why are people so mad about this amazing film?

Well just looking at the advertisement for the film in Netflix's and I knew it wasn't about the fairytale. However while I really enjoy Emily Browning, and can applauded her for wanting to take risks with the roles she chooses, I'm at a loss as to what the message was for this disjointed movie.

What should've been an exploration of a young girl, needing money, possibly studying these types of interests for say a class, we're left with simply nothing but a few creepy guys that want to paw at and caress a young beautiful woman. No wonder she has to be asleep, the men in particular could for sure pay for their own women, but would any woman be interested who was conscious?

Because it's *beep* boring and the protagonist is bland and unlikeable?

Well, here's your answer ^^^. Nobody except a few trolls thought this was a fairy tale, but there's some rule in Hollywood that characters have to be "likeable" and speak in sassy, precocious dialogue. There's plenty of confused, unformed young women like Emily Browning's character in REAL LIFE, but we certainly can't permit them in movies.

Then there's the fact that instead of being a standard-issue "feminist" movie, this movie was originally based on a Japanese novella by a MALE author, so it is ALSO told from the male perspective. A mature male is actually capable of seeing things from a female perspective sometimes, just as the older female director of this is capable of seeing things from a male perspective (although she is not ENTIRELY successful here). But a lot of young women simply are not, like the character here, but also like some "critics" of this movie. These "disgusting" old guys know full well they're disgusting old guys, which is why they WANT the girl drugged, so she doesn't react to them. This is a movie about beauty, not sex. Old men couldn't truly possess beauty when they were young and certainly can't hold onto it as they get old. Young women may take advantage of their beauty, but they don't understand it and they ultimately can't hold onto it either.

Edgar Allen Poe once said the most poetic thing in the world is a beautiful young girl--who is dead. Tell a young girl that though and she'll probably just say, "What a perv!" But maybe someday she'll live to be mature enough and worldly enough to understand what that really means.

"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"