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The 'playhouse'

posted 15 years ago by BoogieTights
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Or the men's club... whatever you want to call it. Would women really find this as a suitable birthday present?

Did I miss something or was this scene cut when older lover takes her to the private club at 3 AM ? This was supposedly a birthday surprise BUT what really happened, if anything,
when he took her up the wooden spiral staircase ? I suspect this scene was cut !

[–] stemal-1 14 years ago

I'm sure the scene wasn't cut - it was made clear from what was said later in the film what had gone on upstairs in the club, and there was really no need to show it explicitly.

[–] blacknyellowsquid 13 years ago

............no. I would't, anyway. I'd think he was a scumball after that.

[–] Squeeth2 12 years ago

After....

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

[–] skay_baltimore 11 years ago

Or the men's club... whatever you want to call it. Would women really find this as a suitable birthday present?

That's really what the whole film hinges upon -- that there are some people, very damaged people, who DO, in fact, find that sort of degradation and humiliation suitable. It's what makes the character of Gabrielle so frustrating, and compelling. Why would someone so beautiful and loving feel the need to be degraded and humiliated by the man she truly loves? It's a sad, but unfortunately valid, statement of the human condition for some people.

It's like...why are some people only able to get off when they're whipped to the point that they have red welts on their butts? Who knows? It's how they're wired. And Gabrielle was just wired the way she was, and struggled to deal with that reality the best way she could.

"Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you DO". (The Last Kiss)