Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster.
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The cuirass, a piece of armor consisting of a breastplate and backplate fastened together, was inspired by another set piece in the film — a mystical siren painted on a ship.
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