I have about 7 movies, all Western, to do a post on this weekend I think. On an Asian BT site I found some Japanese series, six films so far I think, where this is the theme. I cannot connect with the download page yet to get one but will continue my noble efforts. I should do a post on getting movies and being connected in China. Anyway, the movies are called called something like “Perfect Education” ( I forget exactly) and the 1st one says on the DVD review that an older teacher captures a student and locks her up and she gradually learns to submit to him and love him. Sigh, love seems so simple in Japan.

I can only think of three off the top of my head.One is called The Keeper with Dennis Hopper and Asia Argento. I forget the details, but tough gal Asia Argento was not to be a kept butterfly without resistance. He was a cop and I forget how she winds up in his basement in a huge cage. I would include even the newer Black Snake Moan with Samual Jackson and Christina Ricci though the girl is not confined in a cage and the captor does not love her buts wants to save her soul. But it still fits the general theme of captor/captive relationship. There was a made for TV type movie (i.e. Tuesday Movie of the Week) called Sweet Hostage with Martin Sheen and Linda Blair where Sheen, in a young a lean performance, holds Blair, in a young and plump performance, captive and little by little she falls in love with him. I would like to see this movie again as Sheen does such a good job, as he usually does. Well, there are three, am I redeemed a little?

Maybe when I say the theme is done over and over it makes it sound like I mean a million times and so that may be a poor choice of words I will correct, but I think there have been a few others too of the exploitation type. In the Japanese pinku type films however the stalker captive/captor theme is more frequent and I am not a sociologist but I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that there is something in the culture itself that makes this a more marketable theme than here ( I should say there, where you are, in the States, as I am in Asia, but you now what I mean I think ). Here it would be hard for me to name films because of the obscurity of some these and getting info on them (getting info on this movie was hard) and the fact some movies I have seen are not even subtitled. Some are little more than violent porn flicks to be frank and not really deserving of a review here where we try to keep our standards, er… higher .

Anyway, it was a good question and I wish I had had a cup of coffee before tackling it. If I can come up with half a dozen I will do a special post on the topic. I want to start doing specialized posts, on themes, directors, actors, soundtracks, etc… I think I will reword my statement too as it does seem to infer there is a whole sub-genre of this stuff out there, which there really is not as far as I know.

Hmmm…. I’m still trying to think of one….dammit!

Bill