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true love should not always win

How Dakota Johnson’s new film proves the sexism and irrationality of “true love always wins.”

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Jun 27, 2025
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I recently watched Dakota Johnson's new film, Materialists. In it she plays Lucy, a New York matchmaker in her early 30s who, like her clients, is looking for love. Unlike her clients, Lucy isn’t asking for much. All she wants in marriage is money, and lots of it.

Lucy doesn't want to have a marriage like her parents. She watched them fight about finance…

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