Netflix's Movie "Cuties"

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What does GD think of this?

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/20/netflix-accused-sexualising-girls-release-cuties-13152644/

metro said:
The story centres on Amy, an 11-year-old being raised in a traditional Senegalese Muslim household, who is caught between traditional values and internet culture which focuses on the hyper-sexualisation of girls after she joins a group of dancers named ‘the cuties’ at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity.
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Granted I've not watched it and usually I'm pretty liberal about moves etc... but my first thought here is it seems a bit... :eek:

Also as if we didn't have enough of an issue with the alt right/QAnon conspiracy theorists who think there is some cabal of senior Hollywood execs & politicians who are secret paedos and meet up in pizza restaurants etc.. This is pure bait for that lot.

In spoiler tags as a courtesy as you might prefer not to open the below at work etc..
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How did this get approved by so many people you might be asking? We'll firstly it's French (that explains some of it at least), and I guess it's won an award at Sundance... so Netflix can be a bit edgy and host it along with provocative promotional matterial with those facts as a bit of cover.
 
Greebo said:
Interesting that in the US they have changed to original poster to the one posted in the OP and the original just had the girls clothed and laughing and playing with each other and the whole synopsis has been re written to something far more sexual than the film actually is.
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Oh that's interesting, deliberate marketing choice to stir up controversey... playing off inevitably similar reactions to Cardi B's WAP. Wonder if Ben Shapiro will go off on one re: this movie.

I guess this thread is contributing to it in a way.
 
Yeah this might be a bit of a bridge too far, but stirring up a bit of controversy and getting people talking about it isn't always a bad move.

Especially if it does then turn out to be a good film and a load of pretentious fim critics and movie buffs can be like:

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"... it's (insert pseudointellectual waffle)..."

(^^^ average film studies/media studies grad who has failed at life in general but makes sure to try to assert his superior taste/opinion in this one narrow field... *knew* the Matrix was a trans allegory all along but only posting about it now.... you anti-intellectual normies just wouldn't understand. Mostly found on reddit and tumblr etc.. but there are a couple in the relevant sub forum on here too)
 
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Really - nothing sexual at all about twerking in skimpy clothing? It's just projection from people (pornhub consumers in this case) with warped minds - twerking is wholesome otherwise?
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Ah, you were referring to Hollywood in France, my apologies.
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No, I was referring to Hollywood in the US, where execs are the subject of the conspiracy theories I referred to.

Why are you making things up?

In case you’re completely unaware Netflix is a tech company, a studio and a distributor all in one. They have a big HQ in Los Gatos near various tech firms but like most in the movie business they have a large office in Hollywood... that’s a place in the US where a lot of the movie industry is located.

They’ve selected this movie and chosen to market it in a particular way.
 
Marky said:
But I am at a bit of a loss at how that relates to this film?
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He seems to be implying that the target audience is kids perhaps? At least he’s asserted that maybe you’re not the target audience and then elaborated with a link to a vid of a kids program.

Why he can’t just say what he means is a bit odd... but if that was his implication then he might want to note that the film is a 15... while it features an 11 yr old girl 11yr olds aren’t the target audience!

That should be obvious already without that fact being highlighted, but given the other comparisons made and inability to acknowledge some of the issues re: sexualising kids there too I guess it’s not something that registered with him.
 
Ah, seems like #cancelNetflix is trending now.

Wonder how this will work out for them, in reality only a few will actually cancel I reckon, rest might just get angry about it and vent a bit. On the other hand the poster choice was quite blatantly made to stir the pot a bit and I guess now the controversy hitting social media yesterday & today has helped market the film/get people talking about it again.
 
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