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Film Review : Nineteen Shades Of Grey

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Film Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
Directed by Sam Taylor, a 2015 American romantic and erotic film Fifty Shades of Grey gained a huge box office success earning over 571 million dollars worldwide (Mendelson). The film is written by British Author E. L James and among the star cast are included Dakota Johnson playing as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan playing as Christian Grey (James). This essay analyzes the film and characters in terms of their relationship and different features of the story line. The story revolves around the sadomasochistic relationship between a young college graduate, Anastasia Steele and young and rich business magnate Christian Grey (James 2-20).
The initial sparks of the steamy relationship begin in the …show more content…

For Christian, the relationship was neither friendship nor love, but he was more interested in a BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism & masochism) sort relationship in which he wanted Ana to play as his submissive and he as a dominant for fulfilling his sexual desires (Reenen 223-233). The film has been criticized by many feminists as it depicted male as a dominant and controlling person in a relationship and female as a weak a clumsy personality.
Christian wanted to control everything according to his own desires, and a giant agreement containing details about their sexual relationship was put forward for Ana. The agreement contained the safe limits and words and details regarding the sexual acts the two would take part in (Butt 62-76). The movie follows Ana’s decision that whether she would be able to sign the contract which is against her desires and expectations for love and sex or whether she would be able to move away from Christian as a consequence of not signing the lengthy contract.
The characters in the movie have used simple language and short sentences, and this attracts a broader audience, and the movie provides a fast and romantic plot. The movie is for adult population and contains more or less four to five sex scenes and the patronizing storyline, and corny dialogues grab attention of audience, but the movie is also criticized by many (Steussy). At the end of the movie, Christian punished

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