The plot of “Fifty Shades Darker” is just as muddled and unclear as the directing. With so much back and forth, it’s hard to know if the audience is supposed to root for Ana and Christian or see them as tragic characters. It’s only about what each one can get from their relationship. There is no meaningful discussion between Ana and Christian about the give and take, the equal responsibility of loving one another as significant others.

Sex does not equal love, and love does not equal sex.Īccording to “Fifty Shades Darker,” the meaning of love is breaking all moral boundaries, allowing anything to happen and having as much carnal sex as possible. The word “Love” is spoken only a handful of times but never lived out in the characters’ actions, no matter how passionate their sex life is. Ana continually contradicts herself by giving a strong “No” to Christian’s controlling, stalker-like advances but soon emits a passionate “Yes” to whatever suggestion Christian gives - even if their subsequent actions go against everything she was resisting only moments before. However, in the next scene, the couple engages in the erotic behavior they had just said they didn’t want anymore. Just like the male protagonist’s surname, the morals and message of this film are decidedly grey.Īt one point in the movie, Christian claims he wants to quit his dominant lifestyle, and Ana says she wants to help him. “What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more.” Many are familiar with these lyrics by Haddaway, and “Fifty Shades Darker” is a direct embodiment of those very words.

The two finally meet and once more enter into a relationship, this time with “no secrets, no punishments and no contracts.”Īs Ana and Christian grow closer, Ana learns more and more about Christian’s troubled past and just what it takes - physically and emotionally - to be involved with someone as demanding and complicated as Christian Grey. But her peace is intermittently broken by gifts from Grey, who desperately wants her back.

Having escaped the possessive Christian Grey, Anastasia “Ana” Steele is once again living a peaceful life, happily working at a publishing company.

Ending of fifty shades of grey movie