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Beside its adequate home-video quality of the visual representation on the cruel family story, on top of the screaming off-screen sound that haunts all over the film's stage, the most impressive matter in "Happy Bus Day" is its alternative discourse that turns over the power relationship between the violence and its victim. The film's narrative emphasizes more on the active motivations and the tensions between different characters of the big family, where it therefore seemed not to be a place of oppression but a place with true agency of humanity that causes all the confrontation and violence.

Challenging the modernity discourse that used to deprive the power of victims by taking them over with the focus on suffering experience only, this film's narrative arrangement breaks up the absolute connection among the violence, the wound, and the victim with strong subjectivity of each character. Even though the sufferings as victims over violence can be an undeniable part of the story, the key of the film is still different characters' agency and the interactive complex among them all. With the deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept about violence, "Happy Bus Day" reaches into the questioning on the birth and the death of victimization, so as it creates the healing story of touching cruelty.