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
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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
The audience of this movie has a very wide range. However, I think majority of the viewers
Anastasia is forced to interview Christian Grey for her roommate, Kat, because she had fallen ill. When Mr. Grey meets Anastasia, he is intrigued with her. He then starts to make appearances at her work to buy different items, which come to find out is used sexually for binding and arousal. She is skeptical when he shows up to her hardware store because of his status and wealth. He asks her out for coffee but only for him to draw away from her afterwards. She
In the play the men are made out as bad guys and Ana is waiting to hear from NYU through financial aid. More so in the movie it is Ana’s mom who does not want her to go away to college and make a better life for her only because she want’s Ana to grow up how she grew up. Ana strives to be an independent woman who wants to find love. But her mom just wants her to find a husband to take care of her.
Bertolucci confessed: “I think the young people who saw it after the ban was lifted were a bit disappointed; they thought it was a very chaste movie.”8
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The film has a clever dialogue which resonated with young movie lover that found it to be exciting and
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With reference to relevant cultural theories analyse the representation of sexuality in a film/television text of your choice.
Making her find a kind of comfort and shelter she has never had before. Then Christian gets very persistent about taking her out for coffee, and every time she tries to say no he pleas with her to say yes. Due to this Anastasia sees this as, he wants to really spend time with you and feels even more special. When really Christian is just hook line and sinking her into his plan, which Anastasia is 10 steps behind. Even though, he doesn’t let her catch on to it at all. Instead he shows how much more interested he is in her by wishing her good luck on her exams before they part. In Anastasia mind, it seem that he takes so much interest in her and even paid attention to what they were talking about. This is how any basic abusive relationship starts, very slow and romantic.
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