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the meaning of style features a group of anti-fascist Malay skinheads who appear to transcend reality and representation, circulating between the imaginative and literal spaces of cinema. Filmed in Penang, Malaysia, the skinheads are part of a subculture that formed in the 1990s. They have all the visual cues: shaved heads, sporting work shirts, bomber jackets, suspenders, jeans, leather boots, tailor-made pants and sweaters. But they lack the aggression that has come to define skinheads. In a series of quickly changing scenes set in an Indian Tamil cinema, a Chinese Buddhist temple, and a …