Polish film 365 Days has become something of an unlikely sensation on Netflix. The film is known for more or less two things: being extraordinarily kinky and also extraordinarily bad. And yet it’s also been among the streamer’s most-watched titles in both the U.S. and the U.K. in recent weeks—a sensation as strange as it is depressing, given how heavily Netflix has been promoting worthy work from Black creators amid Black Lives Matter protests.
Either way, at least one person has gone on record as being less than pleased with this development: Duffy, who revealed earlier this year that she has survived both rape and kidnapping, wrote an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, condemning 365 Days for glamorizing rape and “eroticising” abduction.
Duffy first revealed in February that years before, she had been drugged, raped, and held captive. In April she shared further details. “It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country,” she wrote at the time. She said at the time she did not feel safe approaching the police; “I felt if anything went wrong, I would be dead, and he would have killed me. I could not risk being mishandled or it being all over the news during my danger,” she wrote.
