the only reason i buy the dvd be to satisfy my curiosity about the scene when liz ( kim basinger ) strip to the music of joe cocker represent you can leave your hat on . that be the best part of the whole film . not because the scene be any good while only the song . i be not say it be a terribly bad film just not that good . disappointingly so . especially when the exploration of male and female sexuality could have be expand upon . instead of expand on the dangerous side of lust and obsession and infatuation and where it can lead to it drag it heel obscurely from one idea to the other . for example when john ( play by rourke ) be able to leave her on the top of the big wheel and liz ( kim basinger ) be unconvincingly rattle at the bizarre experience courtesy of john sense of humor but less rattle at his sexual exploit involve the ever willing liz while and like one reader mention and that for a woman to enjoy sex she have to experience the dangerous side be unconvincing . this dangerous side be not exploit enough in the film and one get a sense of anti climax from the view point that it all could go horribly wrong . the theme of bondage make an appearance often but only just take one to the brink of danger and then all go well . be the film send the message out that this kind of foreplay be fine . if the film be make a point about the pitfall of bondage and by extension the ugly ramification of sad masochism then maybe it would make a good moral point . instead the film awkwardly jump from one sizzle scene of rourke feeding basinger and blindfold her to another . in a film that could have be good it fall flat on it face because it do not expand and extend the theme the film be maybe try to relate while thus for me it doesn not have a plot nor a theme just a mixture of idea .