Fifty Shades Of Grey: 10 Ways It Tricks People Into Liking It

7. The Prudish Nudity Gets It A Massive Audience

Even though Fifty Shades Of Grey has an R-rating in the US and an 18 in the UK, it feels incredibly restrained. Dakota Johnson is topless for lengthy sequences and Jamie Dorman gets an obligatory rear shot, but given what the characters are talking about, it's very safe. No doubt those at the Daily Mail who've been fussing for months over whether or not they'd get to catch a glimpse of Dorman's knob (for those of you curious, there's a split-second glimpse of the shaft) went home let down. That's not a complaint that the film isn't explicit (as will be discussed later, the sex scenes in this movie about sex are totally perfunctory), but that it comes across incredibly prudish. The camera angles that avoid "little Jamie" are purposely cut just above the waist and Anastasia perpetually wears underwear in situations where in reality Christian Grey would have tore it off. You don't have to show full-frontal nudity (in fact, it's much better not to), but the film makes no attempt to suggest at it, leaving it feeling almost ashamed of its bonkbuster origins. Really, it's totally unsurprising that a film with such box office pedigree has erred on the side of caution, never going further than plentiful boob shots, but what is remarkable is how the film tries to hint at it all within its R-rating constraints, creating the illusion it's something more steamy than it actually is.