BDSM For Dummies

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2015)

I saw "Fifty Shades of Grey", starring Dakota Johnson-Need For Speed, 21 Jump Street_2012-FYI: she is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith; Jamie Dornan-The Fall_tv, Once Upon a Time_tv; Marcia Gay Harden-Into the Wild, Bad News Bears_2005 and Jennifer Ehle-Zero Dark Thirty, The King's Speech.
This is based on the book trilogy that is written by E.L. James, and no, I have not read the books. It is an "R" rated erotic movie that is based on an "NC-17" book about BDSM-if you do not know what those initials stand for, then you have probably not read the books, either. The director wanted to make the film "NC-17" but the studios wanted a lower "R" ratting to get more bodies into the seats of the theaters. Dakota plays an English college major that gets roped into doing an interview for her ailing roommate. Jamie plays the billionaire being interviewed and he has a rather kinky hobby; he is into BDSM-FYI: the first time this hobby is actually shown being engaged in, is around 45 minutes into the film. Once Dakota is introduced into the red room-that is his play room-she discovers more about sex than she had ever known-before meeting Jamie, she was a virgin. Jamie even has a contract that spells out all of his rules, some of which state that he does not sleep in the bed with her, after having sex-she has her own room to go to, for sleeping. Everything sexual is consensual, with safe words spelled out in the contract, but he is a control freak that wants things his way, whenever he says so-hence, the contract. The only problem is that Dakota wants to have a normal relationship-go to dinner or a movie-in between the bondage and spankings with her kinky boyfriend but he does not even like her to touch him, when they are not having sex. Now, before you start thinking that this is just a big budget porno movie, the sex scenes of the 2 hour movie only constitute about 15 minutes of the entire movie and his 'equipment' is not ever shown. Marcia plays Jamie's mother and Jennifer plays Dakota's mother. Beyonce' does one of the songs in the movie. The only problem I had was in the abrupt ending-but they could be just setting things up for a sequel, depending on how much this one makes. It's rated "R" for language and sexual situations-including nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 5 minutes. I enjoyed it enough that I would probably buy it on DVD.