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Choices In The Film 'All About Eve'
‘All about Eve is about choices’

All about Eve directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950 is a film about the choices that each character makes. Throughout the film, some of the characters had choices. These choices included trust and honesty. However many of the characters trusted too easily and when they realized the truth, it was too late. As one of the most manipulative character, Eve starts the story, it was Karen's choice to introduce one of Margo Channing's biggest fan to her. People make choices in life and if Karen hadn't make the choice of letting a stranger into their lives, they wouldn't have gone through all the neat tricks Eve had done to them.

Women in the theatre must sacrifice their own "human" qualities such as femininity to

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