The Artistic Value of 365 Days

 we've seen 365 days. i think it's best described as 50 shades of beauty and the mafia beast. after the Boat Scene, i finally understand why tiktok thirst traps use the song I see red.

what i'm saying, in short, is that it doesn't seem deep. it's fun, it might be packed with fanservice, but where is the Artistic Value?

I have found some right in the intro - well, right after its 5 year timeskip. so, let's first describe the shots i will be talking about. 

firstly, we have our male lead, Massimo, the new head of a Sicilian mafia family, talking business in san francisco. his requests and then blackmailnare intercut with a meeting of the female lead, Laura, over some project she had supervised. both characters demonstrate their wits, skills in their job and dominance in the meeting. then, they are left alone at their respective tables. we cut to each of them on their way in a car, M receives a sexy video whereas L shoots one of herself. Laura arrives home and we meet her dumbass boyfriend, who wants to take her on vacation but she has to pack. M awakens on his private jet and is informed of a stolen package of coke.

what i am getting at is that so far, they seem to be in the same headspace: first, dominant and successful, but later unsatisfied with that success, and then finally, met with a huge frustration. 

next thing is that M draws the plane curtains and gets a flight attendant to suck him off. it's all bright and reminds me of an actual adult film, with how dominant he acts, the framing, the crispness of it all.

L is also trying to relax - with a vibrator, drawn curtains and dim lights. what she is doing is far less visible, the viewer has more room for imagination.

these two scenes are intercut as well, and while to some this might give the impression that they are in fact having sex together, in a way, i saw it differently.

i saw it as both of them still acting in very similar ways, just needing a quick release, something. all this framing presents M's "affair"(?) with that woman as masturbaring with an extra tool. the flight attendant has almost the same screentime as the vibrator. it might be intended to just characterise M as this uncaring douche who gets what he wants, but in me it brought up how women are often just tools for pleasure. how in hookup culture, men don't care about women's feelings or pleasure, just their own, and sometimes if women dare complain, "he still hit it though".

because if Massimo was in the same headspace as Laura, he was just masturbating with that woman's throat. and all the preceding shots suggest that.

and because this is the thing i hate most to think about during sex scenes, unless it was intentiknal, it was wrongly edited.

are we really supposed to fall for the guy who views us as objects? at least in this film, if seems like we are.