Working Girl
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Joan Cusack, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney WeaverBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: A Modern Cinderella Story
Summary: 3 Stars
In the airplane, the lights have gone dim and the New York skyline has started to flicker on the projection screen. Headphones resonate with the opening song that praises the dawn of a New Jerusalem. Ensconced in my narrow seat, I am literally glued to the movie screen, while Tess McGill takes off her sneakers and puts on her high-heeled shoes. Her working day has just begun, and I am on my way to visit the New World for the first time in my life. Unbeknown to us, we are about to undergo a life-changing experience: she from a frustrated secretary to a high-powered corporate executive, and I from teenage to adult youth.
There are scenes and places that you never forget. They acquire the quality of a defining moment, when fiction takes over reality and the boundaries of conscience wither away, opening the gates to the unknown. All of a sudden, imagination is in command, projecting the self to another dimension where the rules of time and space no longer apply. This state of mind, when the spirit still resists the bizarre fantasies of the dream, often allows us to experience some of the most salient impressions that can mark the memory for a lifetime.
Why did this cheap romantic comedy exert such a long-lasting impression on me? Inasmuch as I can recollect the past and delve into my own psyche, I think that my experience at that time was both liminal and libidinal. Or to put it in other words, this moment had to do with crossing limits and with sex appeal.
Thanks to that plane, I was going across borders, both spatial and temporal. It was my first trip to the US, and my first airplane travel since infanthood. At twenty, I was no longer a teenager, and the fact that I had bought the plane ticket with my own money made me feel like an adult. Along with a small group of fellow students, I was about to experience the American dream that had me fantasize throughout the years. Lacking practice, I was still unsure of my English and I had to listen hard to the dialogues, as it was the first American movie that I saw without French subtitles.
But English wasn't the only reason why Tess McGill's husky voice had me on a spell. She bewitched me right from the start, beginning with that first scene when she takes off her shoes under the concupiscent eyes of her two male coworkers. No actress, except perhaps Catherine Deneuve in 'Belle de Jour', ever made such an impression on my senses.
Come to think of it, shoes play an important part in this modern Cinderella story. They too are a marker of limits and a tool for sexual attraction. As illustrated by the transition from the commuter's tennis shoes to office attire, they mark the boundary between personal and professional life, between Tess' working class condition and the world to which she aspires. Shoes are an instrument of social status, class and rank, like the hairstyle that Tess has to change to move upwards and the briefcase that she receives from deal-maker Jack Trainer. In a scene of sadistic quality, Katherine Parker has her assistant bow at her feet in a humiliating position in order to remove the ski boot that she was trying on.
When Tess McGill takes advantage of her boss having broken her leg at a European ski resort in order to impersonate her, she literally puts herself into her shoes. Meanwhile, Katherine Parker uses her plaster leg as a tool of seduction, having the whole hospital male crew sign on it in an orgiastic farewell party, or taking advantage of her immobilization to dispose herself in a lace negligee in order to reconquer her former lover. Cinderella's glass slipper takes the form ot Tess' scrapbook, which exposes her deception when she leaves it in the hands of her infuriated boss but also becomes the instrument of her salvation when she is able to recollect the story behind the business deal that the treacherous Katherine cannot construe.
More than the few scenes of exposed nudity, fetishist undertones run throughout the story, giving it a dark glow that bore on my memory since that first plane trip.
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