Yet from Berlin to Taipei, people seem to have figured out how to make it work.

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In the nearly four-hour span of this vast Proustian memory piece, from 1991, Edward Yang meticulously delineates the anguish of young people in Taipei in 1959 and the gang violence that pervades their lives.

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The group has since swelled to 200 people across Europe, Taipei and California.

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Four days later, a somber Cheong was apologizing to the families of the 82 people who died when Flight SQ006 bound from Taipei to Los Angeles plowed into debris on an out-of-service runway and burst into flames.

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