She discovered the fetish scene while at university in London. I was shocked by how awful the film was. Ridiculous, really. The sex scenes were so vanilla. There was a lot of beautiful equipment, but not much going on in terms of actual BDSM: it was just about Christian tying Anastasia up.
Relationships can be depicted in different ways that are not heteronormative, often to great results. Before the recent popularizing of Fifty Shades of Grey, there were several other films that made use of nontraditional relationships. This list includes a few of the best to tackle to subject successfully. This film is a great example of sensitive material handled well; done any differently, the film might be too silly to take seriously. But the characters feel like three-dimensional people. Schroeder found the perfect balance of making Maitresse a risque film, as well as making it a solid love story with complex characters.
On the surface, the two seem to have a lot in common. But other than those plot points, the movies are entirely different animals. But Secretary eventually works out those problems by its end, which is just one reason that Secretary is a better BDSM movie.
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