Fifty Shades of Grey: The story of our age?
- By Heiko Khoo
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Actors Jamie Dornan (L) and Dakota Johnson as "Fifty Shades of Grey" characters Christian Grey and Ana Steele on the November 2013 cover of Entertainment |
The release of the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey" was always going to cause controversy. It is already banned in some countries on religious grounds and faces a campaign of hostility or allegedly glorifying abusive relationships.
However, it is certain to become a massive hit and the surrounding furore will certainly not do it any harm at the box office.
The film is based on a global best seller of the same name written by E.L.James (pen name of British author Erika Mitchell), which is part of a trilogy of erotic romantic novels along with Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
It charts the course of a sadomasochistic sexual relationship between two Americans - a young female student, Anastasia Steel, and Christian Grey, a handsome but controlling business tycoon.
She interviews him for a student newspaper and they hook up, but as the story progresses he uses his enormous wealth to impress, entice and seduce her into his lair. He transports her in his personal corporate jets; he stalks her and often turns up unexpectedly, and he lavishes gifts on her.
He takes her virginity and exploits her innocence, in order to get her to sign a bondage and sadomasochistic (BDSM) contractual agreement, under which, he becomes her master and she his sexual slave. She eventually agrees so as to help explore her own sexual desires, even though her hopes continually return to the idea of a closer romantic attachment to the tortured soul of Grey, who, it transpires, was sexually abused when he was young.
A couple of years ago, the book seemed to be literally everywhere, attracting a mostly avid female audience. However, I think there are three main problems with it.
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