![]() ![]() But it also seemed true to what might happen in a culture which provides no information or support for its kinkyfolk. (One scat play scene was apparently faked, which was OK by me - shudder.) Some of the play was not up to community standards of safe technique a shot of a garden hose thudding down right across the woman's kidneys had me cringing. Switchings, canings, paddlings - with lingering camera shots afterwards of welts and bruises. As far as I could tell, most of the scenes of BDSM play were real, not staged or faked - and they're intense. The bad things that happen in the movie take place because of outside intervention by the vanilla world, not because there's anything wrong or sick about the couple themselves. ![]() The emotional reactions to play are dead-on. Consent is scrupulously observed, with plenty of check-ins and other good communciation. The two types of players - the sculptor is a primary sadomasochist, whose needs for BDSM play are strong, innate and non-situation-dependent the student is a secondary sadomasochist, who derives her enjoyment of BDSM from her partner's reaction - are accurately and sympathetically portrayed. But if you can get past that, what's left at the core is one of the most sympathetic, honest and realistic portrayals I've ever seen of BDSM as it's actually played. This is not "Last Tango In Paris" or anything like it. Amateurishly filmed, with shaky camera work and some of the weirdest directorial decisions I've ever seen. First, the bad stuff: it's not a very good movie. I just got back from seeing the new Korean film "Lies," a portrayal of a consensual BDSM relationship between an 18-year-old student and a 38-year-old sculptor. ![]()
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