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    Why People Are Obsessed With a Terrible Polish Erotic Thriller

    Thanks to the pandemic, Netflix’s first summer hit is a shallow movie full of sun, sex, and spit.
    by Hannah Giorgis Jun 26, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Netflix / The Atlantic

    Saliva has had a strange few years.

    It seems like just yesterday that the phrase Spit in my mouth catapulted to memetic heights, after the 2018 wide release of Disobedience, a romance film about two Orthodox Jewish women that involves a meticulously choreographed and widely shared sex scene. Saliva had another big moment in 2019: During the first season of Netflix’s thoughtful British raunchfest Sex Education, a memorable encounter between two teenage boys only inspired more memes.

    This month, the Twitter-friendly spit-scene category has a new entrant thanks to , the Polish on Netflix’s top-10 list. Unlike and , there’s a stunning crassness to both this movie and its most famous sequence. , which overtook even on the Netflix charts, has a retrograde premise: After the death of his Mob-boss father, an Italian man named Massimo (played by Michele Morrone) kidnaps the Polish woman he’s become fixated on and gives her a year to fall in love with him. Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) initially protests but soon submits to his wiles, loudly and often.

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