Offensive in most regards

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2015)

**Potential spoilers**
It may be some seriously low-hanging fruit, but I feel like this movie is the perfect example for what happens when virtually every single one of the seven Catholic media keys are ignored in a production. As the name "Catholic" implies, these keys are universally applicable and not limited in any way to explicitly Christian media. As one could probably glean from a plot synopsis alone, Fifty Shades of Grey misses the mark on basically all of these guidelines for wholesome media. The first and most egregious offense is clearly against the dignity of the human person, which the third key states must be upheld in a quality piece of media; the movie practically centers around the degradation and use of a young woman by a sadistic and abusive man, and in their portrayal of this, those responsible for the film botched any attempt to preserve the truth of this type of relationship (abandoning the fourth key) in trying to glorify the BDSM lifestyle. The film was anything but inspiring, neglecting the fifth key entirely and replacing it with a despair and use-centered ideology of sexual relationships. This list could go and on, but for the sake of brevity, we shall leave it here. Hopefully this film serves as a warning to other producers and directors alike – ignoring these guidelines can be disastrous for a movie's integrity as art and entertainment.