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What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn’t a movie. It affected real people’s lives.
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The speaker says that events in Lebanon felt like a frightening, dystopian story, but they were not fiction. The contrast with “it wasn’t a movie” stresses that real people experienced the consequences directly. The quote shifts attention away from spectacle and toward the human cost of what happened.
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