So I just saw (for the second time) the very moving film ONE TRUE THING.
The English professor/novelist/husband/dad (played brilliantly by William Hurt) is a multi-faceted jerk. To make a long story short, his narcissism and vanity crowed out any sustained sense of personal responsibility to those he loves. He knows, when he’s honest to himself, that his wonderful and beautiful wife (played by Meyrl Streep) is his “one true thing” (all else being vanity), but he rarely acting accordingly, even when she’s dying painfully of cancer.
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