365 Days: 2 movie continues the troubled story of a woman who falls in love with her kidnapper, but now the bet is doubled

In 2020, a Polish film appeared that was trying at all costs to be a new Fifty Shades of Grey, and that Netflix had bought to put in the catalog. It was 365 Days, a regrettable, horrible film that at the time we even called criminal, for normalizing a situation in which the main character suffered from Stockholm Syndrome. But it had a lot of sensual scenes, so of course, it was successful.

Most of the professional critics didn’t like the film and with good reason: in addition to having a tacky and completely nonsensical script, it was also very poorly filmed, it looked like it had been made by a team of amateurs. So much so that he was nominated for a bunch of Golden Raspberry, that award for the worst of the year, and took the trophy for Worst Screenplay.

But, as we said: there were a lot of sensual scenes and a couple that had a lot of chemistry in the scene, that can’t be denied. Netflix smartly bought the rights to produce both sequels, because yes, just like in Fifty Shades of Grey, 365 Days is a trilogy, here written by Polish writer Blanka Lipińska.

Then we have 365 Days: This Day, which is coming to the platform, and what we can say about it is that history decided to double the ante: if it was bizarre in the first part, it is twice as bizarre in the second. But there are a lot of sensual scenes. So it’s probably going to be a big hit.

Remember the previous movie

Before talking about the current movie, we have to talk about the previous movie. In fact, we have to talk about how it ends. If you managed to get to the end, you must have seen that Laura, played by Anna Maria Sieklucka, is happy with her passion, the mobster Massimo, played in the film by Michele Morrone. As is well known, he is a criminal who had kidnapped Laura, but they fell in love – look at the Stockholm syndrome there – and began to live a torrid romance.

The end of the previous film is left open when one of Massimo’s henchmen receives a call and alerts the boss that Laura may be in danger. He tries to contact the girl and the mobster, but he can’t, so he goes to Massimo’s house to raise the alarm. Massimo tries to call Laura but loses communication with her when the car she’s it enters a tunnel. Her car doesn’t make it out of the tunnel, and the scene shows a police car parked at the entrance.

Those watching have the impression that Laura was killed by Massimo’s rivals. But then it wouldn’t be possible to make a trilogy, right? So in this movie, she appears very much alive and married to him. But we won’t give more details about how this happened so as not to spoil her surprise, in case she’s interested in it, right?

Twice worse

About the story of this movie, what you need to know is that Massimo and Laura are happily married and everything seems like a huge fairy tale for the couple. But Massimo has a lot of people who don’t like him, and one of his rivals has a plan: rather than hitting him directly, it’s hitting those he loves most in life. So, after a couple’s fight, Laura decides to return to Poland with her friend, Olga but is kidnapped (again).

This time, the one who kidnaps her is Marcelo Nacho, who is the son of Massimo’s rival mafia boss. His plan is to take Laura to the Canary Islands and keep the girl hostage there, leaving Massimo desperate. Is Laura’s life in danger? Yes, but here comes the most impressive thing about this whole story: she begins to feel attracted to the thief who kidnapped her, and enters with him into a game of seduction. Yes. Again.

As you may have already noticed, this film, as Isabela Boscov would say, is a huge hoot. It’s a repetition of what happened in the first film, but with the aggravating factor that now we are sure that Laura urgently needs psychological treatment. If it’s already strange that a person agrees to marry the person who kidnapped them in the past, even stranger is falling in love with a new kidnapper.

The actors’ chemistry is good, the movie is not

Anna Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, and Simone Susanna combine well and do very well the most sensual scenes required by the “script” (script in quotation marks here because right). Maybe that’s the only good thing about this whole situation because the movie is regrettable in many ways and as a narrative, it’s a poor, painful thing that wouldn’t have any chance of being produced if it weren’t for a shameless carbon copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. which is also no big deal.

But what counts is the audience, and in that sense, those who like hot scenes with actors that look like they came out of a Dior catalog will be quite satisfied with what’s here in this film. It’s even heavier than the first, it has more daring scenes, but if you’re going to follow a story like this, it’s better to go see an adult film at once, so you don’t waste time with the frills that the script makes. to try to make sense of all that we are seeing.

In summary: 365 Days: This Day movie is as bad as the first film, serious candidate to take home a few more Golden Raspberries, but it will satisfy those who love a strong makeout, even if it makes no sense. Congratulations to Netflix, which, intelligently, realized this audience niche that most likely has everything to become something very recurrent in the catalog.