Indecent Proposal -1993-

But as a , it is flawless. Adrian Lyne made a career out of middle-class nightmares, and this is his most sophisticated one. It doesn’t celebrate the affair, nor does it fully condemn it. It simply watches, with a voyeur’s patience, as two people learn that in the arithmetic of love, there is no calculator.

Furthermore, the film inadvertently captured the rise of transactional relationships. In the decade that would give us Friends , Seinfeld , and the beginning of internet dating, Indecent Proposal stood as a warning: Some goods, once traded, cannot be returned in mint condition. indecent proposal -1993-

Modern reappraisals are slightly kinder, noting the film’s cultural impact and its honest (if melodramatic) look at marital fractures. But as a , it is flawless

But they never touched each other the same way again. It simply watches, with a voyeur’s patience, as