In short: Kelly Marcel (screenplay)and E.L. James (novel) you could do better and Dakota, good luck with that new agent.

Rating: 2/10 (4 February 2017)

I love movies and as such it was entertaining to a certain degree and shooting scenes as well as camera angles were well placed; they kept me basically going to watch the movie to the end. Unfortunately, being a psychotherapist myself, I missed out on the why for Christian Grey's background for his ' pleasure ' phobia and having a short introduction of his mother I missed the plot regarding Christian's torment completely. I could understand Anna's attraction to the man that Christian portrayed but her misunderstanding of his pleasure for punishment unfortunately only came out only a little at the end. Controlling men aren't always the beefed up tough guys you see in the movies who yell and scream to get their way. They can be the soft-spoken boy next door or the well-educated, amiable extrovert. That was the only part well introduced in the movie. Christian uses his methods to train Anna like a puppy. When she obeys, she gets a treat. When she disobeys, she get nothing — or worse, punishment. I was continuing to watch the movie in order to find out what made Christian the man he decided to become? Perhaps, during an his younger years he was made to feel powerless through the process of his parent/s using him to compensate for their own sense of powerlessness. Not only had his own boundaries been violated; the parent's own need to feel a sense of power had also being denied. Sometimes this continues into the next generation and again into the next. But no, the movie did not give me an answer. There are many reasons why men become controlling and abusive and the only poor reason in this film seemed to have been that Christian had grown into a rich man to compensate for something he had missed out in his childhood. Again no scene in this movie made this transparent. On the whole, I found this movie not the slightest entertaining and in a way very noneducational. I left the theater with that nagging question: Who puts this out and thinks it could be a success?The movie was nominated after all for achievement in music and two nominations for performing ' Anna ' as breakthrough performance and as an actress most in need for a new agent; the awards went on for worst movie of the year, worst picture, worst actor, worst screenplay, worst director and so on.