365 Days

365 Days (Polish: 365 Dni) is a 2020 Polish erotic romantic drama film directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes. It is based on the first novel of a trilogy by Blanka Lipińska. The plot follows a young woman (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) from Warsaw in a spiritless relationship falling for a dominant Sicilian man (Michele Morrone), who imprisons and imposes on her a period of 365 days for which to fall in love with him.

365 Days was released theatrically in Poland on 7 February 2020. When it was made available on Netflix on June 7, 2020, it quickly gained global attention, becoming the most watched item in territories across the world, including in the United States. Despite this popularity, the film has received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who criticized it for its perceived glorification of the Mafia and heavy use of sex sequences that included sexual violence, drawing comparisons to the Fifty Shades trilogy. Despite being critically panned, a sequel, 365 Days: This Day, was produced and released on Netflix on April 27, 2022.

Plot
A young woman from Warsaw is kidnapped by a dominant Sicilian mafia leader, who imprisons her and imposes on her a period of 365 days in which to fall in love with him.

Why It Sucks 365 Times

 * 1) It's basically an even-crappier version, if not, also a blatant rip-off of Fifty Shades of Grey, as both films (along with the novels that they're based on) are a sexual wish-fulfillment fantasy.
 * 2) The sex scenes are unappealing, forced, and ludicrous, for example there is a scene where they have sex on a boat, while it's not bad, then have sex outside and inside the boat over and over again, which can be unintentionally hilarious for some people almost as ridiculous as Showgirls, if you compare it with other romantic movies like Fifty Shades of Grey, which although they can be bit forced, they can be seductive, but with 365 Days it doesn't do it very well.
 * 3) The characters are all unlikable due to their violent and sex-obsessed attitudes.
 * 4) In a lot of scenes, usually where there's some kind of conflict, the camera will suddenly cut to a later time period where it's apparently been resolved, which feels like a lazy excuse not to do any extra filming/writing.
 * 5) Parts of the movie are slow and really drag on.
 * 6) The movie's poster looks disgusting and highly inappropriate because it has a man hugging a woman without her consent. There are even parts of the woman's boobs seen.
 * 7) The movie is loaded with cliches.
 * 8) There's not much of a plot beyond sex and abuse.
 * 9) Since the actors spoke English as a second language, some of the dialogue comes off as weird.
 * 10) Cheesy and cringe-worthy dialogue, like "Are you lost, baby girl?".
 * 11) Horribly unfitting soundtrack.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some of the scenes are unintentionally cheesy and funny, especially the mentioned boat scene.
 * 2) It was at least successful with its target audience (young women).
 * 3) The cinematography is at least okay.

Reception
Despite the film's popularity, it was heavily panned by critics and viewers alike, with criticism focusing on it's heavy glorification of the Mafia and heavy use of sex sequences that included sexual violence, drawing comparisons to the Fifty Shades trilogy. It holds a rare 0% critic score and a 26% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a 3.4/10 on IMDb, and a 1.1 on Letterboxd. On Metacritic, though the metascore is yet to be reached, the user score is just 1.2/10, indicating "Overwhelming dislike". It currently holds a 1/5 on Common Sense Media.

Argentine critic Alejandro Turdó panned the film on a YouTube review, stating: "It's a bizarre mix of The Room, Fifty Shades of Grey and Beauty and the Beast, but combining it all in the worst possible way. (...) Some sites estimate that it could be Netflix's most watched film of the year, and that's where I start getting a bit scared, because I think that ironic viewing is getting out of hand. We're giving too much attention to truly disastrous productions." He gave 365 Days zero stars out of five, noting that it was the first-ever movie to get such a low score from him.

Peter Canavese of Celluloid Dreams said that the film is "strictly for those wondering, what would a straight-up ripoff of Fifty Shades of Grey look like if it were made in Poland?"

It became the first Polish film, the first Netflix film, and the first film of the 2020s to be featured on Wikipedia's "List of films considered the worst" page.

Awards and nominations
365 Days was nominated for six Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, and won one for Worst Screenplay.

Trivia

 * For the infamous plane blowjob scene, author mh:dreadfulbooks:Blanka Lipińska said that she offered to perform the scene herself as the flight attendant because of the scene's controversy. The production company declined and hired an actress instead.
 * Despite the film's negative reception, upon it's release, it was a commercial success, and gained global attention, becoming the most watched item in territories across the world, including in the United States. It was the first movie to have two multiday periods as Netflix's #1 movie in the US: it was #1 for 4 days, then replaced in that position by Da 5 Bloods, but then, 3 days later, returned to #1. The film has thus had 10 days as #1, the second highest in the chart's history. It was also sucessful at the box office in Poland.
 * On June 17, 2020, Collectif Soeurcières, a French feminist collective, started an online petition through Change.org, addressing Netflix France, to pull the film from streaming availability. As of August 16, it gained 40,000 signatures. On July 2, 2020, singer Duffy wrote an open letter, addressing Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, criticizing the film for glamorizing sexual violence. "This should not be anyone's idea of entertainment, nor should it be described as such, or be commercialized in this manner", she said. After this, another Change.org petition, initiated by social media influencer Mikayla Zazon, gained over 70,000 signatures. On July 8, 2020, PTC president Timothy F. Winter requested Netflix to remove the film from the platform.
 * In March 2021, this film was nominated for the worst picture at the Razzies, becoming the second foreign language film to do so after the 2002 Italian film Pinocchio (abelit the english version).

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