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Argentinian documentary filmmaker, Manuel Abramovich, awed the world through his work exploring the daily lives of normal people. Blue Boy focuses on male sex workers from Romania, based in Berlin's famous gay bar ‘Blue Boy’. Being poor, they have sold themselves to men from all over the world, regardless of their own sexual orientation. The director had recorded their experiences from them in advance, and plays back these stories to each one of them, while they sit at a bar, staring at a fixed camera. It is impossible to distinguish on screen, whether the face corresponds with the voice. Actually, there is no need to know. While each story is a personal one, it is a commonality that runs through them all. There must be a reason the director intentionally separated their faces and voices. Listening to each others' stories and overlapping memories, emotions gradually intensify on their faces. The mirroring lives of immigrants thicken to tell a forlorn chronicle. (KIM Kyung-tae)