The moralizing aside, Lee treats the audience to a film full of nostalgia and symbolism.

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"The film went beyond nostalgia, " he said.

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Nostalgia for cultural innocence is a pretty thin emotion to base a feature film on.

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The film may be lightweight as history, but it offers a useful counterweight to the very nostalgia it trades on.

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