Releasing the first film titled “Fifty Shades Of Grey”, the series “50 Shades of Grey” has received many mixed opinions about its bold hot scenes. However, there is a reality that many viewers spent money just to watch a series of eye-catching sexual gestures and forgot about other aspects of the movie.
Since its release, the novel series 50 Shades of Gray by British female writer E.L. James has become a global bestseller. Following that success, three films of the series of the same name were also released, including Fifty Shades Of Gray (2015), Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018). However, after being adapted into a film, 50 Shades of Gray became the focus of criticism from international film commentators in many different aspects.
First of all, the problem is the movie script. From a hugely popular novel series, the adaptation of 50 Shades of Gray into a film cannot help but make the audience look forward to it. But perhaps for experts it will become a cinematic disaster. Putting aside the past two films, just Fifty Shades Freed, which was released in theaters on Valentine’s Day, has received a lot of criticism. The New York Daily News wrote: “Just tie me up, hold me down. Make me watch a bad movie. Just don’t have to watch another Fifty Shades Freed.” Or Rolling Stone magazine also commented very frankly: “With this movie, we have had to experience the worst level. Being beaten by whips, chains or sadistic tools is not as miserable as the feeling of torture when having to watch this movie.” Not stopping there, the actors’ performances, or BDSM (sexual violence) scenes are also topics that have been “dissected” and garnered many mixed opinions.
Becoming a “contrarian” to the professional world in general, and at the same time being mentioned as one of the names of the Golden Raspberry Awards, 50 Shades of Gray still blatantly achieved a “huge” total revenue of about 1 billion USD After three films were released. The question here is, what caused this contradiction? That is the audience. Despite the criticism and criticism from the media and critics, the film is still welcomed by viewers in very unique ways.
At the present time, the adult film industry is developing strongly in many countries around the world. Therefore, the boundary between films containing artistic hot scenes and pornographic films cannot be more fragile. From here, the audience coming to the cinema is also clearly divided into many different components. Some are fans of the 50 Shades of Gray novel series, some out of curiosity and the rest want to see hot scenes publicly. In fact, people who go to the theater mostly just want to satisfy their inner curiosity or watch 50 Shades of Gray as an erotic film labeled as art.
Although it received a lot of criticism for the high-frequency sex scenes of the two characters Ana (Dakota Johnson) and Christian (Jamie Dornan), that does not mean that the film has no plot or nothing. worth watching besides the hot scene. Seriously, it is not a coincidence that E.L. James’ novel became a global best seller, vulgar sentences that simply describe sex would not be able to do that. And it is no coincidence that Fifty Shades of Gray was able to maintain its performance at the box office throughout the three parts of the series, the hot scene could not retain the audience for that long even though it was a characteristic part of the film’s reputation. all three movies.
If we are a true audience and come to the movie with the mindset of enjoying a work of art, we will truly live with the beautiful love between Ana and Christian. What the audience sees on the surface is just a love story between a prince and Cinderella, but no Cinderella will have to “tame” her prince like Ana. It’s not just the road from Fifty Shades Of Gray to Fifty Shades Freed, it’s a journey to bring a man like Christian back to his true self, live life differently and learn how to love someone. actually, not owning them. Ana changed the young billionaire’s life, together they overcame many difficulties to stay together for the rest of their lives. So is this sweet love story worth more attention than those hot scenes?
