Nailed it.What? Nobody is forcing you to open, read, or contribute to this thread.
Anyway, I quit Netflix after this abomination:
I figured the made up names I created at the beginning proved that I don’t know what show that is.
Well, that movie was against pedophilia and sexualizing children, even if it went about it in a questionable way (which was supposed to be disturbing).
Lots of other content that left-wing employees apparently don’t approve of, too, although not enough of it and too much pushing progressive points of view. The idea that Cuties promoted pedophilia is silly, though.
I do. Thinking about getting two accounts now.
Yeah, murder is never portrayed in movies that aren’t promoting murder. In fact, violence is frequently depicted to show how disturbingly wrong it is. Silly example.
Movie called Cuties. Pedophile normalization attempt gone horribly wrong
Ok. I’ll make sure I don’t watch it. Doesn’t seem like something I’d enjoy.
Who needs a movie to tell people that sexualization of children is bad???
Apparently the kind of people who let their kids participate in these kinds of dance shows, beauty contests, etc. Teen girls are constantly having to deal with messages telling them they need to advertise their sexuality.
Think about what you’re saying here. It’s madness. Nobody needs to “be disturbed by the sexualization of children.” There is no need to make that point and nobody wants to see it.
You’re supposed to find it gross and disturbing. As I said, I think doing it at all is questionable. But saying the movie promotes pedophilia or is a movie for pedophiles is dumb.
Then why double down and say you’re gonna get another membership/account or whatever? Seems purposeful
Here’s an excerpt from a positive review (written by a woman, about a movie made by a woman, about girls) just to help you understand what the movie is about:
They are reminded and told that it’s not ok….. the psycho moms just don’t care.
It ‘Twas a joke. I was being a d!ck because I find this woke/boycott issue funny.
Fair enough but none of the examples you posted are normalizing (trying to normalize) pedophilia.
It’s that, and the general messages that girls get about their sexuality that the movie explores. It’s clearly not in favor of sexualizing young girls.
Just to be clear, you think Cuties is normalizing or trying to normalize pedophilia?
Here’s an excerpt from a positive review (written by a woman, about a movie made by a woman, about girls) just to help you understand what the movie is about:
Near the end of Cuties, its 11-year-old heroines take the stage at a dance competition with a routine that wouldn't be out of place in a strip club. Clad in sparkly short-shorts and crop tops, they hump the floor, grab their crotches, lick their lips, and throw their heads back in a naive simulation of sex, to the visible discomfort of their audience.
It's possibly the film's most disturbing scene, and for some reason, it's also the scene Netflix chose to highlight in their early marketing, sparking an outcry they should've seen coming from a mile away. (The company has since apologized.) What both the ill-conceived marketing and subsequent controversy are missing, however, is everything about the context.
Yes, it's upsetting, and it's supposed to be — because the whole point of Cuties is how damn hard it can be for girls to navigate womanhood in a society that's all too eager to tell girls and women what they should be, and not at all interested in what they might be or want to be.
Written and directed by Maïma Doucouré, Cuties is the story of Amy (Fathia Youssouf), who's just immigrated to Paris from Senegal with her devout Muslim mother and two younger brothers. While the family waits for Dad to join them, Amy becomes intrigued by a neighbor, Angelica (Médina El Aidi-Azouni), whom she (and we) first see from the back, gyrating to music in skintight pants and a belly-baring shirt. It's a mild surprise when she turns around and we see she's Amy's age. Angelica and her friends, the Cuties, come across as cool and worldly to the sheltered Amy, in ways Amy's conservative family would never approve of. Which, of course, is part of the appeal.
… But in both horrific scenes and adorable ones, what remains consistent is Doucouré's honesty. She shows these moments as they are, in all their silliness and ugliness, without packaging them in easy moralizing or faux empowerment. Amy's attempts to put on a more grown-up sexuality may be unsettling to watch, but they're also true to a world that bombards girls with the message that, whether they cover up or bare it all, keep their heads down and cook or shake their asses on the dance floor, womanhood is whatever men need it to be. That climactic scene of her writhing on stage isn't about showing Amy as a sexual being, but about taking to task a culture that struggles to see young women any other way.
Rather than deny those harsh truths, Cutiesgives Amy and her friends the space to experiment within them, no matter how clumsily and misguidedly, and no matter how upsetting we in the audience might find it. By doing so, Doucouré extends to these girls a generosity that, as we've seen in the film, is so often denied them by the rest of the world — the freedom to figure out how they want to navigate it.
As Jim Jeffries closes out his podcast, I don’t know about that.
