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need help clearing up stuff


I just watched the outlaw.. I am a little confused in some parts. For instance i have been reading the user comments for this movie and they sex is impled in certain scenes. I am a little confused on when billy and rio do it. Also when billy comes back to rio after she fill the cantens with sand. Is he threating to kill or just came back because she truly loves or something along that line? SO can u clear this up for me? thank you

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POSSIBLE SPOILERS The first "sex scene" is in the barn. After Rio tries to kill Billy and Billy has her pinned to the ground, when he says, "You'd better stop struggling or you won't have much dress left", and the camera moves away as any and all sounds are covered by loud music, it is implied that he rapes her. Also, there is the scene where she takes her clothes off and gets into bed with him to "cure him". As for the scene when Billy comes back after finding that the canteens have sand in them, when they ask each other if they will look at each other when he "does it to her", there is little doubt what "it" is: a second rape, followed by tying her up in the desert. To tell the truth, I felt sorry for Rio through the whole movie, and found it very hard to sympathise with Billy at all. I find it hard to believe that Rio would be so happy and run to Billy with delight in the end after all he put her through.

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benthow, I believe you must be very inexperience in romance:

It is always a sign of true love when you fill your rapist's canteens with sand and try to drown him.

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You were confused by some parts of the movie?? You are actually doing better than me because I found almost the whole movie confusing.

In real life had the actual Doc Holliday suspected Billy the Kid of stealing his horse he would have ambushed him with the double barrel shotgun he was known to carry sometimes. He'd have let him have it with both barrels.

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Probably need to call in the industrial cleaners to be assured of fixing the mess that was this film.

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