13 Movies That Contradict Their Own Message

3. Fifty Shades Of Grey

The Intended Message: BDSM is a healthy component of a loving relationship.

The Real Message: BDSM gives misogynistic a**holes licence to abuse women.

The Fifty Shades of Grey movies clearly want to think that they present an image of sex-positivity and how healthy an interest in BDSM can be. This is completely contradicted, however, by the tumultuous, abusive central relationship between suave a**hole Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and his mousy girlfriend Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).

He's frequently depicted as a jealous, controlling pr*ck who uses his "red room" - a playroom filled with BDSM toys - as an outlet for his unresolved childhood trauma involving his drug addict mother and statutory rape at the hands of a family friend (Kim Basinger).

BDSM here doesn't so much seem like a healthy component of a loving relationship as it does a means for Christian to get "revenge" on women for how they've wronged him in the past. Through all three movies, Ana's a clear victim of comprehensive emotional and physical abuse, and that the movies paint this as romantic is, well, stomach-churning.