In these minutes, BDSM went from an intimate and stimulating experience to an abusive one. Over the course of a few minutes, though, everything we had come to know about the softer side of BDSM was shattered as Anastasia is frozen in pain under the crack of a belt. The bulk of the film introduced us to this world in the uncomfortable setting of a crowded theater, and it glamorized the dominant-submissive relationship by appealing to more female-friendly sex scenes. BDSM is already unfamiliar territory for many of us (at least, those of us who aren’t hiding our own sex dungeons in the back closet). If there are no more installments of the Fifty Shades film franchise, which at this point seems unlikely, the film’s final sequence doesn’t quite fit with everything else we saw. While both Johnson and Dornan have signed on for more Fifty Shades fun, Universal was holding off on making an official decision until the box office results were in. However, we also have to look at this as its own film. In comparison to some of the more extended scenes, this was a refreshing break. The drawn-out details were unnecessary, and audiences could already predict Anastasia’s inevitable breakdown in both the tears trickling down her face as the elevator doors closed and how she reacted to most things over the course of the film. Looking at Fifty Shades in terms of the larger three-film storyline, this was the right call. James was afforded a large amount of creative control over the film, and, as such, the film’s ending was the one she fought to use. Translating this ending to the screen was one of the more controversial points of contention between James and the film’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson. James extended this final interaction to show Anastasia telling Christian, 'I can’t do this.' It then describes how she drives home in tears before collapsing onto her bed for her full emotional breakdown. However, this was more or less what happened in the novel, disregarding some extra details. After watching this two-hour love story play out, everything quickly fell apart in the last half hour. Understandably, this abrupt ending was a source of confusion among some moviegoers. The last words they exchange to one another before the doors shut are each other’s names, reminiscent of the first time they meet in the beginning of the film. He even attempts to run to her before she leaves in the elevator, but she forcefully commands him to stop. The next morning, Anastasia leaves Christian seemingly for good. When she tells Christian that she’s fallen in love with him, he responds by saying that she can’t do so. Later that evening, Christian attempts to comfort her as she lays crying in the room allotted to her as a submissive.

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