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@Aria runs with camera; in the first beat she brings her wrist up and swipes it across her cheek and eyes to clear the tears, but the rain instantly re-wets her face, the gesture futile. Her face crumples further, chin trembling, a shaky broken breath, rapid blinking against the rain, eyes glassy; the hand drops back down and she keeps running. Camera moves with her matched exactly to her pace, a three-quarter front track with organic handheld drift, holding her framed to the chest while the background streaks past. Focus holds on her face throughout. Heavy rain sheets continuously down her face and hair, never letting up, water tracking down the skin. Real-time, raw, the emotion carried in the futile wipe.