Netflix's Movie "Cuties"

Greebo said:
No but we tend to be around 5 to 10 years behind so where America is now, is where we will be in 2030.
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Did we ever tell black people they couldn't sit on a bus if a white person required the seat? Or chase them around with white pointed hoods on our heads and a rope in our hands? Do we celebrate wealth and success to the point of being sycophants?

We're not doomed to adopt everything they do, and sexy kids is still a bit of an oxymoron on these shores, thankfully.
 
dowie said:
It’s a French film and Netflix is available across the world, including a large subscriber base here.
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Ah, you were referring to Hollywood in France, my apologies.

dowie said:
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.
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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.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Did we ever tell black people they couldn't sit on a bus if a white person required the seat? Or chase them around with white pointed hoods on our heads and a rope in our hands? Do we celebrate wealth and success to the point of being sycophants?

We're not doomed to adopt everything they do, and sexy kids is still a bit of an oxymoron on these shores, thankfully.
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No but we told black people they couldn't rent houses back in the 50s and 60s. . We only passed laws which made racial segregation illegal in the 60s. In the 40s famous foreign black people were refused to book into some hotels and there was a famous case of a Jamaican cricketer from memory against the Savoy or some other posh hotel .

The Notting Hill Carnival was born out of the race riots the previous year when white far right gangs went into Notinng Hill and targeted 6 black people and assaulted them which then led to the riots where 300 to 400 white people descended on the area and attacked properties where West Indians lived for night after night and assaulted as many black people as they could to try and drive them out of the area.

In the 60,70s and 80s there was the "****-bashing".

So yeah we didnt go for the pointy hats and hanging but we were just as racist.
 
I regret getting involved in this conversation, on reflection it's a subject I couldn't care less about regardless whether it's French or American culture that's driving it.

I offer a genuine apology for taking it off on a tangent.
 
Marky said:
You need to watch a Documentary on it - The whole industry is disgusting and shouldn't be around.
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I have watched the documentaries you're probably referring to. However that's like saying all pop stars and daytime TV actors are child molesters. Just because there are some bad eggs, doesn't mean the millions of children around the world enjoying those sports are doing anything other than having fun and keeping fit.
 
Bug One said:
I challenge you to watch 6 hours of this without killing yourself. :p

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My sisters kid watches all of this sort of thing on YouTube now - I even caught her watching something like this but in another language and still loving it :p

I often joke to my sister that we should just film ourselves having fun with my niece and put it on YouTube for the big bucks :p

But I am at a bit of a loss at how that relates to this film?
 
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.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
I wonder if 'Desmond is amazing' makes a cameo in this
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That is just disturbing. Grown men wearing chaps and thongs salivating over what appears to be mentally ill child dressed like something from one of Lady GaGa's fever dreams. But it's OK, they're gay and progressive so that makes it alright.
 
dowie said:
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.
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Ahhh yess I see, that makes sense. I’m glad I didn’t abide and just kept my mouth shut - sometimes it’s not worth the argument :p

I completely agree with what you have said - I’m not a father, but things like this make me absolutely terrified of being a father to a girl - the way Social Media is these days is scary, and it’s very much unregulated in that sense.

In some way I think the parents need to do better - but Social Media also has a part to play in setting rules on what should and shouldn’t be shared - at the end of the day, we all did silly things when we were younger, but we had the good fortune of not having Social media over our heads with everyone having a camera in their pocket - This now gives everyone a platform, and that’s only going to increase the chances that a poor young girl is taken advantage of by their parents.
 
Wasn't aware of it, sounds like it could be a decent watch. Ironic reaction, considering.

What a world, hey?


In terms of the subject matter, when I was loading the car the other day a young teenage boy was riding down the road on his bike with music from their phone playing and I heard a younger blonde girl, who was riding on the handlebars, sing along at the top of her voice to the chorus: "ride on that dick, ride on that dick". She must have been about 11/12.

Poignant movie.
 
There have been art house films that have certainly skirted these kinds of things in the 70s and 80s but they were niche, where as this is very much mainstream and a bit odd.

Even if it is a social commentary on the sexualisation of children, I'm not sure I actually want to see the sexualisation of children in the process. There are simpler ways of condemning it without actually getting real young girls to demonstrate it.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Did we ever tell black people they couldn't sit on a bus if a white person required the seat? Or chase them around with white pointed hoods on our heads and a rope in our hands? Do we celebrate wealth and success to the point of being sycophants?

We're not doomed to adopt everything they do, and sexy kids is still a bit of an oxymoron on these shores, thankfully.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smethwick_in_the_1964_general_election

If you want a ****** for a neighbour vote Labour.

Following the election result, a British branch of the Ku Klux Klan was formed, and Black and ethnic minority residents in the area had burning crosses put through their letterboxes
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