365 Days
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
- Released: 2020-02-07
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Stars: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, Bronisław Wrocławski, Otar Saralidze, Magdalena Lamparska, Natasza Urbańska, Grażyna Szapołowska, Tomasz Stockinger, Gianni Parisi, Mateusz Lasowski, Agnieszka Warchulska, Przemysław Sadowski, Michał Mikołajczak, Andrea Batti, Mateusz Grydlik, Natalia Janoszek, Tomasz Mandes, Blanka Lipińska, Ewa Lewandowska, Bartek Cierlica
- Director: Barbara Bialowas, Tomasz Mandes
Comments
- KejB - 10 January 2023
Giving the BOTD-
The benefit of the doubt-that writers, producers, director and cast genuinely believes in this trilogy and the hours and money they've invested in bringing it together....
A healthy sex life is admirable and high on many a priority list. And there's definitely something to be said about reading good erotica - the power of imagination is far greater than a generalist movie can cover. Bringing it to the screen takes a lot more finesse.
Blanka likens her tale to Beauty and The Beast, and while adults can be childlike and childish, they are not children who are likely to get distracted more by the (literal!) song and dance. Consider your audience, your competition Blanka, and it might make the criticism easier to swallow.
Women around the world today are still fighting positions of subservience, inequality, and are the most sex-trafficked gender. These are no cartoon fantasies.
That said, based on an erotic fantasy and assuming Blanka did want to be taken seriously, it is hard to elevate this trilogy from straight-up porn.
Even increasing "porn for women" websites fall terribly short of the mark, creating little- to no background in a story, using tropes and cliches en masse, and worst of all in their specific case, still focused on male pleasure and boring and repetitive positions found in stock porn.
This trilogy bares pushes that obstacle. Even when the bar is not that high. Sex is so personal and visceral, filmmakers need more realistic plots to entice an audience to suspend their disbelief. Without a good story, sex on screen is just porn. And there's hardly any original porn out there, so now the movie becomes plain boring.
There are millions of excellent erotic stories out there that Netflix could have brought to the screen, so it's also sad that this was the option selected. (Shout out to Kit Rocha and the Beyond Crew)
So, putting aside all the obvious male view and misogyny that needs attention, the cliché ostentatiousness and Laura's porn-trope facial expressions incl permanent fishface, here are just a few key plot points that detracted from a potentially sizzling and truly erotic visual story (50 shades made similar mistakes):
-That prolonged erotic sex can happen without engaging the mind.
-That erotic sex can only happen to rich, dangerous, and possibly psychotic people, possibly addicts.
-Also, only the good looking and physically fit, and those without any emotional intelligence, and who are arrogant, selfish, apathetic.
-How vapid Massimo is: he doesn't have a life, can afford 365 days straight to train a sex slave. Sorry, I mean make someone fall in love with him. Even the mafia have slow days.
-How vapid Laura is: she didn't even get to 61 days before "caving". That she didn't just cave, she "fell in love". And then married the man. Or was it his money? That she took no time to really get to know him or even contemplate what their sex-life and daily-life would look like. And then complained about it. Constantly. Still. While also betraying Massimo.
-That no one cares or knows about Laura missing all that time. Not even her boss? Her parent? Just one very questionable friend?
**sequel** That Laura wants her independence, but is happy to accept a whole company in a random industry for Christmas.
-That whole Christmas scene. Barf.
Sigh... - GiraffeDoor - 8 September 2022
YOU get lost...but seriously, I've seen much worse.
Aesthetically I want to dig this movie. It's a 90-minute perfume commercial with nothing to advertize but the sequel.
This vision of that world populated by those with more money than taste but who think they have taste (I'm one of them sans the money) is wickedly enchanting and the sensuality has a lot of appeal.
I only wish we had a better story and some characters I actually cared about. It could have actually worked but I'm genuinely not sure if I am supposed to be OK with this not OK stuff.
I think they think they make the guy look better because he doesn't murder a bunch of kids or something but he's still a gangster basically. I'm not saying gangsters are all that worse than the police necessarily but still.
The sex scenes kind of bore me. There's a lot of it and...yeah, I've just seen it all before. It annoyed me how they show her naked and THEN do the first sex scene. I mean that makes no sense...
And of course, the music and acting are all just...no. Why couldn't it all be in Polish?
