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| Secretary
Directed By: Steven
Shainberg Plot
Summary - Review 1 - Review
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| Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in New Jersey after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.[TRAILER] [STEVE'S SECTION] Check out Reviews, Commentary, and More at Zertinet.com |
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Most people
have screwed up views of sex. I think that will be shown by the utterly
uncomfortable ways people shuffle around in their seats - and how people
don't know what to think after leaving the cinema. I certainly didn't for
quite a while. At the very least the film at least got me thinking. Secretary follows a Lee Holloway whom after getting out of rehab for a disorder where she scars herself, starts a loving sadomasochistic relationship with her boss. I think most of us would assume that someone who scars themselves needs some sort of psychiatric help. However, her condition is largely brought on by her alcoholic father whose condition is largely ignored until he's put in the hospital. Lee's condition doesn't hurt anyone. She never permanently scars herself, and it becomes largely therapeutic for her. Feeling pain to her brings her emotions out on the surface and lets her deal with them. Drinking on the other hand only clouds emotions and let people not deal with them. Alcoholism causes long term liver problems - a few cuts and bruises doesn't cause much damage. Secretary is listed as a comedy only to let people in the theatre feel more comfortable. The classification lets people laugh at the characters. It has humorous moments, but is really a romance. If a few aspects of the movie where replaced with more socially acceptably forms of romance, people would instantly call it a classic romance. Regardless of weather you are into S&M or if you get into less traditional forms of sexual relations, this movie is far more true than I see in most traditional romances. At the end of the movie there is a nude scene that is if nothing else more honest than anything else this year. Please walk into this movie with an open mind. Do not let your prejudices towards what sex and love are turn you off to this movie without at least giving it a chance. I'm sure some of the behavior you participate in is considered destructive by some people.  
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