Wild Orchid

Again I went searching through HBOGo's list of movies and I came up with Wild Orchid staring Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, and Carré Otis. I have always like Mickey Rourke and Jacqueline Bisset; thus I watched this movie that was released in 1989. What I saw was a strange, erotic movie that pretty much is pointless. Nonetheless, I thought it was a beautiful film and enjoyed watching it.

Wild Orchid tells the story of an inexperienced young woman, Emily (Otis), who is hired as an international lawyer, leaves on the next flight for Rio de Janeiro along with senior lawyer played by Bisset (Claudia), and there meets James, Mickey Rourke. They become locked in a contest of psychological control. By the end of the film, Emily will have been mentally savaged and physically ravished by James and others, at first against her will.

With the storyline being ultimately pointless and less than thrilling it means that Wild Orchid works on an erotic level. And that erotic level is basically Emily being shown the other side to Rio where she sees people having sex on a construction site, masquerade parties where it's all about sex and of course eventually ending up having sex with James which gives us the notorious realistic sex scene between James and Emily. Now all these sex scenes, and there are many, have imaginative use of lighting, slow motion, and cascading water which makes them seem artistic.

I only recommend this film who is not upset with sex and eroticism in a movie.