Jensen’s first line of the scene – ‘I caught you’ – is, like so many in the film, loaded. Boulay is reluctant to let her read the contents of the envelope and secretes it in his back pocket. Donna flirtatiously retrieves the item and opens it. It’s a birthday card. But when she reads the message contained within, her face crumples, like a drained can of Fanta under a Cuban heel. Barreto resists the temptation to cut to one of his statement insert shots, and instead lets this moment play on Paltrow’s harrowed face. Tommy Boulay is breaking up with Donna Jensen. Donna can’t believe that Boulay
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