9 1/2 Weeks

Director Adrian Lyne has made quite the living exploring sexuality and the who whole sub/dom aspect of it and nowhere will you find him on top of it than here in 9 1/2 WEEKS. I don't feel there is any need to go into the thematic form of this steamy screen burning featuring the excellent talents of Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger other than to point out it seems pretty tame just a little over twenty years later which I suppose is to be expected in some ways. Still, the visual stylings of Lyne make this a more than enjoyable trip down memory lane and you may want to hunt this down for that purpose alone. He manages to capture the hollowness of the sex for it's own sake and finance is king spirit of the mid-eighties and if nothing else this film may make you question the idea of if we have really changed all that much.