Finally Got the DVD

I bought the dvd out of curiousity, because I've heard about it much or read something of it, but I haven't read the book, I think it's worthwhile to at least watch for something out of the ordinary, the only thing I don't like on the dvd is that the director's commentary goes about halfway through the movie & cuts off.

kia-1: "I have seen this movie years ago but it was good to get the DVD so I can see it whenever I want."

So I take it the DVD itself is of good quality then? It looks and sounds OK, no problems?


kia-1: "I have a great collection of films featuring BDSM now, including Secretary (my fave), La Prisonniere, a very sexy film that doesn't seem very well known in this country, Nine 1/2 Weeks, which I used to think was hot but I think I must have been left out in the sun too long when I thought that. I was disappointed in it this time."

Secretary (2002) rules.

After that the great erotic S& M genre movies are ... I haven't seen much that I like.


kia-1: "I was pleased that the movie followed the book so closely, especially in the beginning. Some changes included Pierre and Jacqueline falling in love with O. I preferred the original, especially the part about Jacqueline. She was supposed to be a b*tch who was totally self-centered. Of course, the ending was changed considerably. I didn't care for her burning Sir Stephen but then I didn't care for his abandoning her in the book either. Maybe Pauline Reage didn't believe a Master-Slave relationship could have a "happily ever after" ending. La Prisonniere ended tragically too. Maybe it's this feeling that s/m is such a transgression that the characters must come to a bad end. I loved that Secretary had a happy ending. I guess it's just the American in me. :) "

This of course is why I like Americans. :)

I like the ending in the movie version of Story Of O very much. I think it's the best thing in the movie. It's forceful, but ambiguous, and you can have the ever-after you want.

If you want, O is finally retaliating, which breaks the basis of the relationship and re-establishes the iron law of hopelessness: no good can come of this.

If you prefer, as I do, O is establishing firmly that the chain has two ends: she is held, and she holds, and she will not be abandoned as she was in the book. (An ending I did not like at all.) This is the best of endings.


kia-1: "Anyway, this is a Story of O board, not a Secretary board so, to get back to O, I thought the movie was very well done. I'm glad I have it in my library."

Assuming the DVD is worthy of the movie, I will be happy to have it too.

I'm disappointed the UK version & I beleive the US version is dubbed into English with no original language option available!

The only one for sale presently in French Lang to my knowledge is the Japanese version.