Secretary (2002) w. Anna Fitzpatrick

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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What exactly is a paralegal? Join us and our pal Anna Fitzpatrick while we get sweaty with the superior Gyllenhaal and James Spader.You can find Anna online here (http://www.bananafitz.ca/)!You can find Anna's novel Good Girl here (http://www.bananafitz.ca/books). You can find Carolyn's song Break of Day here (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/break-of-day). You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can find us on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/youaregoodpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/youaregoodpod), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus (http://apple.co/yag). Patreon and Apple Plus supporters will get access to a longer version of this episode!Our very limited run of Vulnerability Kink merch can be found here:https://www.bonfire.com/vulnerability-kink-34you-are-good34-shirts/ (https://www.bonfire.com/vulnerability-kink-34you-are-good34-shirts/)Multitude (https://multitude.productions/) handles our ad sales!We made a playlist of songs inspired by this episode (https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/7323d466-6a9d-4c2d-be0e-bb1d6444d6c0)! The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 (https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/aa7466b1-54fb-4e5e-b5f9-0222b42ac6ae) is here.You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here (https://www.carolynkendrick.com/). She's also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/carekendrick).Chase Potter edited this episode!Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes.Liz Climo (https://thelittleworldofliz.com/) designed our logo!

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0:00.0	Hello you, welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies today we are talking about
0:14.6	Secretary with author Anna Fitzpatrick.
0:18.4	I'm one of your hosts Alex Steed will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah
0:23.8	Marshall.
0:24.8	If you're not familiar with Secretary and I'm reading straight from Wikipedia, please
0:29.1	don't hold it against me, but let's be concise here.
0:32.2	Secretary is a 2002 American erotic black comedy romantic drama film directed by Steven
0:38.8	Schaenberg and written by Aaron Crassita Wilson.
0:42.5	It's based on the short story Secretary by Mary Gateskill.
0:46.6	We talk a lot about this short story and about Mary Gateskill's response to the movie
0:51.9	secretary in this very conversation.
0:55.4	Mary stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader explores the intense relationship between
1:01.2	a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary who indulge in various types of BDSM activity
1:06.6	such as erotic spanking and pet play.
1:10.2	We talk about that a lot in this episode, so just know that that is coming.
1:15.9	We talk about things like self harm of these are various content warnings.
1:20.3	This is a heavy episode, but it's a romp still as we do.
1:25.4	And we talk about the dangers of taking movies as manuals of how to be out in the world.
1:33.6	And that theme is touched upon a lot in and is upcoming book Good Girl, which I've seen
1:39.9	described as a secretary meets flea bag.
1:43.8	So she was the perfect, the perfect person to have on to discuss this, discuss the themes,
1:50.6	discuss coming of age after seeing this movie.
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