The “illustrious” reputation of Fifty Shades of Gray, the most famous erotic book in the world last year, easily attracted Vietnamese readers to the book series. Right on the cover of this Vietnamese edition is the words “Readers consider before reading”. The recommendation line is not redundant. Because after the first few dozen pages introducing the circumstances of the meeting of the two main characters: Christian Gray and Anna Steele, the pages describing the bedroom story and mutual physical desire between these two names continuously spiraled. each written page.
As a person with a dark childhood, young billionaire Christian Gray is always obsessed with sex. He cannot love in the normal way and has a preference for having physical relationships with girls in BDSM (a form of role-playing or lifestyle choice between two or more individuals to create tension, pleasure and release). sexual escape through painful and powerful experiences).
For Grey, there is nothing wrong with sex. It is a normal and creative thing between two people behind the door of a private room. The more successful Christian Gray is in the marketplace, the more he indulges in light-hearted adventures. With ravishingly handsome appearance, Gray always plays the role of ruler, the one who imposes on his partner. To Grey, girls are just “Submissives”. That’s why no one can stay long with the billionaire. The rules he sets out for the game only turn him into a sick, terrifying person in their eyes.
But when graduate student Anna Steelee comes into Gray’s life, her purity, honesty, innocence, and disobedient nature cause Gray’s inherent rules to be shaken. Steele’s pure, safe world also shakes. Her destructive power when hitting Steele can be compared to a large meteorite hitting the earth. The consequences it left behind were deep wounds in both of their souls. Gray led Steele – from a demure and clueless girl – into a maze of sensuality.
On that maze, Steele also gradually discovered pieces of the sad past of the person she loved, the things that had caused him to behave strangely throughout his young life. Many times, readers only see that all problems between them can only be solved with sex. But at the bottom of despair, and when their bodies were exhausted, two young people realized they still had to learn how to love each other, with their hearts, not just with their feelings.
Through the Vietnamese adaptation by translator Tuong Vy, the elements of romance and sex blend together sweetly, although many pages of this work may surprise readers because of the boldness in the depiction of sexuality. .
Fifty Shades of Gray was also licensed by Hollywood to bring to the big screen, promising to produce a hot “blockbuster” love movie. More than 10 major film studios have “sweated and shed tears” to get the rights to adapt this book. And Universal Pictures and Focus Features won the rights to make the film. However, while the movie “giants” are focusing on big projects, many fans of the book cannot stand the wait and have edited different segments into adapted movies using the correct lyrics. dialogue and context.
