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The World Is a Prison to Me

I find it immensely trying because her role in this is he's really nasty to her at the beginning. She's like, don't go away. You're going to go to prison. I've got a kid. We've got a disabled child. Why don't you just stay here and get a job? And then she comes back and she's like, oh, I wouldn't have it any other way. But her role in the film is I think as close as possible to say the thing which the director really believes. It's quite hard to understand what he's trying to say.

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