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Originally Posted by Partless
Oh I see. I haven't read the book or seen the movie, but read summary of it and have looked at some reviews and discussions of the movie and that's where I saw some people talking about it working better as fantasy than real story (complaining about superficial characterization and other aspects of the story that were unlikely or far fetched). So I used the fantasy argument as a way to bypass the discussion about whether it was more BDSM or abuse stuff.
But having read the books yourself, you're obviously in a very good position to form an opinion about its merits. My information is secondhand.
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I'm probably one of very few who cried though - mainly the movie theatre was full of laughter, girls having a night out, the movie was not taken very seriously. It kind of hit a nerve for me when Anastasia cried. And I think I might have talked up the books, its pretty rubbish romantic fiction really, I think there was a lot of lingering eye gazing, that sort of stuff.