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Art student Will meets introvert Richard, whose terrifying works of art begin to have a deeply disturbing effect on Will's sense of reality.

Stars: Ben Barnes, Crispin Glover, Oriana Leman

Director(s): Keith Thomas

Writer(s): H.P. Lovecraft, Lee Patterson, Guillermo del Toro

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00:00:10I paint what I see is a painter's maximum and one that reveals to us the
00:00:16many layers of our world. Because behind everything beautiful lies the dark.
00:00:36Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the horror? We ascribe these visions to a feverish
00:00:43imagination, a whim, a folly. But what if they are not? What if they are a careful record, a warning,
00:00:53or a family album?
00:00:54Our tale tonight is Big Man's model and its director, Keith Thomas.
00:02:16How much longer must it keep my neck like this?
00:02:19Can't rush perfection. Then you wouldn't want to end up with one hill bigger than the other.
00:02:28You wouldn't dare.
00:02:35I thought you gave the girl the morning off.
00:02:37Rebecca!
00:02:40Don't you dare.
00:02:43Rebecca, where are you?
00:02:45Up here, Papa!
00:02:46Bye.
00:02:47Bye!
00:02:52Bye.
00:02:59Bye.
00:03:03Bye.
00:03:07Bye.
00:03:32Thank God, save me from these Philistines.
00:03:35Oh, come now.
00:03:37We were just discussing the Impressionists.
00:03:39Smithfield here was busy railing against Cezanne.
00:03:41All I said is I don't see what the fuss is about.
00:03:44My father saw his exhibition in Paris two summers ago.
00:03:46He said it was rotten.
00:03:49Do you see what I'm dealing with?
00:03:52Rotten?
00:04:03Ladies and gentlemen, you are on my time now.
00:04:10Now, before we begin, I have some announcements.
00:04:13The deadline for this year's Student Art Prize approaches.
00:04:19For those of you unaware of its importance,
00:04:21the work judged to be the best by the committee
00:04:24will be put on display at Arkham Gallery
00:04:29to be seen by critics and patrons alike.
00:04:33Well, this kind of opportunity can be the making of a young artist,
00:04:39as I am sure last year's winner can attest, Mr. Thurber.
00:04:45Quite, sir.
00:04:51Also, starting today, we have a new addition to our class,
00:04:56Mr. Pickman, if you'll find an empty space.
00:05:23If you are all ready,
00:05:28Our 15 minutes begins now.
00:05:46Draw what you see.
00:05:48Draw what you see.
00:05:56Be aware of the empty space near the bicep.
00:06:03Remember your basic shapes.
00:06:09Construct.
00:06:10Don't shave.
00:06:13Remember the neck is a limb.
00:06:24Four minutes remaining.
00:07:13My time, Mr. Thurber.
00:07:16Or have we finished already?
00:07:32I just fail to see what's so interesting about them.
00:07:36That's because you lack imagination.
00:07:38That's why Thurber here keeps taking your money at cards.
00:07:44Full house.
00:07:47I'd say you fellas could use a little of the new kid's imagination.
00:07:51New kid?
00:07:52Pickman?
00:07:53That guy's got to be at least 80 years old.
00:07:56And from what I hear, he's a wet fish.
00:07:59Old New England money.
00:08:00Not that you'd be able to tell.
00:08:02I heard his mother's from Arkham.
00:08:04A friend has it.
00:08:06She died of a grisly suicide when he was a boy.
00:08:09His father went mad shortly after.
00:08:13Thanks to his inheritance, he's been rambling around Europe for the past decade.
00:08:21Well, if his piece today was any indication, he won't make it a Miskatonic.
00:08:25I mean, the entire point of the class is to draw what you see, not rotting flesh.
00:08:30Perhaps that is what he saw.
00:08:31Well, the man does draw in the cemetery.
00:08:45Early in the evening to be grave robbing.
00:08:49It's Pickman, right?
00:08:53Richard.
00:08:55Well, Dickie.
00:09:01What do you have there?
00:09:07Oh, I think the rats got to.
00:09:10Well, something certainly did.
00:09:15Oof.
00:09:20So, you do this kind of thing a lot?
00:09:24Haunt cemeteries in the dead of night?
00:09:27Because your imagination is...
00:09:33I saw the piece you did in Bosworth's class.
00:09:38You're very good.
00:09:40Oh, I'm not sure he'd agree.
00:09:42Well, if there's one thing Bosworth can't abide in his students, it's talent.
00:09:47Seems to like you're right.
00:09:54You thinking about entering the art prize?
00:09:57You, uh, you really should.
00:09:59It's, uh, quite the opportunity.
00:10:03Well, I'm not very interested in prizes.
00:10:08Then what are you interested in, Vicky?
00:10:36Please, uh...
00:10:42Powerful.
00:10:46The darkness, the ugliness, the corruption.
00:10:54Suffering is living.
00:10:57We cannot let sympathy or altruism shield us from finding the truths of this world.
00:11:10Oh, come on now. I'll keep it a secret.
00:11:16Where does one find these, uh, elusive truths?
00:11:34Where fear lives.
00:11:37Oh, come on now.
00:11:40Oh, come on now.
00:11:45Oh, come on now.
00:12:12Ah, I see you tardy as usual.
00:12:15What, you're not submitting?
00:12:18I decided to give the rest of you guys a chance to impress.
00:12:23So how goes it?
00:12:24Oh, brutally, of course.
00:12:27Smithfield is proclaiming he has it in the bag.
00:12:31Any sign of Pickman?
00:12:33He's in with them now.
00:13:06Dickie?
00:13:11The wrong audience for my wake.
00:13:16I'm sorry.
00:13:17But I'm beginning to doubt these people truly have anything to teach.
00:13:27We have a sort of a ritual, me and some of the others after a brutal critique.
00:13:34A little fun, would you like to join us?
00:13:39I'd like to see my paintings.
00:13:42I would.
00:13:46I would.
00:14:15You, uh...
00:14:17You never showed these.
00:14:27Ah, come.
00:14:29This works a little stronger than what you've seen.
00:14:34My family had been in New England for generations
00:14:38since we fought a witch trials.
00:14:41My mother told me stories as a boy.
00:14:46Family stories.
00:14:48My great-grandmother's great-grandmother, Lavinia.
00:14:54She was branded a hex.
00:14:58A sorceress.
00:15:01Binded the stake.
00:15:11The family gossip claims Lavinia killed her husband during a right
00:15:18and saved his still, warm flesh to members of her coven.
00:15:35Sometimes...
00:15:35No, he'd wake in the night.
00:15:41But he'd get him to the floor.
00:15:46Sounds of that party.
00:15:54Do you hear them?
00:15:59Do you hear them well?
00:16:01What?
00:16:01Benitez, anyway, it's my kin.
00:16:04No, he's not.
00:16:07Yeah.
00:16:16What?
00:16:20Thanks.
00:16:24Oh, my God.
00:16:27Oh, my God.
00:16:30Yeah.
00:16:30Let's go.
00:17:02Let's go.
00:17:30Let's go.
00:18:30Let's go.
00:18:44Party's almost over.
00:18:45I know.
00:18:46I'm sorry.
00:18:48I'm here now.
00:18:49Everything okay?
00:18:50Of course.
00:18:51Why?
00:18:52Whiskey?
00:18:53Whenever you go.
00:18:58What?
00:18:58What?
00:18:58I'm just getting into the swing of it.
00:19:00Come.
00:19:01We've been waiting.
00:19:05Will, this is my aunt, Mrs. Creighton.
00:19:07Aunt Lizzie.
00:19:08This is my friend, William Thurber.
00:19:12My dear niece, Rebecca swears you're quite the artist.
00:19:17Would you excuse me for a moment?
00:19:18I'm just going to go find Papa.
00:19:20Of course.
00:19:21She's a remarkable young woman.
00:19:24So, William, tell me about your art.
00:19:28Rebecca says you specialize in portraits, which I have to adore.
00:19:32I don't want to be making a portrait in my...
00:19:37Are you all right?
00:19:44Excuse me.
00:19:56Will?
00:20:02I'd like you to meet my father, Charles.
00:20:05Hello, William.
00:20:06Pleasure to meet you.
00:20:32I'd like you to meet my father, Charles.
00:20:46I'd like you to meet my father.
00:20:48That woman.
00:20:49The woman with you, with your father.
00:20:52She...
00:20:55No, see.
00:20:57She's not...
00:21:09How do...
00:21:12What is happening?
00:21:15To me, last night, the...
00:21:17The painting...
00:21:27I'm sorry.
00:21:28I'm...
00:21:29I'm so sorry.
00:21:36Are you?
00:21:37I mean...
00:21:38You know how important this was to me.
00:21:41You show up drunk.
00:21:42I'm not...
00:21:43That's my father.
00:21:44That's my father.
00:21:47I know.
00:21:49You should go.
00:21:51Please.
00:21:52Please.
00:21:53Please don't.
00:21:58This is such a mistake.
00:22:02I don't even recognize you anymore.
00:22:18Dikki.
00:22:23Dikki!
00:22:24Dikki!
00:23:25I think people are rather tired of that crazy stuff.
00:23:27What people is that?
00:23:30You can't just decry the entire modernist movement as worthless.
00:23:34Samuel's work, perhaps.
00:23:37Tell me, what does our resident tastemaker think?
00:23:47I think the two of you enjoy your arguments even more than your art.
00:23:52And you're both right.
00:23:56Well, tradition is important.
00:24:00It endures.
00:24:02But what is art in this modern world without truth?
00:24:07A little risk.
00:24:11Who's this?
00:24:14Grant.
00:24:15What is me?
00:24:17He doesn't have a pen.
00:24:21I think we need to give him a pen.
00:24:25What should we call him?
00:24:27I don't know.
00:24:30And this one, who's this?
00:24:32He's Mr. Greenmouth.
00:24:36Mr. Greenmouth?
00:24:38Why is he Mr. Greenmouth?
00:24:40That's why I drew him with a green mouth.
00:24:42Someone's up awfully late this evening.
00:24:44Papa!
00:24:48He wanted to show you his pictures.
00:24:50Did he?
00:24:53Like this.
00:24:55Very interesting use of color.
00:24:58Tell you what, I will take all these to my office so I can see them every day.
00:25:03Right?
00:25:03Mm-hmm.
00:25:04Mm-hmm.
00:25:06Time for bed.
00:25:07Go brush your teeth.
00:25:09Papa will tuck you in.
00:25:11Good boy.
00:25:30Are you tired?
00:25:33Exhausted.
00:25:36How exhausted?
00:25:50Don't worry.
00:25:52I'll be quick.
00:26:04Don't worry.
00:26:09I'll be quick.
00:26:15Wow
00:26:48Excuse me. Hello. Hey
00:27:16Oh
00:27:45Oh
00:27:48Oh
00:27:50Yeah
00:27:57Oh
00:27:58Oh
00:27:59Oh
00:28:24Oh
00:28:26Hmm
00:28:33Ah
00:28:50Oh
00:29:05Oh
00:29:06Oh
00:29:06Oh
00:29:08Oh
00:29:09Oh
00:29:09Oh
00:29:11Oh
00:29:12Oh
00:29:12Oh
00:29:21Oh
00:29:23Oh
00:29:23Oh
00:29:24Oh
00:29:25Oh
00:29:33Oh
00:29:35Oh
00:29:43Will?
00:29:45Will?
00:29:53What's the matter?
00:29:55Nothing. Nothing sorry just couldn't sleep
00:30:03You want some tea?
00:30:04Sure
00:30:06Sure
00:30:06Sure thank you
00:30:15Sweetheart
00:30:16You didn't mean to let the sentence
00:30:20The man said you know him
00:30:22His name is Pickman
00:30:24He's back in town again
00:30:49Mr. Thurber
00:30:51You're in early?
00:30:54This is to be returned
00:30:55This is to be returned to the artist along with the check
00:30:57If I could go on today
00:30:59Of course. Is there an address?
00:31:00Just get it done
00:31:06Please
00:31:16Thurber
00:31:16Thurber my boy you look tired
00:31:19My uh
00:31:20My son
00:31:21He uh he isn't sleeping much
00:31:24Uh
00:31:26Children
00:31:29Who are we waiting on?
00:31:31Um
00:31:34Apologies
00:31:36Yes
00:31:36Yes let's begin shall we?
00:31:38I call the committee to order
00:31:39Now we have a few items to get through today
00:31:43But first Joe
00:31:45You look positively like the cat that ate the canary
00:31:48Would you care to enlighten us?
00:31:52I've invited a special guest to join us
00:31:55I'd like the group to consider his work for this year's exhibition
00:31:58Well now I'm curious
00:32:02Gentlemen
00:32:03This is Richard Upton Pickman
00:32:08Richard and I were at Miskatonic together
00:32:10You remember William Thurber of course
00:32:13Ah
00:32:14Of course
00:32:17Well
00:32:17Richard was a startling talent even then
00:32:20And unlike the rest of us
00:32:22Only seems to have gotten better with age
00:32:25Now I'm aware it's out of the ordinary
00:32:27But I've asked for him to bring along a few paintings
00:32:32If my fellow committee members will indulge me
00:32:35I'll ask for you to head along through to the gallery for a viewing
00:32:41I trust you'll find it worth your while
00:32:45I suppose we can play along
00:32:48Dr. Reed
00:32:48Thurber, you'll get your turn
00:32:59Joe, Joe
00:33:00This is not a good idea
00:33:03Are you afraid of a little competition Thurber?
00:33:05I know Pickman
00:33:06I know his work
00:33:07You can't show it in an exhibition
00:33:11Funny, I never thought of you as a bad sport
00:33:15Suffering from the rest of the world
00:33:43Suffering from the rest of the world
00:33:43I know
00:34:06Will?
00:34:08Will?
00:34:24Where have you been?
00:34:28There are some things I don't want to talk to you about.
00:34:31But I have a monstrous headache, so...
00:34:33We have a guest.
00:34:56I hope you don't mind my dropping in.
00:34:59It's my business...
00:35:02To catch the unatones of the soul.
00:35:08You won't find those on artificial streets...
00:35:13On man-made lands.
00:35:16If there are any ghosts around here...
00:35:21There are tame ghosts...
00:35:23Of a salt marsh...
00:35:27And a shallow cove.
00:35:29Of...
00:35:29My art...
00:35:38Well...
00:35:42My art...
00:35:45Is about to age.
00:35:47Is about to age.
00:35:52Fascinating.
00:35:55During university...
00:35:56Will and I...
00:35:57And the Miskatonic Boys...
00:35:59Had a little...
00:36:00Spiritualism phase.
00:36:02We like to hold seances.
00:36:05We like to call up the dead.
00:36:11We were just...
00:36:13Playing games, but...
00:36:15It was very thrilling.
00:36:19It felt dangerous.
00:36:21I truly doubt that Dickie wants to hear these...
00:36:24Childish stories.
00:36:29There was one night when it wasn't a game.
00:36:37It got very quiet.
00:36:42And dark.
00:36:45I...
00:36:48Couldn't see anything anymore.
00:36:50I felt like...
00:36:53I...
00:36:53Felt like I was...
00:36:54Like I was blind.
00:36:58And...
00:36:59The others, I mean...
00:37:06I never told the others anything, but...
00:37:11I felt like...
00:37:14I felt like I was floating.
00:37:23And then...
00:37:24I've...
00:37:25Had this...
00:37:28Sweeney feeling in my head.
00:37:30It's like a...
00:37:32Sort of a...
00:37:34Buzzing.
00:37:42Yes.
00:37:46It was a thing.
00:37:48All those years ago.
00:37:50Heh heh.
00:37:55But tell me where it's tricky must be.
00:37:57So excited to debut the exhibition.
00:38:04Lord and your lovely husband, I fear.
00:38:08I worry.
00:38:10He's grown more sensitive with age.
00:38:14Well, that's a word for it.
00:38:17Well, on that note, why don't we call it a night?
00:38:23It's time for James to be put to bed.
00:38:30Come to my house.
00:38:35Seat awake.
00:38:39Perhaps you should invite Minot.
00:38:44Minot would never understand.
00:38:58Just think on it.
00:39:02Please.
00:39:10Please.
00:39:13Do thank your wife for dinner.
00:39:16And tell James I enjoyed our chat.
00:39:20He's a special boy.
00:39:22Reminds me a little of myself.
00:39:36I got him.
00:39:38I got him.
00:39:40I got him.
00:39:47I got him.
00:39:48I got him.
00:39:53I got him.
00:39:54I got him.
00:40:01I got him.
00:40:02This is the first time,
00:40:02I got him.
00:40:03I was embarrassed you were embarrassed you were fawning over him like a schoolgirl
00:40:13Richard's the only friend of yours who succeeded as an artist the way you treat him
00:40:25people are talking well at the gallery the committee
00:40:32you are acting strange it's not just with me coming home late
00:40:38you're barely home anymore and when you are home
00:40:45it's like
00:40:47I feel like I feel like you're disappearing from me
00:40:53I need to know if you're drinking again
00:41:09I have always tried to look for the joy the beauty and everything but around this man
00:41:23and his work
00:41:31the darkness has a way of catching me
00:41:37life can't always be beautiful
00:41:39and
00:41:54and
00:41:55and
00:42:15and
00:42:16and
00:42:16and
00:42:16and
00:42:16and
00:42:17and
00:42:28and
00:42:33and
00:42:34and
00:42:44and
00:42:49and
00:42:51and
00:42:51and
00:42:51and
00:42:53and
00:42:55and
00:42:56and
00:42:56and
00:42:58So I'm going to be around, I'm going to be around.
00:43:00I'm going to be prepared to eat too, mommy.
00:43:02These dogs, I'm going to be so much for the rest of my life.
00:43:05I'm going to be so excited to be ready to be alone.
00:43:43Will, this is a surprise.
00:43:45What did you say to my son?
00:43:49Answer me.
00:43:51It's the unwell?
00:43:52He woke, screaming in terror.
00:43:59I'm only going to say this once.
00:44:02You stay away from my family.
00:44:05We thought we were friends.
00:44:06Friends.
00:44:07As far as I'm concerned, the balance of our friendship is paid.
00:44:13I'm sorry you feel that way.
00:44:16But it was never about the money.
00:44:19I value your judgment.
00:44:21I always have.
00:44:23Please, Will, you come all this way.
00:44:27Oh, I know you want to see my new paintings.
00:44:31The finest are done.
00:44:33I need you to see them.
00:44:37No.
00:44:42No, Vicky.
00:44:50And if I was to agree to stay away from your family, and also to offer to pull out of
00:44:57the exhibitions and destroy my paintings, should you still think them unsuitable and stay out of your life forever?
00:45:05You would do that.
00:45:10If you come to my house, no.
00:45:34It must be shocking to see the state of things here.
00:45:44But, uh, my work, Will, it is paramount.
00:45:54Electricity went out several months back.
00:46:01This way.
00:46:15Welcome to my wake.
00:46:31Do you feel it, Will?
00:46:36The fear.
00:46:44The fear.
00:46:45Coy sit rats.
00:46:47The hills infested with them.
00:46:51The deuce knows what they eat.
00:46:55They must have run short.
00:47:00One moment.
00:47:21Oh, shit.
00:47:25No!
00:47:26I'm going to spread it.
00:47:32Get down!
00:47:54Vicky.
00:48:24Vote for him and fight for him.
00:48:45Oh, my God.
00:49:03Will.
00:49:04Somebody has to stop you, Dickie.
00:49:07If I'm the one, I have to stop you.
00:49:09Your paintings infect my mind.
00:49:11It's only art.
00:49:12No, no.
00:49:14No, Cece, I thought that it was me.
00:49:16That I was drunk or delirious.
00:49:22So shocked and broken.
00:49:24But it was these paintings.
00:49:26This whole time, it was the paintings.
00:49:28What you make it, it crawls behind the eyes.
00:49:33And it makes you crazy, Dickie, Dickie.
00:49:36It causes madness.
00:49:39It's the oil that's mad, Will.
00:49:42That's what breeds fear.
00:49:45Knowing what lurks in the darkness.
00:49:48Knowing where fear lives.
00:49:53Here, let me show you.
00:49:55Stop, stop, stop.
00:49:56Stop, please.
00:49:59Stop, Dickie.
00:50:00Dickie, you stop it.
00:50:02What are you doing?
00:50:04Dickie, I swear to God!
00:50:16Pain, what you see.
00:50:21What is familiar to you.
00:50:26These entities are real.
00:50:31Close to me.
00:50:33Family portraits.
00:50:38The paintings don't come from my head.
00:50:47They come from my wife.
00:50:53What?
00:50:56What?
00:51:11Now it's time for you to meet them.
00:51:20Time to see what awaits us all.
00:51:25In the darkness.
00:51:28DICKIE
00:51:33DICKIE
00:51:34DICKIE
00:51:37DICKIE
00:51:37DICKIE
00:51:37DICKIE, I'm.
00:51:40DICKIE
00:51:54DICKIE
00:51:56Dear God.
00:52:38Dear God.
00:52:56Dear God.
00:53:27Dear God.
00:53:27Go.
00:53:28Explore.
00:53:30I want you to be the first to see it.
00:53:33Come on.
00:53:34That's my good boy.
00:53:39Have you seen Joe?
00:53:40Who's supposed to be here this morning?
00:53:43Mr. Minot came in last night.
00:53:45I was saying he had some final adjustments to make.
00:53:49I think he's still here.
00:53:52You're sure?
00:53:53Joe.
00:54:04Joe.
00:54:19Joe.
00:54:20Joe.
00:54:25I watched that painting burn, Joe.
00:54:35Joe.
00:54:37Joe.
00:54:40Joe.
00:54:41Joe.
00:54:44It's me.
00:54:49What have you done, Joe?
00:54:50He is coming from the other side.
00:54:53It's okay.
00:54:54It's okay.
00:54:54I'm gonna...
00:54:55He is coming for the feast.
00:54:58He is coming from the darkness to show us all the beauty.
00:55:02Gabriel.
00:55:03Fear.
00:55:03Gabriel.
00:55:15You all right?
00:55:16Why don't you go see a game?
00:55:20You all right?
00:55:21Yes.
00:55:22You sure?
00:55:23Of course I'm fine.
00:55:24What...
00:55:24There's been an accident.
00:55:26It's...
00:55:26It's Joe.
00:55:27An accident?
00:55:27I need you to take James home right now.
00:55:28Good.
00:55:29And what kind of...
00:55:29Now, Rebecca.
00:55:37Joe's hurt.
00:55:38What?
00:55:40I'm gonna go get him some help.
00:55:41I want you to take all of Pickman's works out immediately.
00:55:44Do you understand?
00:55:46Take them?
00:55:47Where?
00:55:48What's happening?
00:55:49Just get them out of here.
00:55:50Destroy them.
00:55:54And...
00:55:55Gabriel.
00:56:00Do not look at them.
00:56:07You burn them!
00:56:09Joe, look away!
00:56:29I'm going to leave.
00:56:31...
00:56:32...
00:56:33...
00:56:50You know?
00:56:51I'm going to leave and get him paralyzed.
00:56:54So I'm gonna go do...
00:56:58You be practicing?
00:56:59Each one of my sweet everyone...
00:56:59See, watch GodPadir.
00:57:09It smells delicious.
00:57:16I, uh,
00:57:19I want to apologize to you, my love,
00:57:24for how I've been.
00:57:28I want you to know that it's, it's all over now.
00:57:36Everything's gonna be, it's gonna be better.
00:57:39I'm going to be better.
00:57:43I promise you.
00:57:47It's all over.
00:57:52It's all over.
00:57:55And I know where I live as well.
00:57:58What?
00:58:00Where what lives, sweetheart?
00:58:02I know where fear lives.
00:58:15No, no.
00:58:18Please, please, please, God, no, no, not, not you.
00:58:23I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
00:58:26Please, please, I, I, I, I, I tried, I tried, I tried.
00:58:36You'll spoil the meal.
00:58:38No.
00:58:55Where's James?
00:58:57Back.
00:59:02where's where's james where where is that where's our son
00:59:10soon we will feast and we'll be glorious man
00:59:21you'll see
00:59:34up
00:59:36up
00:59:37up
00:59:38up
00:59:39up
00:59:41up
01:00:02I don't know.
01:00:31Now it's time, time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:01:27Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:01:54Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:02:25Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:02:55Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:03:16Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:03:16Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
01:03:16Now it's time to see what awaits us all in the darkness.
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