Boxing Helena (1993)
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Directed by: Jennifer Lynch
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn (Helena), Julian Sands (Dr. Nick Cavanaugh), Betsy Clark (Anne), Meg Register (Mother), Bill Paxton (Ray), Kurtwood Smith (Dr. Alan), Art Garfunkel (Dr. Lawrence)
Country: USA
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:45:19
Plot/Genres – Spoilers:
A successful surgeon Nick has plain Anne, but craves ravishing Helena – a woman he clumsily slept with once, and whose promiscuity brings back fond memories of his mother. So he decides to keep Helena.
Genres: Body Modification, Captivity-Kidnapping, Voyeur
More thoughts – Massive Spoilers
If it all were just a dream, that would be a sensible way to avoid all the nitty-gritties of reality. How does Helena look when she wakes up and her hair hasn’t been done perfectly. Is she still attractive to Nick when he’s helping her take a shit – assuming he’s not into shit.
There’s a nice detail of Helena’s head propped up by a pillow. But in Nick’s world, the visual perfection of a limbless Helena surrounded by beautiful flowers would most likely be offset by such seemingly minor, nodding realities.
Pretty good!Thank you Eum.
This movie was pretty bad. Hopefully, she improved as a filmmaker.
She has a nice growler.
never trust the british
I didn’t expect that ending though. Despite being promiscuous as she is, it seems like Helena is still hungry for more extreme obsession/captivity play. Maybe that’s the horror of the story. idk. I think it would be also interesting if she approaches Nick with that mindset after her accident. Yandere x Yandere? Then the sexy scenes could be used to create some horror tension or creepy built-up for the characters instead of brushing it off as romance.
I actually thought this movie was a pretty good Sherilyn Fenn was really beautiful in this movie
*spoilers*? A movie symbolic of a culture of patriarchy and male domination over women. The fantasy that many men have, and/or view women as objects rather than people or a person.
Sure, it’s kind of corny at times, dorky acting/scenarios, but you have to look into the deeper meaning as a whole. Plus, Sherilyn Fenn is gorgeous.