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While some actors may feel burdened by their perpetual association with one successful project and want to leave it behind, Fischer has never felt such ambivalence.

But even this ambivalence could deter protest activity or indeed any politically disfavored speech.

Their relationship deepens over the course of the film, culminating in a final scene that ends their story with a melancholy ambivalence.

And with an extraordinary inner strength, but a great ambivalence as well.”

Because women are often marginalized or excluded from dominant cultural narratives, irony provides us a means to subvert them and a pressure-release valve for our ambivalence about whether transformative social change is possible.