I am almost positive that I saw this film previously, and, probably in the year that it was
released, 1986--the worst year of my life. 9 1/2 Weeks stars Mickey Rourke, and Kim Basinger. I was never really fond of these actors but they do an excellent job in this beautiful controversial flick.
Kim Basinger is a successful but lonely woman living in New York City. She meets a stranger, Mickey Rourke, who buys her an expensive item that she could never afford. But he buys it because he can. This starts the intrigue between the two. He is the tall dark mysterious man that doesn't really reveal much of himself. He is obviously incredibly wealthy, but it is not really revealed what it is that he does. And that feeling of subservience is paralleled when the blindfold scene is presented to us later in the film. He controls his life by controlling others. He has his world under his control and that includes his sexuality towards her.
It is a film about a relationship that is doomed because of it's sexuality, that is all you need to know. Judge for yourself how good or how bad it is. I personally liked this film very much and I do recommend it.