Fifty Shades Darker Analysis

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In theaters now, 'Fifty Shades Darker' is ravaged by flaccid performances from both Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson on top of a narrative that is so incoherent that it will leave audiences unsatisfied. Summary When we last left our love birds, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) left Christian (Jamie Dornan) after an unpleasant experience in his sex dungeon. Apparently, it dawned on her at that moment that a man with any room he refers to as his "dungeon" has got some deep-seated anger issues (eye roll). Ana now works at a publishing house as a personal assistant for Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson) who is doing a terrible job hiding his desire to sleep with her. However, this narrative is all about Christian begging his way back into Anastasia's life. …show more content…

The source material (and I use that term very loosely) requires that the two leads have some spark or chemistry on screen and none of that is evident in the film. These are supposed to be two people whose passion for one another is so profound that they can't be denied the company of each other for a second. When Christian is groveling at Anastasia's feet for her to take him back, it sounded rote and monotonous. Where was the emotion? Where was the passion? This is the love of your life! When Anastasia learns that Christian's helicopter had crashed, all we got was crocodile tears. Where is the sorrow? Where is grief? The love of your life might have just died, and all we got was a few tears. There was a reason why fans weren't happy with the casting choices, and it appears the fans were …show more content…

Foley has a strong sense of where the focus should lie in a particular scene which didn't seem to be the case with Johnson. Johnson utilized many wide shots so that he could capture the brutality of these sexual acts that Ana and Christian were engaged in. In short time it became off-putting and detracted from the film. Foley placed the emphasis not on the acts as much as the emotion (or in this movie's case lack there of) so the focus wasn't so much on the act as much as the person. Where Foley missed the mark was how he edited the film. He shot both Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed at the same and included way too much of the wooing between Christian and Ana and could have easily cut a good twenty minutes from the

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