(Check out the editor’s last name and guess whether he’s a good guy.)Ĭhristian offers himself to Ana as if he were a new generation of cell-phone plan-“no rules, no punishment,” no contract. (She had negotiated his contract of submission, but then repudiated it.) Now, in the new movie, the blank billionaire is back-showing up with romance in mind just as Ana, newly equipped with her English degree, begins her dream job as the assistant to Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), the fiction editor of Seattle Independent Press. James’s erotic-fiction franchise, Christian Grey is in desperate need of therapy, and, if there were any identifiably human substance to the new film, his seeking it would be central to the plot.Īt the end of the first installment, “ Fifty Shades of Grey,” Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) couldn’t abide the punishment that the dominant Christian (Jamie Dornan) inflicted on her in his “red room of pain,” his gothic chamber of sexual paraphernalia, and so she walked out. In “Fifty Shades,” the second film adapted from E. Night Shyamalan’s “ Split”: both films feature the flashback of a tormented man, in which his early-childhood self cowers under a bed while an adult hunts for him. In “Split,” the protagonist, Kevin Wendell Crumb, is getting therapy-in Shyamalan’s angry view, too little, too late. The opening of “Fifty Shades Darker” echoes a key scene in M.
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