Fifty Shades of Gray: Interesting film, interesting reactions.

Rating: 6/10 (14 April 2015)

I'm kind of a movie's shark: sometimes I watch films simply because they are there, without knowing what they are about or who made them I eat them exactly like a shark. In these cases it is only after the end (and only if I got interested) that I go check about the authors, the reviews and so on
The present flick was one of those. And after watching the movie (which I found interesting) I went on IMDb and found that pages and pages in the review section were filled by angry or disgusted people who rated the movie 1! I'm talking about more than 1.000 reviews (no joke) which is without any doubt the reaction of scandalized souls. And this is the first interesting thing.
The second is that all the authors were female (E.L. James who wrote the novel, Kelly Marcel who adapted it and Samantha Taylor-Johnson who directed it). And all of them already gave proof to be fine artists (and the present movie was not bad at all in its script, acting or direction). So, much of the criticism should be re-examined with a cooler mind.
Finally, although this surely is an unrealistic film with unrealistic characters, it is essentially a love story and characters' unrealism is not significantly different from that of Oliver Barrett IV and Jennifer Cavalleri (remember Love Story?). Those two were separated by leukemia, the present ones by sex. Which author chose the most gentle and optimistic narrative element on your opinion?