But then he invites her to a masked ball his parents are throwing, and everything is okay again.ġ1. She is briefly upset that he knows her bank account information. He calls his office and has $24,000 direct-deposited into her checking account. He tells her to keep it, as he makes that much money every 15 minutes. The next day she asks him to take back a check he gave her for $24,000. (What did I tell you?) He replies, “Technically, I’ll be your boss’s boss’s boss.” Ana is momentarily unhappy about his insinuating himself into her work life. Christian explains, “He wants what’s mine.” That evening Christian tells her that he plans to buy the publishing house. Christian and Ana leave the bar and she tells him she’s upset with the way he insulted her boss. It is clear at this moment-and will only become clearer over time-that the movie considers these two words completely interchangeable.ĩ. At the bar they run into Christian, and he and Jack face off with proprietary zeal. Chief among them is Ana’s boss at the publishing house, Jack (Eric Johnson), who leers at her so ostentatiously that he might as well be wearing a T-shirt that says “sexual harasser.” He pressures her to go out for drinks.
As noted, one way the movie tries to make Christian seem less creepy is by making all the other men creepy, too. It seems to help that after the dinner date, Christian gives her a brand-new iPhone and MacBook, as if he were some creepy blend of Santa Claus and Steve Jobs.ħ. Nonetheless, Ana is clearly warming back up. Ana explains that she left him following last movie’s whipping in his Red Room of Pain, because “you were getting off on the pain you inflicted.” I feel obligated to note that this is the exact phrasing used by Steve Martin in the song “Dentist!” from Little Shop of Horrors, making Christian literally a knockoff of a parody of a sadist.Ħ. This will prove to be one of vanishingly few occasions on which she gets what she wants, rather than putting up token resistance and then letting Christian have his way.ĥ. She agrees, “but only because I’m hungry.” At the restaurant, when he orders steak for her, she contradicts him and asks for the quinoa salad instead. He shows up at the exhibit, buys all the photos, and begs Ana to go to dinner with him. Who knows what kind of pervy stalker might be buying those prints?Ĥ. Yet he fills his show with pictures of Ana without her knowledge or permission and then sells them for his own considerable profit. In theory, he’s supposed to be a good guy. This is a good moment to note that virtually all the men in this movie are gross (even when they’re not presented as such) and treat Ana as an object. Ana attends a photography exhibition by a friend, José (Victor Rasuk), only to find that, to her surprise, it is filled with wall-sized portraits of herself.ģa. Get used to this particular two-step when it comes to Ana’s tentative gestures toward almost-independence.ģ.
She briefly contemplates throwing them out, then changes her mind and keeps them. Accordingly, she receives a couple of dozen stunning white roses from Christian in congratulation. Ana, now graduated, has just gotten a job as an assistant at an independent Seattle book publisher. An S&M enthusiast, he made her sign a contract to be his “submissive.” Eventually, after a lot of tame bondage sex and one serious whipping, she left him.Ģ. In the last movie, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson), a virginal 21-year-old college student, was swept off her feet by Christian (Jamie Dornan), a 27-year-old billionaire entrepreneur with the abs of an underwear model. A brief catchup for those joining the story midstream. (Past examples of the genre included Lucy, Fantastic Four, The Happening, and The Gunman.) Those who would prefer to avoid spoilers should stop reading now those who want a sense of the awfulness to come, or would rather spend a few minutes reading about that awfulness than two hours experiencing it firsthand, read on.ġ.
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The result is that there is no one to mediate or improve Mitchell’s appallingly crass, childish, and retrograde exercise in wish fulfillment.Ī movie this bad deserves to have its flaws enunciated clearly, so what follows is one in a periodic series of spoilereviews. Banks), has been replaced by Niall Leonard, a television writer who also happens to be Mitchell’s husband. This time out, Taylor-Johnson has been replaced with gun-for-hire James Foley, best known for directing Glengarry Glen Ross a very long time ago meanwhile, the previous screenwriter, Kelly Marcel ( Saving Mr.
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