That being said, here is the trailer for The Duke of Burgundy, a film that looks set to prove this people wrong. The story details an intensely sexual and kinky Dom/sub affair between a Professor who studies butterflies and her lover. The imagery in this is striking without being gratuitous or in your face. Whilst it’s definitely not subtle, it’s not trying too hard either partly because there’s a sense it doesn’t have to. The music accompanies the images in teasing and toying, getting faster until the climatic click, leaving the audience wanting to see the film to find out whether the film is as good as it claims to be.
If the trailers for Fifty Shades of Grey and The Duke of Burgundy were two people at a party, Fifty Shades of Grey would be the person who wears a ridiculous outfit running around begging for attention whilst The Duke of Burgundy is the confident yet comfortably sexy person enjoying themselves.