Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) lives in a discordant family and has "self-destructive" behaviors since she was a child. After returning home from a period of treatment at a psychiatric center, she wants to reintegrate into a normal person life. So she learned to type and got a job as a typist at a law firm. In the beginning, Lee had a lot of typing problems, and was discovered by her employer E. Edward Grey (James Spader). Grey called Lee to his office. In order to let Lee remember her mistakes deeply, he let Lee Lee was lying on the desk before he started to sexually abuse her with a whip. Over time, the two developed a wonderful emotion, which also weakened Lee's "self-destructive" tendency on the other hand. Lee fell in love with Grey, but Grey was too ashamed to let his eccentricities know, so he fired Lee. Lee's boyfriend Peter (Jeremy Davies) proposed to her, she said yes, but on the wedding day, she fled to Grey's office...
This is a movie that surprised me. From the beginning, I didn't hold out much hope, but the more I looked at it, the more I couldn't let it go, as if I was chewing sugar cane, and it was getting better. These days, good scripts are rare. The script is good and the performance is better. After watching it, it can still make people aftertaste. Isn't this a good movie? I give five stars. The plot of the film revolves around sadomasochism. The theme of the movie is love. In fact, sadomasochism in the movie should be used as a metaphor, just like the ring in Lord of The Ring, it can replace any other stereotypes that are not tolerated by the world, such as homosexuality, obesity, disability, and even race, social status, etc. This story is not simply about how a masochistic woman meets a sadistic man, but a story of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-love. In fact, from the beginning, Lee and Edward had "the yellow eagle caught the Harrier's foot - both buckled," but because they couldn't accept their "abnormal" sexual behavior, they (Edward in particular) had been The magnet-like attraction and self-denial drifted away, until in the end Lee made that tragic act that thoroughly proved her love. In fact, compared to Lee, Edward is the more painful one, because he does not accept himself more than Lee, and does not understand his own needs, so his struggles are also more violent and destructive. But how lucky he was that he met no one else but Lee! This woman knows him not only physically, but also spiritually! Love does not have to be tender and tender. Love can also be violence and scars, as long as two people in love are in love with each other. How different people's feelings and needs are, some we think are good, and thus promote, and some we think are bad, and thus inhibit. But who knows? What is considered bad may also have infinite charm, and even its core is the most precious wealth of human beings - love.
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