about the war: whoever dies first is the loser."

Lead single Berghain riffs on Verdi's Dies Irae, the strings played with serrated knives as a German chorus chants about fear and anger, until Bjork arrives to inform everyone, "the only way to save us is through divine intervention".

Then, with no warning, Amélie’s grandmother dies, and directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang introduce a layer of transience that subtly begins to play with Amélie’s idea that everything is predetermined.

When a person dies, there are no other monthly benefits to claim under Social Security except for survivor benefits.

“It’s very easy. Find a guy serving on the front, and when he dies you get eight million,” Orlova said in the podcast.