Fifty shades of Greyish

Rating: 4/10 (14 February 2015)

Like at least half of the couples from the entire planet, I and my boyfriend went to watch the contradictory "Fifty shades of Grey".I decided to go there with an open mind as I had read both positive and negative reviews. I didn't have great expectations and I used to joke by saying to people that I was just curious how it feels to watch porn in a full cinema hall. The truth is I really wanted to see if the book and film do have substance or an underlying message, a sort of philosophy or at least a coherent story. It all started nice, very usual, with the two meeting, the flickers in the protagonists' eyes, Anastasia's shyness and Grey's boldness. The first part was entertaining - if we try to leave aside the boring clichés- because of some cute and funny moments that got people giggling.But as the film advanced, the cute funny moments vanished and the clichés started to pile up to build a weird and sick story that can hardly be called a story.
Mr Grey, one of the most wanted men on the planet, falls in love with the cute little student, Anastasia, who is, accidentally, a virgin. Seriously? Of course it was that kind of romantic "love at first sight", and Anastasia couldn't stop thinking about him and he always shows up when she's least expecting it. Oh, come on!
These people really got on my nerves. It's clear that Grey wants the girl because she's the "rare bird" and he's used to get everything he wants. All he does throughout the film is psychologically pressing Anastasia to surrender to his will and so be his sexual slave. And there's also Anastasia who knows that if she doesn't agree to "play" with him, they won't ever see each other. So, we have a guy who is sentimentally blackmailing a girl to be able to put into practice his sick sexual perversities.
I really regret having watched this on "Valentine's Day". I've searched for love in here. I have. And I have only found a maimed specimen of it. But thinking better about it, I realize that maybe this is what "love" means in this century: sex&money&perversities.
There were also a lot of scenes that I've found creepily hilarious such as the one in which Anastasia is spanked by Grey. Also, the explanation of Grey's behaviour - that is his tormented childhood and adolescence- felt very unnatural, very clichéd. He struggles to look charming and mysterious but I don't buy it! I don't believe him! And he didn't make me care about him.
I went to watch this because I was curious. I don't regret doing it (except that, as I said before, it had to happen on Valentine's day). Anyway, while I heard some people went out of the cinema hall ready to spicy up their intimate lives, I felt the opposite effect on me: disgust for sex ( when is implies disrespect and blackmail).