Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down

This week I saw the movie Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. This movie is about a mental patient, Ricky, who is released from the mental institution after being deemed "cured". Once he is released he wants to have a normal life with Marina, a girl he met when he escaped from the hospital one time. Marina is an actress and former porn star. Ricky finds Marina through a magazine announcing the start of her next film. Ricky sneaks into the studio where Marina is working on filming her new movie wearing a disguise. He tries to catch Marina’s attention but she dismisses him. Before he leaves the set Ricky steals Marina’s keys to her apartment. After the filming is done Ricky follows Marina to her apartment. At the apartment, Ricky rings the doorbell and Marina answers the door but Ricky shoves his way in making Marina scream for help. Ricky headbutts Marina to shut her up. Marina wakes up with tape on her mouth and her hands bound with rope. Ricky notices that Marina is awake and explains to her that he kidnapped her in hopes that she will fall in love with him and then get married and have children. Marina says that she will never love him but Ricky does not give up and keeps her bound. In pain, Marina persuades Ricky to takes her to the doctor to get pain meds. But Ricky does not leave her side at the doctor’s office so she cannot run away or get help. They can’t get the pain meds at the pharmacy so Ricky goes to get them from a drug dealer except rather than paying he attacks the drug dealer to get the pain meds and runs away. He comes back with the pain meds only to discover that Lola, Marina’s sister has visited the apartment and left a note. Becoming worried about being discovered Ricky moves Marina into her next-door neighbor’s apartment. Ricky then goes back to the street to get something when he is spotted by the drug dealer who he attacked and then gets brutally beaten by the drug dealer. Meanwhile Marina sees this as her only chance to escape and tries but then Ricky comes back all bloody and bruised and she doesn’t have the heart to leave him like that. She cleans him up and bandages his cuts and suddenly kisses him realizing she has fallen in love with him. They then decide to take a trip to Ricky’s village. When Ricky goes to steal a car for them Marina tells Ricky to tie her up so she won’t escape. Unfortunately, while Ricky is gone Lola comes back and sees Marina all tied up. She rescues her and Marina goes with Lola but later she realizes that she wants to go back to Ricky. Lola drives to Ricky’s hometown and see him there in the ruins of his family home. Then the three all climb back into the car and drive off singing together like a family.