Desperate Woman Deserved it....
Not that I am one to say someone deserves to die, however I feel this is the first movie I have ever watched that in the end, I was hoping she would crash that motorcycle. Rebecca is a desperate woman who thinks her motorcycle and big breasts are liberating her, when she is just digging herself into a hole.
Girl on a Motorcycle was anything but liberating for women. Rebecca felt the victim of her circumstances, when she was the one that made things worse for herself. Her husband was nothing but sweet to her, even if she did find him a bit boring, he didn't force this marriage on her - she got herself into this situation. After her sexual encounter with another man at the resort she pushed the marriage on Raymond, He wanted nothing but to make her happy and she continued to make herself miserable and blame him for it.
The "Male Gaze" is heavily used in this film, and Rebecca hopes for such attention. She expects every man she comes across to berate her and see her as a sexual object. In her dreams, the dark skinned border patrol feels her up and talks sexually to her. Then, when she rides through in real life she accuses the attendant of being queer because he does not make a pass at her. Rebecca thinks that she can use her body to get what she wants. And with this affair she feels as though she is liberating herself, while I feel she is doing the exact opposite.
Throughout the movie Rebecca feels she is liberating herself from her husband and her marriage. By waking up in the middle of the night and talking to herself saying, "if only he would wake up I wouldn't go." She blames her adulteress actions on her husband, when in the end I find he did nothing wrong, and does not deserve to be treated this way by her. She seeks liberation and ends up finding herself caught in another man's tangled web. She is not free, she begs for acceptance from Daniel and hopes he will like her and much as she likes him. She "liberates" herself from her husband while letting another man use her as a sexual object.
Liberation does not come to this woman, and death may have been the only thing to release her from the mess she had gotten herself into.