I recently talked to someone who’s small family business was in their 3rd generation of making these. What they said is that there was a big market in south east Asia.

Like we learned early covid, a lot of hygienic paper goods are made locally (not worth enough to ship), and they said that there just aren’t as many trees to make paper from there, so despite being very far away, this little family shop made and shipped these.

The person I talked to wasn’t involved in the business directly, so they/I might have some of that wrong but I thought that was interesting. Like I guess it’s enough to keep them in business but probably not enough to attract new comers?

The character drama with Brendan gleeson opposite Colin Farrell set in an idyllic small town in Europe that serves as a contrast to accent sparingly used violence emblamatic of violence on a much larger scale that’s hinted at but not shown featuring a mishmash of strongly acted and intriguing supporting characters?

In Bruges.