The above quote is from the wikipedia article on Fifty Shades of Grey.
Last saturday was the premier of the movie adaptation for the first book in the Fifty Shades trilogy – Fifty Shades of Grey. I considered going to watch the movie but as I haven’t read the books, I felt that it would be wrong to do so.
What I find interesting is how much this book has impacted society. I remember a drawing program that had different colors to choose from. Each color came in different shades, with red for example labeled “shades of red”. Gray on the other hand was labeled “grey tones”. The impact can be easily seen if you google “shades of grey” and comparing it to another color and by looking at the search for shades of grey in google trends.
Is it the fact that Fifty Shades covers a very strange area for society? Or is it actually that terrible of a book? It seems to me that this book is being attacked from all sides – women against mistreatment, parents and even the bondage/bdsm community. This leads me to question, why is it well known enough for a movie to be made (and make nearly 10 million for that matter)?
This brings me back to the start, I had considered watching and reading a book that has been rated so poorly, a movie that was rated so poorly that normally I wouldn’t even consider researching. It is because I’m curious about what everyone is talking about? Or maybe because I want to judge it for myself? Either way, maybe this time I should just give it a miss.