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Raquel and the Stockholm syndrome. Spoilers


The good stuff is the action scenes and the last gunfight was pretty good.

The bad is the stupid plot and characters. Raquel is a tough woman and then she becomes this fragile person developing a love interest with her kidnapper and her husbands murderer? Come on.

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I agree. I can't imagine what she would see in the scruffy unwashed guy who dragged her out of her home.
Another thing that bothered me was that few women in the era of this movie would have worn that ratted hairstyle that wasn't popularized until the 1960s and resurrected in the 1980s

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as for the hairstyles, one can always assume that there are problems making historical period films accurately - which of course is true.

In historical period films the characters and the actors portraying them are different, so the characters wore hairstyles which they liked and were fashionable in their own eras and the actors often couldn't be forced to wear the goofy hairstyles of past centuries, insisting that they instead wear the goofy hair styles of their own era.

One can assume or pretend that a historical fiction movie like a western is a recreation of actual historical facts, but the historical characters don't look like the actors who portray them, and the costumes and hairstyles of the movies are often anachronistic.

So one can pretend that the story is true but the visuals are an inaccurate modern recreation.

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