The latest film “Luckiest Girl Alive”, starring 39-year old Mila Kunis, is causing a stir with viewers on Netflix.
Viewers claim the film should have a warning label before anyone watches, due to the traumatic events that occur within the film.
Some viewers say they even regretted watching the film because of the very disturbing scenes of sexual violence. The complaints started circulating the web on the heels of the #MeToo-tinged movie’s release on the streaming platform Friday.
Based on Jessica Knoll’s best-selling 2015 novel of the same name, the drama concerns successful NYC magazine writer Ani FaNelli (Kunis), whose meteoric rise is jeopardized by a True Crime documentary that details her harrowing experiences in high school. These include surviving a school shooting and enduring a gang-rape at 14, which was largely ignored by her peers and adults.
The film, which is also produced by Kunis, explores the phenomenon of victim blaming and the scarlet-lettering of sexual assault survivors in graphic detail, perhaps too graphic for some audiences.
Following the R-rated film’s release on Netflix, appalled viewers took to social media to complain about its disturbing depictions of rape.
Some felt these brutally realistic scenes warranted “trigger warnings” beyond the platform’s standard pre-screening disclaimer, which only briefly mentions “sexual violence” and “threat” on top of the screen when the movie begins.
“Wow. Good job, @netflix on the trigger warning you didn’t provide on your Luckiest Girl Alive movie smh,” snarked one disappointed viewer. “PSA for anyone who is gonna watch the movie, there is very graphic intense scenes of sexual assault in this movie.”
“Netflix really dropped the ball on not adding a giant trigger warning for Luckiest Girl Alive,” declared another.
“Netflix didn’t bother to give a trigger warning but i will,” wrote another. “Do NOT watch Luckiest Girl Alive if you are only expecting a movie about a school shooting. there are very very graphic depictions of SA as the main plot point.”
This isn’t the first time a Netflix series has gotten into hot water over allegedly traumatic content.
In January 2021, viewers slammed Netflix’s True Crime docuseries “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer” for its depictions of gore, which were reportedly so lurid that even seasoned true-crime fans had to shut it off.
