Once again recruited by force,
Cage this time demands to be joined by a bunch of outlaws like himself, each with their own special abilities, forming a clan he describes as «the good, the extreme, and the completely insane.»
After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure of the first film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to
demand to hold the reins from
time to
time — a narrative turn that manages to frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded
cage of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.