Krzysztof Kwiatkowski is a film critic and from the window of his writing and just at the precise moment of the current conversation he sees a bus passing that cries out against "the sexualization of children" that, according to the owners of the megaphone, LGTBI groups are trying . "The funny thing," says the journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza , "is that it is very difficult to find a single complaint within 365 daysamong the most conservative ranks. It is as if it were accepted that heterosexual rape did not matter, but be careful with having a homosexual child ». His comment is in fact the biggest Polish success in a long time and from any point of view. Released just before the pandemic, that didn't stop the film from being seen by 1.6 million Poles. Then came the quarantine and, from his hand and thanks to the tireless efforts of social networks, the most resounding success. And worldwide.

But what is it, what is it about and how is it treating the tape that sells itself as the Polish version of 50 Shades of Gray? Basically, and for those (few) who have not yet fallen into temptation, it is about the adaptation to the screen by Barbara Bialowas of Blanka Lipinska's novel of the same title. The story of a kidnapping is told, which an Italian mobster with the appearance of an Olympic pertigist (more description than metaphor) exercises over an innocent Polish woman with whom she fell in love (or something like that) at some point and for some reason . Don't look for details. There are none. He is actor Michele Morrone and she is Anna Maria Sieklucka. If you think, for example, of Átame , by Almodóvar, you are going wrong. Perhaps the starting point coincides. Nothing else. The first scene of sex is a fellatio that our protagonist more than enjoys performing on a stewardess. She cries, but immediately the viewer will discover that they are tears of pleasure. A smile on camera after the submission sequence makes it clear that this initial no was actually a yes. And so everything else. Or almost. The film can actually be read as a long explanation of that prologue. The kidnapped woman wants to be free and not be harassed, tortured and raped ... Ignorant. It's actually because you don't know what you want. When you discover it helped by luxury and a very long shopping session you will realize your mistake.

"Although the so-called housewives revolution is, as the EL James novels showed , a global trending topic , I think the added component of 365 has a lot to do with the most radically Polish fantasies: Italian tan male, lots of money, travel , passion ... », comments Kwiatkowski to find some of the keys to success, despite everything. As he said, all crappy fantasies are alike regardless of nationality.

The film is one step away from parody, but it doesn't. It is not irony that defines it. Upside down. The serious gesture of each shot (zenith or genital), the high-end car ad photography and the interpretations between affected and only bad have made her the perfect victim of what is called criticism. But that, with being, is the least of it in such a case. There are many voices that accuse the film of romanticizing rape. Paulina Reiter , long-time editor of Wysokie Obcasy magazine , goes further and after analyzing the role of sexual fantasies in popular culture, she concludes that 365 "is a perfect test for our culture" because "culture must enrich us and not harm us . And this film is harmful because it makes the rape culture stronger. "

Lipinska, of course, defends himself. She feels like an heir to the revolutionary author of The Art of Loving which in 1978 was the first sexual guide in Communist Poland. "If Michalina Wislocka affirmed that the female sex existed, now I say that women have the right to be perverts." One step further, the author strives to refute feminism in toto, raising herself as a champion of a supposedly new way of understanding it. "Feminists do not like me because I recognize the weakness of women in relation to men," she said. in various interviews. And he continues: «I like to be looked after. I let the men open the doors for me. I let the dinner, the vacations, the apartment pay me ... Although I could easily pay it. Nature was quicker than feminists in making men protect the female-made home .... Why should we lose it? And so.

"Her new feminism is the usual misogyny," wrote journalist Maja Stasko . The bus from the beginning passes again.

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