Intense and disturbing

Rating: 8/10 (16 February 2015)

While I acknowledge a legitimate feminist perspective for a review of this film, as well as one where people saw it for cheap thrills and were disappointed, I went without expectations and haven't read the books.
I simply found this film very intense in terms of the chemistry between Christian and Anna, and saw it as a story about a deeply hurt and disturbed man, and a woman who fell in love with him and was desperate to uncover his humanity while he was too frightened to reveal the deepest corners of his battered heart and soul.
I resist the urge to analyze this film(or most) more deeply - I see movies for their impact on my heart and soul rather than play movie critic, and this one affected me deeply.
I am looking forward to the sequel.
It's style reminded me of Twilight, a movie I also enjoyed, yet I know has been panned as teenage rubbish. I don't really care. I enjoy Twilight and its sequels as well, again for the intensity and chemistry between a man and a woman irrespective of how it was expressed.
If you want to be a feminist and or a movie critic, go for it. I don't really care. I enjoyed this film.