50 Shades of Domestic Abuse

[solarbird]

Those of us who have been saying that 50 Shades of Grey is domestic abuse aren't talking about the - rather badly done, from what I'm being told - BDSM. We're talking about the psychotic emotional abuse that underlies the entire relationship.

This reviewer gets it.

I screwed up. I screwed up big time. I went into this film thinking it would be two hours of B-grade hilarity about bondage that I could make fun of. It was actually two hours of incredibly disturbing content about an emotionally abusive relationship that left me really, really shaken.

And now I’m embarrassed that I ever joked about it.

-- Rosie Reviews: 50 Shades of Grey