You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Luce.

When I first met my mother, she couldn't pronounce my name.

My father suggested that they renamed me.

They picked Luce, which means light.

If you Googled Model student, Luce Edgar's picture would come up on the computer.

Given Luce's background, you and Peter must have faced quite a few challenges,

the language barrier, the culture shock.

I mean, you don't pull a kid out of a war zone and have him turn out like Luce without a lot of help.

Which is why this is so difficult?

Difficult?

Last week, he wrote a paper in which he argued that violence was a necessary cleansing force.

You teach this?

I don't.

So what?

Something's going on and I want to be in front of it.

She thinks she would host her boy, black kid who overcame his tragic past.

You really don't like her, do you?

Okay. What about a responsibility to tell the truth?

What?

Miss!

Go!

You don't conform to what she wants and suddenly you're the enemy.

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