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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!) is a 1990 film by Pedro Almodóvar, an offbeat Spanish drama starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril.
The film follows Ricky (Banderas), a young man recently released from a mental institution, who has been obsessed with Marina (Abril), an actress, former porn star, and recovering heroin addict, since the pair shared a one-night stand one year ago. Ricky kidnaps Marina, believing that he can force her to fall in love with him. Eventually, Marina does fall in love with him, but still considers herself his prisoner, and tells him to keep her tied up so that she won't try to escape. Subsequently, she reluctantly escapes with the assistance of her sister Lola (played by Loles Léon), but the lovers are eventually reunited.
This film created controversy and was denounced by
women's rights groups in the
United States for its light-hearted depiction of
kidnapping and
rape. Also, along with
Henry & June it was instrumetal in creating the
NC-17 rating in light of a lawsuit brought on by
Miramax and Almodóvar to the
MPAA for being certified with an
X rating, which had the stigma for being associated with
pornography. The film was initally released unrated and later re-rated NC-17 for video after the
Henry & June controversy. Surprisingly,
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! contains only very few instances of explicit sexuality despite its risqué subject matter.
