She pretty clearly says no. How she felt about it the next day is another matter entirely (and pretty weird too), but that evening she definitely wasn't willing.
She tries to fight him off in the movie. She's shown actively resisting him. With him insisting that it's her duty as wife to sleep with him and her clearly refusing. It's textbook marital rape. You can "not buy that rape shit" as much as you like, but in the movie it is clearly non-consensual sex. Non-consensual sex is rape, plain and simple.
Perhaps it plays out differently in the book, but in the movie the change of mind by the morning is bizarre. That evening her husband threatens to kill her and then forcefully carries her to the bedroom against her will. Yet in the morning she's so happy they had sex and she loves him. In the movie that transition comes off as completely contrived and I'm reviewing the movie here.
But rapist or not, Clark Gable's character really is a bit of a dick.
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Perhaps it plays out differently in the book, but in the movie the change of mind by the morning is bizarre. That evening her husband threatens to kill her and then forcefully carries her to the bedroom against her will. Yet in the morning she's so happy they had sex and she loves him. In the movie that transition comes off as completely contrived and I'm reviewing the movie here.
But rapist or not, Clark Gable's character really is a bit of a dick.
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