The movie’s ultimate insistence on emotional nobility as the defining “true thing” works to obscure the underlying structural injustices it depicts.
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One True Thing (1998)
The characters in One True Thing are supposed to be intellectuals, but they come off more like dilettantes — the kind who throw a ‘come as your favorite literary character’ party and then dress as …
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