Everyone is talking about the Netflix film "365 Days". Our author saw him – and reveals why you can save yourself the erotic thriller.
Hardly any streaming film is currently making waves as high as "365 Days" on Netflix. The erotic thriller, based on the Polish book "365 dni", more or less shamelessly hits the same notch as the famous BDSM flick "Fifty Shades of Gray" and even recycles some of the (worst) scenes from the (also lousy) template . There are other reasons why you really don't have to have seen this film.
Caution: This text could contain traces of irony!
Vices staring at women
The plot of the film could hardly be pulled by the hair anymore: up-and-coming boss Mafiosi Massimo (Michele Morrono) initially uses the binoculars to cover the vacationing Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucks) while his father refuses to do business in which it is about trafficking in human beings with refugees (Mafiosi also obviously have their pride?). What he was shot for directly and Massimo seriously injured. He considers the latter to be so fateful that from this moment on he is obsessed with Laura and swears to make her his property.
Five years later, Laura goes on vacation to Sicily with her boring partner and promptly runs into Massimo. Who obviously had enough time over the years to come up with the perfect pick-up line: "Did you get lost, little one?" he asks, and with such script-based violence, you as a viewer almost expect Massimo to say, "And why is there straw here?" added. He takes his chance and has Laura kidnapped to make her the ultimate offer: she should remain under his control for 365 days and fall in love with him during this time. And he promises that he will only touch her if she allows him to.
It could always be worse
Of course, he'll keep breaking that promise throughout the movie. Again and again Massimo grabs Laura by the neck or neck, brutally pushes her against walls and grabs her. Of course, Laura realizes over time that she finds these games quite exciting (somehow you have to create a basis for the love relationship that follows, of course).
The problem with this is that this is not about a young woman who discovers new erotic tendencies in herself, but who is forced to do so. Even "Fifty Shades" was already further at this point – after all, main character Ana signs the contract in the film, which defines her rights and obligations as a sub, ultimately voluntarily.
The main thing is to shop
But of course Massimo knows how to get women around. If he is not sexually compelling, he drags Laura from one luxury boutique to the next and lets her limit his credit card limit endlessly. After all, that also convinces Laura that life on the side of a mafiosi is actually quite nice. As is well known, women are always for sale. Or at least the film wants to tell us that. The rest of the story is no longer worth mentioning – there are, among other things, many sex scenes, a visit to a masquerade ball (which was already superfluous with "Fifty Shades") and an open ending, which unfortunately leaves space for a completely unnecessary second part.
What does this nonsense actually want to tell us?
Secretly, every woman has a few fantasies of violence – you just have to force her to deal with it. So the core premise of this strip can be summarized. And if you go after that, Massimo is of course the absolute dream type: When Laura in her much too tight dress (which he bought her!) Slips past him, he feels (of course …) permanently irritated. It is clear that she also intends to provoke him, but nevertheless the blame for an assault is placed on the victim, who is said to have dressed too provocatively. A fire-threatening message in times of #metoo.
Massimo excuses his behavior by the way that the Mafiosi Boss junior school probably doesn't teach you how to be gentle. So he can't help but be brutal. Undoubtedly also understands the flight attendant, who forces him to give a blowjob at the start of the film because a box of cocaine was stolen from him. There are simply no other ways the poor guy could react. And anyway, Massimo is just a hot guy – you have to forgive him for his rape fantasies, right? Um, how about no.
And who looks at that?
With all this hair-raising nonsense, one wonders, of course, why "365 Days" is one of the most popular films on Netflix. Probably because it ultimately tells of certain sexual fantasies that one or the other has. But luckily you can – if you want – live it out in reality in a protected personal setting without being pushed to it. And to be inspired, you don't need a miserable film like "365 Days".