British author E. L. James, “Fifty Shades” trilogy writer, goes into explicit detail about the revelations of a control freak, (literally), and how he revolves in his own self-contained world of gain, pain, virtue and pleasure.
Whereas, “Fifty Shades of Grey” director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, shows us the element of the nature, environment, and who Christian Grey represents as an alpha male, dominant, controlling man.
What the movie did for me is prepare me for reading the books.
Many books have had this opposite effect where you have to see the visual after reading the words. The movie leaves you in a place where the book can pick up and continue from.
Due to the graphic nature of some of the wording in the book, I can only express a mild explanation of what my eyes “swallowed whole” in order for me to share with you the exact key-points that tight-rope walk entertainment, adult-rated situations and conversation(s) suitable to be read when the children are silently asleep. Although much of what’s contained in the book was cut out for the script in the movie, (and had to be), you get the full gist of what the actors portray when “scenes change.”
A “mirror window” is opened into the exotic, erotic lifestyle practice(s) that imitate art, culture, desire, temptation, emotion, control, power, money, sex, and definitely domination.
To say the least, it was pleasing to be shocked, awed, wowed and taught something while watching the movie but, the three books take the ice-cream and the cake.
My personal suggestion is to have an open mind and not be rigid to how others do their thing. Reading the book allowed my imagination to wonder without added “audience inputs of noise and interference.”
In the time frame it took to read the books and watch the movie, I can say my mind has been opened and my perspective has been rattled. The experience was virtually “S&M for my cerebral cortex.”