Feminists who hold this up as empowerment miss a couple of points:
* The movie says violence against women is OK as long as you make it sound sexy.
* The book and movie follow the classic method to induct people in a cult. Seduce people into perversion by making it seem moral, enriching and good? Not a good impression whether BDSM or LGBTABCWTF.
* At the very end, they still get married and have two kids .. so no matter how extreme it is portrayed as, it is like the wild and free sitcom kids settling into marriages and families .. the opposite of what liberal secularists say should be the ideal.
saw 45 minutes of the first movie. B O R I N G turned it off and never been back.