In reality, meeting Christian has made Ana increasingly isolated from the people in her life, until all she has is him and some really nice shoes. Bizarrely, Fifty Shades takes this abject condition of alienation and presents it instead as a transcendent, desirable one. In fact, it’s more about the way that people are cut off from each other and their own humanity. But that’s a textbook definition of alienation, not the love story this is supposed to be. He wants to have complete and total domination over every aspect of his life, including the people in it. We are told on numerous occasions that Christian is a “control freak” – an assessment which couldn’t be more apt. She has become a commodity not only a sex slave, but an actual slave too. By signing the contract she is accepting that she is Christian’s property to do with as he chooses. The contract stipulates that Ana not only be the submissive in her BSDM relationship, but that she eat, wear and do whatever Christian wants outside of the bedroom as well. The contract in question (which is freakishly long by the way) not only lays out guidelines for the workings of Ana’s new kinky sex life, it extends to her actual life too. Oh for shame!įor a film that’s supposed to be about sex, Fifty Shades shows more boardroom than bedroom. If she refuses to obey, the hypnotic world of Cartier, Cristal and Chanel will be snatched away until all she’s left with is her normal sized apartment and standard car.
Ana and Christian’s entire relationship is based around the Stuff he gives her in exchange for her complete submission, be it an Audi or an orgasm.
If she were alive, there’s no doubt that Ayn Rand would be front-row and salivating when, in justifying his expensive appetites, Christian Grey quotes industrial tycoon Andrew Carnegie: ‘A man who acquires the ability to take possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.’ Yes, Rand would be salivating, because once you strip it down, what Fifty Shades of Grey really is is the one percent’s (wet) dream.įifty Shades is a film devoted to consumption. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS MORE ABOUT THE MONEY THAN THE SEX, SAYS BETH PERKIN
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