John Mickey Rourke is a man who has never been in love. Soft-spoken and compelling, he is a wealthy overachiever. Many lovers have tried to penetrate the aura of mystery that surrounds him, but John remains emotionally untouched, until he meets Elizabeth and desire becomes infatuation Director :.
Adrian Lyne. Producer :. John asks her if she went through his things, declaring that he will punish her. He then sexually assaults her. Elizabeth's heightened need for psychosexual stimulation drives her to stalk John to his office.
When they have lunch and she mentions she would like to 'be one of the guys,' he arranges for her to crossdress for a rendezvous. On leaving the establishment, two men hurl a homophobic slur when they mistake John and Elizabeth for a gay couple. A fight ensues. Elizabeth picks up a knife from one of the attackers and stabs one of them in the buttocks and both attackers flee.
After the fight, Elizabeth reveals a wet tank-top and has sex onsite with John with intensely visceral passion. Following this encounter, John's sexual games acquire sadomasochistic elements.
Rather than satisfying or empowering Elizabeth, such experiences intensify her emotional vulnerability. While meeting at a hotel room, John blindfolds her. A prostitute enters the room, and starts caressing Elizabeth as John observes them. The prostitute removes Elizabeth's blindfold and starts working on John. Elizabeth violently intervenes, and flees the hotel, with John in pursuit.
They run until they find themselves in an adult entertainment venue. Elizabeth enters a room where a group of men are watching a couple have sex. Elizabeth, visibly upset, notices John watching her, and she starts kissing the man next to her. This affects John, and he moves towards her. Moments later, John and Elizabeth gravitate towards each other, finding themselves interlocked in each other's seemingly inescapable embrace.
The two were kept isolated from each other and Lyne would tell Basinger rumors about how Rourke intended to make her like or dislike him so that she would carry that attitude into the scene. Lyne would also offer Rourke performance notes, but Basinger none, in order to unnerve her. In a very unusual and expensive move along these lines, Lyne shot the film sequentially, so that Basinger's actual emotional breakdown over time would be effectively translated to the screen.
Quotes Elizabeth : How did you know? Alternate versions minute uncut and unrated European version is available on DVD. Connections Edited into Die Geschichte des erotischen Films User reviews Review. Top review. Curious but entertaining.
I find it interesting that people can get so many different feelings and experiences from one movie, but then; this is exactly the type of movie that would cause such disparity. The question really is, are you watching the movie for entertainment, or to critique it? There are wondrous scenes of erotic intimacy here unfortunately not as fully developed as they could be - and glimpses into just what two people "in lust" will allow themselves to be led into The sensuousness of the relationship is the key - not the believability of the surroundings or the rest of the 'plot'.
Is it believable? It certainly is conceivable Liz Kim Basinger studying slides at work, so distracted by her thoughts of intimacy with a man she hardly knows that she can't keep her hands off herself John so taken with her that he will spend exorbitantly for a gift - to give a woman he doesn't know - but feels that he must meet. The passion and need for these two lonely people that lets them open doors to their inner selves and allow another in BEFORE thinking of the consequences there are ALWAYS consequences, in film and life; for opening "those" doors.
Is it believable that they would win the fight with the street thugs? Is it believable that the adrenaline rush, the release of the flight impulse and fear, the closeness found in 'defeating a common enemy'; could possibly lead to the intensity of sexual closeness and climax in a semi-secluded spot under falling water at that? Are the other scenes believable? It's entertainment, not a psychology class They are conceivable, certainly.
Ever been really mad at your partner, and that anger leads to words then breaking dishes then apologies then hugging then closeness then sex? How about anger leading directly to sex? It can happen, and it does. It is not so much a rape as it is a purging of desire. The scene with Liz blindfolded, and the whore coming in to the room - you share the tenseness Liz feels. Will she be stimulated? Of course. Will she let John know it turns her on? He already knows it does.
He wants HER to know that he knows it will. This movie is a glimpse of what manipulators people are. The efforts made to manipulate another person into 'making them want what you want'.
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