...In the popular 1980’s movie Say Anything..., Diane Court is told that her father is a crook. It is explained to her that her father, (who runs a Nursing Home) steals cash and other valuables from the elderly patients who have recently passed away. Upon hearing the news, Diane is, at first, in denial. She outright refuses the claim that her father could be involved in anything underhanded, even when she knows deep down that he fits the ‘portfolio’ described by the FBI agent who broke the news to her. When she returns home afterwards, she starts looking through all her fathers things, trying to find proof (or lack thereof) that her father is guilty. She is an intelligent girl, and she cannot just believe something outright, even if she wants it so much to be true. After searching through some drawers, etc. she stops herself and says that it’s pointless to look for anything because there is nothing to be found. She wants so much to be able to trust her father, whom she picked to live with over her mother during their divorce a few years previous. She suppresses her first instincts of doubt at his innocence, and tries very hard to convince herself that none of it is true. However, she eventually decides to look in one more place before deciding what to believe. Upon looking in a locked chest, she finds wads of cash, piled high. It is this moment that she realizes, despite trying desperately to convince herself otherwise, that her father is a criminal...
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