Both "The Tree of Life" (2011), a magnificently transcendent view of a Texas family, and "To the Wonder, " now in theaters, which follows an unhappy couple and an anguished priest, show the consequences of even the smallest act of emotional or physical violence.

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Patty oversaw the sale of the house, at an unhappy price, to an earnest black professional couple with three-year-old twins.

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Along the way, we came across a couple of media firestorms--an idea that if women were unhappy, well, feminism was to blame.

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