Secretary (the movie)

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It was a great film up until the last 20 minutes or so, which were a complete cop-out.

― Jonathan Z., Monday, 5 January 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago) link

I think the comments made by Shainberg are pretty much exactly how I interpreted the film. I thought she became empowered through her masochism. Masochists are after all the ones who hold the power. I also like the idea of James Spader being an object because he did look really scared rather than scary throughout the film.

I could have done without the voice over, though. I think the whole story could have been told visually instead of erm told directly by MG.

― Catty (Catty), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

Revive, I guess, in that I finally saw this tonight. I think this quote from Gaitskill above:

"A lot of my characters are actually too incompetent to be properly called S/M practitioners..."

...kinda sums up how the movie felt, acknowledging Douglas's note about how movie != short story. It added to the absurd/satirical humor of the film as a whole. In sum: great!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

But in this morally heinous film

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

― marmotwolof, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

This film really felt like emo Juvenal, which I have no immediate problem with.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"emo Juvenal" is an awesome phrase.

Still my favorite Maggie G performance.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though I "got" the nature of the relationships in the film, it still creeped me the fuck out and I had to leave the home of the person I was watching it with.

― Tantrum The Cat, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

does anyone remember the scene where james spader's character asks maggie's character to put her hands on the desk, pull down her skirt and undergarment and he proceeded to, as the "lads" say,

play tug o war

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 10 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link

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