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  • In the film, why does Eva lock Perón out of her room after "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"? Are we meant to assume she has no genuine feelings for him at this point (although her reaction to his arrest in "A New Argentina" suggests otherwise) and she's just playing his adoring wife for the public?
    • It's quite possible she doesn't know or believe that he might actually love her. She probably assumes she's only being used just as she's using him, as per their intentions in "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You." It's not until she's dying that she realizes that yes, the main reason why he's stuck by her all this time is because he really must love her, hence the song.
  • In "Lament", the dying Eva wonders if she would have lived longer had she chosen a quiet, obscure life. But if she was bound to get cancer, what difference would it have made whether she headed off to Buenos Aires for fame, fortune, and eventual marriage to Juan Peron, or stayed in Junin and married Pedro the tailor? A harsher, poorer life in Junin, with less access to state-of-the-art medical care, might even have worsened her health.
    • But considering that she died of cervical cancer, and Peron's first wife died of the same thing, it's possible their cancer was caused by HPV passed on to them by Peron. If that's the case, she might have lived a much longer life if she'd never gone to Buenos Aires.

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