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The film Thelma & Louise (1991) has often been criticized for presenting women with negative role models. This criticism takes the film too literally, failing to recognize how Thelma & Louise, as film fantasy, effects more complex psychological experiences of gender construction. This article explores the psychological fascination of the film as allegorical fantasy.