The Fifty Shades trilogy-Part 1:Fifty Shades of Grey.

Rating: 6/10 (18 April 2015)

With having heard from friends online over the past few months about them being wimps over openly saying that they had viewed a "porn" film,I was caught by surprise,when a family friend recently revealed that he had actually enjoyed the title,which led to me getting ready to enter the "red room."
The plot:
As Washington State University prepares for the opening of a new building,English Lit student Anastasia "Ana" Steele is sent by the university's newspaper to interview a wealthy businessman,and major fund raiser towards the new building called Christian Grey.Entering Grey's high-rise office,Steele finds herself forgetting every question that she had planned,due to Grey having a mysterious allure around him.
Making her excuses and leaving,Grey decides that he can't let Steele slip away,which leads to Grey tracking Steele down at her DIY workplace.After buying some items from the DIY store,Grey and Steele soon start to hang out and become close friends.With Grey beginning to feel that Steele is someone he can trust, Christian Grey decides to reveal to Anastasia "Ana" Steele his secret BDSM life.
View on the film:
Trimming the (infamous) inner monologues from her adaptation of E.L. James book,the screenplay by Kelly Marcel remarkably keeps the film strongly connected to its erotica roots,thanks to Marcel making the sex scenes ones which don't stray into hollow porn territory ,but are actually a physical expression for the passion that Steele & Grey have for each other.Showing Grey to be a dominant,controlling force in the sex scenes,Marcel delicately releases Steele's psychological domination on Grey,as every hand of Steele's which Grey ties to the bed,leads to Grey (unintentionally) allowing Steele to step further into his personal space.
Backed by a silky-smooth soundtrack,director Sam Taylor-Johnson & cinematographer Seamus McGarvey splash the soulless decay of Greys business world across the screen,by leaving any primary colours behind to instead paint everything in pristine, bleached out black & whites.Focusing on the characters faces during the sex scenes,Taylor-Johnson slowly transforms the faded colours into burning reds and melancholy blues,as the wild,burning passion that Grey shows towards Steele in his BDSM lifestyle starts to spill over his life with a burning hot red intensity,whilst deep blues superbly show Steele's sadness over not being able to have her flowing love for Grey get fulfilled by him.
Entering the movie in a sharp suit,Jamie Dornan gives a fidgety performance as Grey,with Dornan chipping at Greys brash,dominant smile,which fades away as Steele becomes the dominating force in the emotional side of their relationship.Put up against Grey,the very pretty Dakota Johnson (who also appears naked in the movie) gives a marvellous performance that strikes Steele with a fine innocence rather than a sickly-sweet naiveté,thanks to Johnson balancing Steele's struggle to disconnect herself from the sex,with having a firm grip on being the most emotionally powerful of the two in a movie which is scatted with 50 shades of dazzling grey.