Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast: Dakota Johnson, James Dornan, Jennifer Ehle
Time: 125 minutes
Anastasia Steele is a 21-year-old
English literature student who fills in for her roommate who is sick with the
flu in an assignment to interview business mogul Christian Grey for the college
newspaper. After this first encounter, Grey and Steele start falling for each other
and start engaging deeper and deeper into a sadomasochistic relationship that
will bring them quite far off the path they both expected for themselves.
This film is inspired by a series of books that became quite the phenomenon among my family members. Personally, I did not read them beyond excerpts found here and there. These passages almost made me quit reading altogether. I can be as kinky as the next guy in the right circumstances, but I’d rather be whipped than read bad literature.
As far as the film goes, the first installment is an improvement upon the book, but that is not saying much. The acting is not very good and the story is silly. The characters come off as so fake and unbelievable. The books were all made to make old ladies feel all tingly in their naughty parts without the guilt of actual porn. The film has a bit of sexiness to it, but it not enough to make it good cinema.
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