Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson Written by: Kelly Marcel
Release Year : 2015
Rating : 6.5/10
I am sure some of you might have heard about it enough. But having read the book and seen the movie recently, I wanted to talk about it over here as well.
Thinking back about a year ago, when the casting and directing started, It was all very exciting as well as complicated. Yes, looking at you Hunnam. But after both Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan have been casted, I was happy with its choice.
We all have heard what the book covers. Now, it`s not necessary important to share the same interest, yet I think we all share one. Sex is important in a relationship. But thats not where it starts here.
Ana (Johnson) playing a college student in her last year, very naiv as well as unexperience in some sort, can`t hide herself any longer, as soon as she meets Christian Grey (Dornan) the very rich, handsome looking owner of a billion dollar company, owned by him.
That interview changes everything for both sides. Grey is showing his affection with buying Ana simply a MacBook, amazing first editions and in the end a car.
Oh and yes, I did notice her flipphone (I serisouly hoped for the BlackBerrys myself ) All that, just to convince her to "sign the contract" to, simply enough, be his submissive. Now early stages, that goes as far as spanking, slaps on her bum or tying up her hands with his tie. All very sexy so far. As Ana is slowly adapting to her new life, she grows in character, while discovering her power over him. Which I think she shows expecially while not siging the contract, which in the end, as Christian but as well, is slightly over due.
I think thats the most important part to talk about the movie is less about the sex, or the amount of sex they have, its much more about the characters as well as their commitment to the relationship, or their behaviour in it.
Think about it, almost no one is bothered about the actual sex( we have seen t all thanks to HBO )people only talk about her naivity as well as her being quickly drawn into something she never experience, having lost control and handing it to him, she is not a modern feminist. Which is a spicy topic nowadas, now you can say it is anti feminist, to like the movie, its against independence of woman in some sort.
But I think she actually grows as a character.
If you follow the story from the begining to the end, she is not as naiv I would say as in the beginning? She begins to make her own choice, is that in staying with him, leaving him, or simply enough in changing her style and that not according to him.
Would I say it`s a love story? Maybe, because I do think both love each other, maybe first blindly, maybe not in a healthy way, but what love is?
So after a long opinion of mine. I dont think we should or can take it to seriously, then again, who am I to judge. Over all I would blame the poor writing for the bad reviews, or the bad vibe. The scenery as well as the costume design are fantastic, Seattle, is yes, shown not correctly on the poster, is stunning to look at. Yet if I look back, its the words that mattered and would have made the movie a great one.
What`s your thought on the movie?
Hope you had a great weekend :)
B
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