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Den eneste Ene

I’d say that “Den eneste Ene” doesn’t present an exactly ideal picture of the modern marriage. At the movie’s start, we don’t know how each of the existing relationships started out, but they’ve wound up being crummy in certain ways. Sure, each couple wants to have a child, but both seem too focused on superficial aspects of their relationships – Sonny concerned about having a real “bella” for a wife, and Lizzie controlling what sorts of things their adopted daughter will play with. Luckily, those two characters are dispensed with, more or less, so the two remaining – who have more interest in the specifics of having a family – have no problems winding up together at the end.