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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