Erotic Anarchy

The Elegant Spanking is a black and white, silent (with cards) movie about an afternoon between a mistress and her slave, a beautiful maid.  The story line beings with the mistress amusing herself in front of a mirror, eventually masturbating with a string of pearls, as her maid watches while arranging flowers.  The tension mounts as the maid joins the mistress, with much foot licking and pee drinking (and a little tea drinking too as a plot device).

The climax of the movie revolves around the mistress punishing the maid with an ethusiastic spanking and pedal stimulation of the maid.  After the mistress dresses and leaves the maid relives her afternoon while licking the pearls.

Maria Beatty’s movies are very different than typical pornographic films, they’re arty and have good music.  The women tend to be more “natural” than in mainstream porn.  The sex is explicit and fairly clearly shot, though the movie structure does not follow the standard porn movie “sufficiently long” sex scene/minor break/next “sufficiently long” sex scene model.   This is a short film, about 30 minutes.  I did not see The Black Glove, the other feature on the DVD.

Going Under explores the relationship between a client and Mistress.

Going Under is compared to secretary, but it is not nearly as compelling: it is slow, the character development moderate, the tension weak.   It compares well to low-budget sex-themed independent movies except for a few notable exceptions such as ShortBus, Secretary or even the comparatively low budget also kinky  Preaching to the Perverted. The quality of actor willing to play naked, the quality of writer willing to address the erotic, the availability of money all limit the final product usually disappointingly.

Going is not so bad as to be unwatchable and the story has some fairly interesting developments, even if taken slowly. The story centers around the evolution of a relationship between a kinky submissive therapist named Peter (Roger Rees) and a professional dominatrix named Susanne (Geno Lechner).  The situation is complicated because Susanne is quitting her madame and Peter is married.

Peter’s wife is apparently unperturbed by Peter’s needs or by Susanne and Peter’s budding “out of the office” relationship, but Susanne’s girlfriend is not so amused.

Then, suddenly, nothing really changed; roll credits.

Roger Rees is frequently naked in the movie occasionally pretending to masturbate and there are plenty of mild fetish flavored BD/SM scenes, though nothing particularly erotic or explicit.   The costuming is pretty good: stylish though more restrained than Preaching to the Perverted.