When I ran across the movie, I found that I can't understand it.
what does "how much like them we are" mean?
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Sign up to join this communityIt's a sad way of admitting "We are quite similar to them.", most likely spoken after some kind of difficult or unfair situation with "them".
In:
How much like them we are.
the definition of how is:
- used in exclamations to emphasize extent ⇒ how happy I was!
It is emphasizing the amount of similarity between "we" and "them".