Fifty Shades Of Grey Essay

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The film industry plays a major role in today’s society in regards to what viewers see in their life, both sexually and non-sexually. The cinematic industry currently has created numerous films concerning the dominant versus the submissive relationship. Laura Mulvey wrote an essay expressing the way a film “plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle.” In the movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, the main character, Christian Grey, is a wealthy businessman who is later known to be involved in dominant and submissive relationship. Christian Grey involves himself in a relationship with the female lead, Anastasia Steele. The two enter into a bondage and discipline …show more content…
“Conventional close-ups of legs or a face integrate into the narrative a different mode of eroticism. One part of a fragmented body destroys the illusion of depth demanded by the narrative, it gives flatness, the quality of a cut out or icon rather than verisimilitude to the screen” (Mulvey). There are two main scenes this topic relates to in the featured film. The scene Christian and Anastasia meet and the scene when Ana leaves Christian. The camera is continually at eye level leading the viewer to see the scene from that character’s point-of-view. The camera switches between the views of Anastasia to the view of Christian. The audience can see the sexual tension between the two characters and the stress Christian has caused Ana towards the end of the film. The depth of the shot is a close up, allowing the viewers to feel like they are apart of the movie and they can feel the emotion as well. Throughout both of these scenes the camera remains stationary. The camera does not leave any of the characters out. Throughout both of these scenes the spectators can see “pleasure in looking has been split between active/ male and passive/ female” (Mulvey). Also, the audience sees the “determined male gaze projecting its fantasy onto the female figure” (Mulvey). At the end of the film the audience knows that Christian still wants Anastasia, but they are unsure is Ana still wants
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