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Portman's character going full retard


So we have this smart, young woman who goes through this terrible ordeal and quickly embraces the fact she is sexually abused by some repulsive douchebag; in fact she seems to enjoy it. She has his baby that's taken away, spends many years in prison and... walks out kind of retarded. She pushes out her jaw to look moronic, but somehow forgets to keep it that way when she speaks. She treats her rapist like Jesus and never realizes how full of sh!t he was. Her grown up daughter wears obviously fake horse teeth dumbing down her appearance. I don't know whether it was bad writing, or Portman making her tragic characters look silly. Perhaps both. I just couldn't root for her - her character(s) seemed unintentionally dumb.

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I don't think she was retarded, she just lost her sanity.

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She certainly doesn't look dumber than the woman on your picture. She doesn't get out retarded, just insane, which is normal during the circumstances. Most probably this happened when they took her baby away. From then on her brain is stuck into that moment and yes - she's also stuck into the only man she's even been with and insanity obviously took her rationality and sharpness of mind away!

P.S. I like her daughter version even more, didn't look dumb to me, just wild, pretty and quite sexy, although I've never been such a fan of the usual Portman's appearance.

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