Eric Nelson reminds us in his Feb 20th Communities Digital News article that ‘Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance’ and further suggests – In love, there are no “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Because one can certainly find the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie in Kansas theaters, it seems helpful to share a healthier sense of love – through this excerpt from Nelson’s thought-provoking article on love – and encourage you to follow the link below it to read the entire article.
Despite the fact that nearly every critic on the planet gave it an emphatic thumbs-down (current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 26%), “Fifty Shades of Grey” still managed to rake in more money over the Presidents Day weekend than any other movie in history. Go figure.
While analyses and commentaries abound as to what drives the public’s seemingly insatiable appetite for the salacious, or the propriety of Hollywood pandering to such base interests, not much has been said about the film’s portrayal of love. As long as experts continue to weigh in on the accuracy of such Oscar-nominees as “American Sniper” and “Selma,” why not subject “Fifty Shades” to the same scrutiny?
To do this, it might be helpful to draw on the expertise of someone whose investigation of love continues to inform our understanding of this most basic of all sentiments.
“Love is patient and kind,” wrote St. Paul in his letter to the Corinthians, sometime around 55 CE. “Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
Not a word about love being selfish or insistent, controlling or perverse, abusive or unkind. In fact, it says just the opposite. And here’s why: