Duffy has accused Netflix of ”glamourising the brutal actuality of intercourse trafficking, kidnapping and rape”.
The 36-year-old singer has written an open letter to streaming service, accusing Netflix of being ”irresponsible” for broadcasting the movie ‘365 Days’, which tells the story of a lady who’s imprisoned by a person who provides her a 12 months to fall in love with him.
Duffy wrote the letter after revealing earlier this 12 months that she’d beforehand been drugged, kidnapped and raped.
In a letter addressed to Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings, she stated: ”I do not need to be on this place to have to write down to you, however the advantage of my struggling obliges me to take action, due to a violent expertise that I endured of the sort that you’ve chosen to current as ‘grownup erotica’.
”’365 Days’ glamourises the brutal actuality of intercourse trafficking, kidnapping and rape. This shouldn’t be anybody’s concept of leisure, nor ought to or not it’s described as such, or be commercialised on this method.
”I write these phrases (ones I can’t imagine I’m writing in 2020, with a lot hope and progress gained lately), as an estimated 25 million persons are presently trafficked all over the world, to not point out the untold quantities of individuals uncounted.”
The movie has confirmed to be an enormous hit with Netflix viewers, however Duffy has accused the streaming service of behaving in a ”careless, insensitive, and harmful” method.
She continued: ”It grieves me that Netflix supplies a platform for such ‘cinema’, that eroticises kidnapping and distorts sexual violence and trafficking as a ‘horny’ film. I simply can’t think about how Netflix might overlook how careless, insensitive, and harmful that is. It has even prompted some younger ladies, not too long ago, to jovially ask Michele Morrone, the lead actor within the movie, to kidnap them.
”We all know Netflix wouldn’t host materials glamorising paedophilia, racism, homophobia, genocide, or some other crimes towards humanity. The world would rightly stand up and scream. Tragically, victims of trafficking and kidnapping are unseen, and but in ‘365 Days’ their struggling is made right into a ‘erotic drama’, as described by Netflix.”
Duffy hopes individuals who’ve watched the movie will in the end replicate on the ”actuality of kidnapping and trafficking, of power and sexual exploitation”.
She wrote: ”If all of you at Netflix take nothing from this open letter however these remaining phrases, I shall be content material. You haven’t realised how ‘365 Days’ has introduced nice damage to those that have endured the pains and horrors that this movie glamorises, for leisure and for {dollars}.
”What I and others who know these injustices want is the precise reverse – a story of fact, hope, and to be given a voice.”
