One element, however, that is not a part of farce, is breaking the fourth wall.

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It was when they're speaking to camera and breaking the fourth wall.

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Over appetizers her friends have analyzed how Kevin Spacey's character in Netflix's "House of Cards" adapts the Brechtian strategy of breaking the "fourth wall" speaking to the audience directly as if from a three-walled stage.

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