During the class, there was a discussion about whether the female character, a psychiatrist and a successful writer, was raped by the guy or not. It is hard to say that she was directly raped by anyone in the movie: yes she went through a sexual relationship which she regretted in the end, yet, to me, it seemed like that she was the one who triggered all these to happen in the first place. While acting as a very cold, "driven" and professional woman, who would act as a role model of all women, Margaret later makes a very indirect, and sexual desire to Mike, the con-man.
Now, it seems important to note that Mike set everything up in order for her to make such affectionate implication to him, and that, to Mike, it was only part of the process in his little scam. Mike, hence, had no interest in Margaret in reality. On the other hand, Margaret's desire to be with Mike was real, and she was, of course, scarred from such experience in the end, when she found out that the whole thing was only a scam, and Mike never loved her anyways.
To conclude from this observation through the movie, I could say that she was raped, but not physically, yet more intellectually and mentally. Her feminine confident, for being the driver of all readers' motivation, and for being a psychiatrist, who helps and deals with people's mental states, was completely destroyed when she found out that everything was a scam and there is no changing back. It is also heartbreaking for her that her confidence as a professional in a psychological field, is dissolved by other scammers who proved her wrong.
So, physical rape, no, but mentally, yes.
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