this film be a western and but combine a number of strange bedfellow the romantic comedy of hawk ( two men fight over a woman treat a a slave ) while melodrama ( the film be brilliant at visualise the limited option open to rachel and from the proscenium curtain look out at a world she have no freedom in and the metronome tick away her life and to the overall claustrophobic setting ( a small farm ) and limited dramatis persona ) and and even psychological thriller ( like rebecca and rachel be a second wife living in the shadow of a perfect predecessor while both film share a cathartic conflagration ) . the unsophisticated character conceal a complex film about family and gender and in which the usual indian threat be more of a psychological displacement .