Floozy Speak!

Well I just finished watching Secretary, just came in the door a few short hours ago from Mr. Netflix himself. Now I first heard this movie on my usual trip down trailer lane, ya know the stops, joblo etc... but a few months ago Mike mentioned it in normal, our group email arena. So I put it on the list to be watched.

What did Mike see in this tale of two... well hell heres what netflix says "Recently released from a mental hospital after treatment for self-mutilating tendencies, a young woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) gets a job as a secretary for a successful attorney (James Spader) with a tendency toward angry disapproval. The mix of self-loathing (her) and egomania (him) leads them into a unique relationship charged with sadomasochism. Jeremy Davies plays Gyllenhaal's "normal" boyfriend, has issues of his own."

Neat huh? Well the movie is actually quite good. I enjoyed it. I've always like James Spader and this seems like the perfect part for him. Maggie Gyllenhaal is utter convincing course i dont know many sadomasacistic type folks.. aside from normal. Still a nice little love story with a twist. Trying to find words to explain it is difficult really I dont know what to say other than I liked it. I was curious and dug a bit deeper on what other people felt about it and to see what movies like this may be out there.

One netflix summed my feelings on it pretty good..:

"What an awesome movie! This is the kind of dark comedy where no one in the theater is sure whether they should be laughing or not, so there's a little nervous laughter here and there. Secretary shocks when it needs to shock, and gets a little too real in all the right places. It makes you uncomfortable and squirmy. You wonder whether you should be disgusted at the relationship between boss and secretary, or is it the healthiest thing for the both of them. After all, they appear to happy. However, through every uncomfortable scene where sanity and morals are questioned, you are glued. You don't want to blink for fear of missing something. Thanks."

And of course a counter point to that is:

"Ugh...If you're going to make a movie about a couple of freaks, at least make it interesting. If this movie was supposed to teach us something, I didn't get it. Maybe you'll like it better than I did, but I doubt it. "

Its interesting to note that Maggie's brother also plays around with the dark side of things as he did in Donnie Darko..."an edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future. "

Another movie I liked. Hmmm what's it all mean? Everything new, everything new.

I wonder at times if I too have sado-masacistic desires. When i feel woozy, like i'm about to pass out mainly cause my stomach is upset or something, i used to, and still do, pinch my finger really really hard.. almost like diverting the nervous system to say, "hey theres pain up here,..." or something. Like a bad habbit growing up, i still do it occasionally. Course its not sado i dont think, but i do like the pain. Like today one of the gals at work gave me a really hard and mean quick neck massage , i said bring it on and she did for 5 mins. And she was mean. It hurt like hell but loved it. Is that sado? Dang! I still recall the massages i'd get where the massage center people would give me trigger point massages. They'd ask "that hurt" and i wouldnt say a thing cause I wanted more of it. Maybe that is sado. Course after those massages I always felt like a million bucks.

Speaking of massage I could see doing that really. I even picked up the trigger point map of the spine and back areas just to know how it all works. I even practice on folks at work and my father for his shoulder rotator cup problem.. he can always use a good massage. I'm pretty obessed with massages. I surf amazon and look at all the machines for back this, arm that.. and I have one of the neck/back massagers, its ok, its not the real thing. What I really want and someday i'll break down completely and buy it. You know... the chair. Not the cheeseball electro vibe chair, the real deal chair thats like 3k. That would awesome. I also think an inversion table would be cool too. I could see be strapped down and totally upside down as refreshing, being so tall it would be nice.

Soon I will break out the big stick and get a bond massage. Yep, the chick hanging from the ceiling massage where ya know they give ya the feet. That would be awesome.. gotta try that. Seeing Secretary makes me think, ok im not that sado but maybe i am just a little bit when it comes to massage.