Female star who was imprisoned and raped demands Netflix to remove the movie ‘365 Days’
Duffy, a singer who was drugged, raped and imprisoned, recently wrote a letter to Netflix’s leadership, asking the unit to remove the movie 365 Days from the platform. According to her, the work romanticizes sex trafficking, kidnapping, and rape.
According to People on July 2, Welsh singer Duffy wrote a letter to Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, requesting to remove the movie 365 Days from their online platform. The work tells the story of Don Massimo Torricelli (played by Michelle Morrone), a notorious mafia boss, who kidnaps a girl named Laura Biel (played by Anna-Maria Sieklucka). Massimo asks the hostage to stay with him for 365 days. If after the trial period, Laura does not love the male protagonist, she can leave and vice versa. In the end, the two fell in love and embarked on a love affair full of passion and lust…
The film has received many criticisms from audiences as well as critics because of its unremarkable content, romanticizing “Stockholm syndrome” (a psychological state in which hostages over time change from feeling afraid to from fear and hatred to loving, sympathizing and even protecting his kidnapper) and at the same time, it is filled with hot scenes like a porn movie. However, the work still has “huge” views because many people are curious about the “eye-catching” lovemaking footage of the two main characters.
After being criticized by both audiences and experts for its light content and heavy porn scenes, 365 Days was criticized by Duffy for romanticizing kidnapping and rape.
In a letter to Netflix leaders, Duffy said that the work is glorifying the brutality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape. The 36-year-old singer said her own experiences inspired her to speak out about the film. She believes that this giant online platform has shown their irresponsibility by showing 365 Days. The singer born in 1984 criticized the work from Poland for hiding the dangers of kidnapping, rape or sexual violence under the glossy, romantic cover of a movie called “entertainment porn”. “. This causes many people to be unaware of the consequences that this job brings and even commit wrong actions in real life. “I cannot understand how Netflix can be careless and insensitive to a dangerous issue like this. The work even made some young women recently happily say that they were willing to be kidnapped by the male lead in the movie,” Duffy was frustrated.
Duffy continued to express that she was kidnapped and raped but was lucky to escape that tragedy and return to her current life, but not everyone is that lucky. “People don’t realize how much trauma 365 Days has brought to those who have to endure the pain of what the movie is romanticizing for commercial and entertainment gain,” singer Mercy expressed. and called on Netflix and the audience to learn about the issues of sex trafficking, kidnapping, and sexual violence to take the right action. “When we know more, we will do better,” the 36-year-old singer confided.
Duffy was born in 1984, she is a talented singer-songwriter from Wales. The 36-year-old singer became famous from her debut album Rockferry when it sold 1.6 million copies in the UK, becoming the best-selling album in the country in 2008. After her second album Endless (2010), the female singer appeared rarely. Cho then gradually disappeared from the music industry. In February 2020, Duffy suddenly revealed the reason for being absent from the stage for nearly a decade. The Grammy Award-winning singer said she was drugged, kidnapped, raped and imprisoned. The beauty was lucky to escape after that, but it took a long time to escape this obsession. Last April, Duffy detailed the incident and expressed: “Rape deprived me of my human rights, causing me to experience a life dominated by fear.” In the end, she decided to face her old obsession, appreciate herself more and look forward to a new life.
