It's a well-made film, but, yeah, as a female viewer I definitely had my issues with it. I mean, come on---what women stands buck naked in front of the window in broad daylight for no reason at all? And it was like the movie was saying that it was okay for her to be sexually assaulted by that guy because he was her ex-boyfriend, as if that was supposed to make it alright. That's just plain fckd up, and sexist as hell. I mean, the book and the script were written by men who clearly had no clue about how horrible rape is to women in real life. The scene came off like some old macho male fantasy about the subject, and it was disgusting,frankly. The director,Peckinpah, was known to be a real d*** to the women in his life, so it's no surprise that he treated his female characters like s*** in his films, and have them do things which logically made no damn sense.
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