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Do You Understand the Words That Are Comin' Out of My Mouth

It is a cackle to watch my mum and my brother's girlfriend, Inna, in conversation. My mum is Vietnamese. Inna is Russian. And neither of them can understand the other's accent. They both look to me in earnest. Sometimes I don't even understand. 

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This clip. They used to air the film on TV all the time growing up. Saturday Night Movie, they used to call it, I think. We would gather in the living room after dusk and watch as a family because it was New Zealand and there was nothing else to do. Some of my favourite moments.