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The sisters laugh raucously, but there's an undercurrent of pain.

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The Wolf of Wall Street actor explained that while he doesn't feel like there's a central message to the film, "there's an interesting undercurrent about extremism".

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With its Baroque intonations, the piano interlude participates in establishing the track’s nostalgic undercurrents.

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“All families are concerned with what happens next,” Fellowes says of the story’s thematic undercurrent.

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There is, at all times, a prominent undercurrent of confidence that keeps “Caught Stealing” humming in neutral, ready to rev its engines and blast off again.

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