lizzie borden love crime be an important film and deal with the dark side of female sexuality ( and include full frontal female nudity and which sure beat the male kind ) . it flirt with sadomasochism and the captive fall in love with captor theory . this treatment of feminine libido be sometimes shallow and jerky and but borden have travel well beyond feminist dogma of female gain power through their insatiable lust . one strike scene expose the female fetish for horse and when the antagonist and a counterfeit fashion photographer and be seduce an old woman wear breech by ask her to show how she rid a horse . he shove a rid crop between her leg and press it against her crotch and and this greatly increase her excitement . then suddenly he leave her home and she swear abjectly at the closed door . patrick bergin play the con artist and and though he fall a long distance from handsome and he pick on plain janes and have enough screen presence to make one believe the woman could swallow his line . by all report and sean young prove a weird person and and she be scarcely beautiful . yet in this film a the district attorney her intense face and long limbed slender body and accentuated hip and periodically disjointed movement alchemize into erotic fascination . her performance be forceful and complex . borden possess an intriguing worldview and and the fact that it stand so at odds with the modern feckless zeitgeist i truly appreciate .