
Like most healthy relationships in 2015, their professional encounter progresses into expensive gifts and stalking. Christian comes off as controlling and douchey in the interview, but he wears the hell out of a suit so obviously it’s time to fall in love. What does Grey Industries make? I don't know – cash-money evidently. She meets Christian Gray, 27-year-old billionaire CEO of Gray Industries, while interviewing him for a student publication. The protagonist of film is Anastasia Steele (Get it? Her last name is a shade of gray), a virginal senior in college. The fantasy that whatever worthless individual you’re having relations with who won’t even take you to Red Lobster will realize you’re a precious birthday gemstone and whisk you away to Venice for a wedding that rivals Amal Clooney’s is a pipe dream, but a compelling one. More importantly, the narrative indulges women’s deepest adolescent fantasy/delusion that you can make a man who doesn’t want a relationship change his mind.

So why is it so popular? As scintillating and boundary pushing as the movie is not ( Game of Thrones is more graphic), it presents an opportunity for women to enjoy celebrating their sexuality in a safe dark public space and explore any latent curiosity about butt plugs. Voyeurism aside, I was disappointed to discover that this tale was not one of an inexperienced girl who embarks on a romance with a successful, hot, and kinky man, but of a girl who settles for a quasi-relationship, or situationship - as one of my favorite blogs BGAE calls it - with a successful, hot, man who is cray cray.


There were a few hot scenes and a lot of talking, so if you’re single and perverted like me and were hoping to live vicariously through the big screen on Valentine’s Day, this film may not have made the cut. The much anticipated film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Gray is not the hedonistic raunchfest it was purported to be.
