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If anyone at Michelle Williams' school had seen the film, and particularly her character, they might have had a different reaction. After all, hers was a character with whom they might have sympathized: a straight woman who just wanted to raise a family and for whom her husband's love affair with another man was more devastating than an affair with a woman could possibly have been. She played that part wonderfully, bringing home the point that what the men did had consequences for the women they kept in the dark.
But, then, they probably weren't interested in thinking too hard about the human issues...
