This dark little movie includes among its cast James Spader, who is unfortunately ridiculously sexy in just about anything he's done, and how he manages that I don't know.
It also include Maggie Gyllenhaal, who has been in lots of different things but who made the biggest impression on me in her small role in Cecil B. Demented. She's cute, perky, bouncy, and really really dark and demented all at the same time.
The movie has a fairly simple concept, inter-office relationships.
Of course, the twist here being when management uses the varying policies of B&D (bondage and dominance if that doesn't make sense to some) to manage obviously submissive secretaries.
The great pros of this movie are the delicacy and balance with which the growing B&D relationship is handled between the boss and the secretary. It definitely plays well and works well with the Dominant/Submissive relationship, and presents it in a light that could be realistic and, was, very effective.
Unfortunately it also uses several different scenes to portray the two roles in an almost comic way, one in which serious aficionados might find horribly misrepresented. I think the particular use of the saddle and carrot, come to mind as simply making fun of the relationship, rather than showing how emotionally intense it can be.
The film does manage to redeem itself in the end by showing the power, beauty, and love that can bond together dominant and submissive partners, and the lengths to which both must go to be satisfied themselves.
All in all, a very interesting and arousing view.
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