jeffyoung1 — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 01:39 AM)

I don't care how much makeup and how well Nina Romina made herself look, she was still a 60-year old woman - I mean the actress playing her character. The movie never did disclose her age and I think moviegoers were meant to assume she might have been in her late 40s. I'm sitting in the theater getting grossed out by Lou hitting on 60-year old Nina Romina for sexual favors and the woman agrees. I felt perversely impressed with the Nina Romina character, how a A-type personality, overweening ambitious, educated, highly intelligent woman, even at age 60, has 'flexible ethics and morals', to lend out her body for sex if that's what it takes to achieve her professional career objectives and goals. Don't let anything stand in the way of success and mission achievement, including being reticent about who you give your body to for sex.
I would have preferred if Hollywood hired a known or somewhat known actress from her late 30s to early 40s to play the role of Nina Romina. I can certainly believe a professional career woman acting ruthlessly like that, achieving career success by her mid to late thirties.
It would have been more believable with early 30s something Lou coercing a sexual tryst from a willing, ambitious woman who is in her late 30s to early 40s. Normally you'd feel sympathy for a woman who is coerced into giving up sex. But you don't feel that way for Nina Romina. True, she did not offer sex first and initially resisted Lou's sexual demands. She relented only when she knew she needed Lou's accident videos badly for career security. She could have still said no. But she did the mental calculation and the sex was a small price to pay. Even though Lou may seem like a reptilian character, physically he's a trim, attractive, white man and Nina could have done far worse in agreeing to a sexual partner for business reasons.