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The Young Woman is studying virology or gerontology or cinema, or actually shes a poet or a painter.
Jakes stolid substance never seems in doubt.
Over dinner, the Young Woman talks art with Jakes parents.
But the father doesnt have any patience for this sort of subtext.
How can a picture of a field be sad without a sad person looking sad in the field?
he asks, refusing her requests that he think of himself as the person looking.
Its a rejection that could just as well be applied to the impressive but airless movie hes appearing in.
