Do you think that makes her evil?
Or at the very least seriously wrong and out of order? Not saying that what her character did to Michael Douglas' character was in any way "right", "civilized", "excusable" even etc, and yes I am fully aware that if a man did this to a woman or even to another man (interestingly enough, at one point Michael Douglas' character even imagines a man trying to harass him in the form of Donald Sutherland's character in this movie) etc, regardless of who or what he was, it would be seen in standard black and white ways for obvious reasons too.
But do you think that her sexually harassing and assaulting him like that, refusing to take no for an answer, threatening later to kill him, accusing him of doing the same thing to her and attempting and almost succeeding in ruining his career, family life and life in general, makes her evil in any way or a villain? Or just a highly flawed character who has done the wrong thing?
Also in this film, it doesn't lead to any confrontation that involves, unlike even "Fatal Attraction" (1987) did, them fighting for their lives. She doesn't even end up getting arrested either, or institutionalized in a mental hospital. The worst thing that happens in the end is that she loses her job and Douglas' character gets back to normal. And he doesn't spend the rest of his life suffering or feeling pain and mental damage from the original act itself, so I suppose he probably DOES recover. And I suppose its a good thing that he doesn't say attack her in any way for it and just moves on like some school kids at least CAN move on when fellow kids bully them.
But other than that, what do you think? Evil or just not right and possibly somewhat forgivable too? And I don't mean JUST because she HAPPENS to be attractive, a woman, with Mr Douglas' character being "straight man" (although NO OFFENSE to anyone WHATSOEVER here, its a psychological, physiological, maybe also sexual etc human nature thing) and say not ruined for life, cheers, wrong as it was though no doubt even with those factors etc. And can you mention the "r" word to describe what she did to him, or even call it "assault" as such, including in legal AND moral AND dictionary terms? Cheers.