Today I Learned:

The German phrase for "based on the novel X by Y", in the context of a film, is "Ein Palimpsest von Y's X"

I love the word palimpsest. I love it even more when I know it's apparently used in *conversational* German.

(My German is not great. It's possible the film actually is saying "we scraped this novel empty and rewrote it" instead of "based on", but generally then they wouldn't credit it?)

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West Virginian (white) murders new neighbours (black) without warning and without calling the cops, because he assumes they must be breaking into the place. Cabell County Sheriff insists there's no reason to even remotely consider that race might have been a factor in his motive.