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Tran, meanwhile, can’t remember her character’s secret, but believes she was so repressed in the beginning of the film it was probably a secret even to herself.

They were repressed and wanting romance, and even though it’s a much different world now, I think a lot of people are feeling repressed and wanting romance.

“It’s just so emotional, and you try to repress it and try to move ahead and be thankful for what you do have,” Arline said.

If the latter is true, everything happening in the present could just be some sort of manifestation of their repressed trauma.

The UN team said "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters" had been directed by political leaders and senior security officials.