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In 1969, The April Fools, a little-known film starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve, was released. It was a simple, light movie about two people, unhappy in their own marriages, who find joy in each other and decide to run away to Paris and start life over. They were considered fools because they had decided to do something completely irrational and totally self-serving. They had always been stalwart in their devotion to their mates--reliable, prone to serve, and faithful--and now, in their thirties, they discovered that loyalty might not have been as rewarding as putting themselves first.
The movie poses the question, “Who is really the fool?” Those who indulge and take advantage or those who properly and politely hold back and become the doormat for other people, who willingly “use” the idle lives for their own gain?
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