If your production is number six at the most watched Netflix in the United States, you’re probably doing things really well… or not so much. It is the case of “365 DNI” (or 365 days), a Polish film that premiered last February 7 in that country (and amassed a gross of almost ten million dollars), and now it reached the streaming platform creating more than one controversy among viewers, divided between the “entrapient erotic narrative” and the glorification of certain rather inappropriate aspects of behavior within a relationship. Based on blanka Lipisska’s novel of the same name, the story centers on Laura (Anna Maria Sieklucka), sales director at a luxury Warsaw hotel. The girl has a successful career, but her private life lacks passion. To stoke her a little, she decides to travel with her boyfriend Martin (Mateusz Lasowski) and several friends to the Region of Sicily, but what she finds goes far beyond romance. Massimo Torricelli (Michele Morrone) has just inherited the Sicilian Mafia empire after the assassination of his father. The most dangerous man on the island crosses into Laura’s path, kidnaps her and holds her captive with the sole intention of her falling in love with him in the next 365 days.
Beyond the unsustainable of this argument (or “Beauty and the Beast), the film directed by Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes created quite a stir among users of the on-demand system, who did not restrain themselves in taking social media and expressing their opinions on this crude “romanticization of Stockholm Syndrome,” among other things.” Kidnapping, false imprisonment and eventual Stockholm syndrome is not romantic. The right genre for 365 DNI is horror,” reads one of the many posts that spread on Twitter in a negative way, more in times of #MeToo and Time’s Up, where Hollywood tries to trumpet a very different message.” Remember, there’s a big difference between fantasy and reality. If you’re a man, don’t give up ideas. No woman wants to be kidnapped and fall in love,” she also read out there, in response to this story laden with SCENES from BDSM (bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadism and masochism) and voyeism, which are well reminiscent of E. James’s 50 Shadows Saga.
Deep down, is there love?
“I looked at 365 ID before the fuss he created. Can I say the movie is too exaggerated? I can only be ashamed of its lines, the plot of a predictable story and unrealistic twists. Do you know his name when you fall in love with your kidnapper? Stockholm syndrome. No love, little sister,” tweeted another viewer, summarizing the conflict around a film that seems to forgive rape, as long as it comes from a carilindo and good-bodied protagonist.” 365 DNI” also encountered positive reviews that exalted his erotic and adult character (??): a fantasy where everything is allowed. Of course, from Netflix headquarters they didn’t comment because, as the saying goes, “bad publicity is good publicity.” Have you reached number one yet?
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