I don't understand women (all my ex-girlfriends agree on this) but I found it rather unrealistic that Roberta was in the mood for seduction within three days after the death of her husband, whom she adored and admired.
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My thought is that maybe the adoration/admiration she had for him was because of his political agenda and not because she was in love.
That was my perception, I think she was drawn to that part of him and it wasn't an especially romantic relationship.
Given that it wouldn't have been such a big stretch to get interested in Jack for the other reasons that women are attracted to men.
Nah. It's a valid quibble. THREE FRIGGIN' DAYS?? Come on. That's crazy. I don't care if it's Robert Redford -- it's still crazy. But the filmmakers simply had no choice, given the kind of story they were telling. And all things considered, I'd say that they did (just barely) manage to make the Redford/Olin romance make sense.
Of course it helped that one of the best screenwriters of all time, David Rayfiel, was a co-writer of the script.
But it's a valid quibble.
Still my favorite movie, though.
Valid quibble? Yes
I think it was handled well in the script though.
Like I said it didn't seem like Arturo's relationship with Bobbie was rooted in romance, it looked to me like it was two people who were drawn together by a similar political ideology.
So her falling hard for Jack (a guy she barely knows who's willing to bail her out of jail? that's pretty powerful) isn't such a big jump for me.
Maybe she was caught off guard at her attraction to Jack and decided to play it out for a little while.
I loved the chemistry between those two, they certainly weren't presented as two people who would fall for each other instantly given their opposite backgrounds.
As much as I think Lena Olin is a pretty lady, the romance angle was hanging by a string. I like this film, but I like the gambling/overthrow portion of the story more.
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