Cancel Netflix - Cuties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched it and trying to process. Thoroughly engrossing. Powerful depiction of early adolescents trying to make sense of sex, plus immigration and culture clash. Didn't see any of the ads - there are certainly shots of kids dancing in hyper sexualized fashion.

For this film, context is everything. It's a powerful argument for the importance of parents who are present and able to help kids navigate their burgeoning sexuality.

My concern is for the girls acting in the film. Apparently they are 13/14. How are they affected by the roles they're enacting, and by the sexual interest they're inevitably evoking? Who's helping them make sense of this use of their own sexuality?

In a way it makes me think of a production of Madama Butterfly in which the role of Cio Cio San's 4 yo son is played by a marionette. Very powerful, in part because there's no way you can use a real child to act out their mother's suicide. Whatever the cause of "art," you just don't put kids in that situation. Likewise with these girls.

Agree with PP, watch it before it gets pulled. And please don't prattle on about it if you haven't seen it.

So don't talk about the child porn until to have watched the child porn to appreciate the "context"? Got it.

Oh please, advocate to get rid of the Duggars and the Bates and Toddler's and Tierras, actually all of TLC pretty much.

Your whataboutism is showing...

[Anonymous]

There’s an important point many are missing about this film. It’s a French movie by a Senegalese immigrant. It has nothing to do with your pearl-clutching prudish American culture. As a matter of fact, the danse scenes are typical of traditional Senegalese dancing. Just watch the video below to understand.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oKZM1XAbREQ

[Anonymous]

I see both sides. I don’t think it’s “child porn” and I think that’s an upsetting comparison. While I see the value of the cultural commentary, I feel very sad for those young actors. How will they feel about it in three or five or ten years looking back on it? Will they be embarrassed or feel exploited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what's the controversy?

Child porn

like dance moms?
Why was dance moms on for 9 seasons?

The dance routine was exactly what Dance Moms did for 9 seasons. The dance routine is a small part of the movie. People need to watch in it's entirety before criticizing. There have been movies like this in the past and there wasn't a big outcry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so totally disgusting. I saw some clips of it on twitter and yeah- it's basically CP. Gratuitous close up crotch shots of 11 year olds. I cannot for the life of me believe Netflix signed off on this. It boggles the mind.

Do you also think Wayfair is selling children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you don't like it don't watch it.

Easy......


I'm sure you feel the same way about all the TLC shows, like the Duggars and the Bates, Go ahead and advocate to cancel TLC...

I am guessing the main reasons Republicans are pissed off is because its black girl, they never said anything about dance moms or toddlers and tiaras or anything other show that is showings girls skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you don't like it don't watch it.

Easy......


I'm sure you feel the same way about all the TLC shows, like the Duggars and the Bates, Go ahead and advocate to cancel TLC...

I am guessing the main reasons Republicans are pissed off is because its black girl, they never said anything about dance moms or toddlers and tiaras or anything other show that is showings girls skin.

Bingo!! That's it! It's a mostly black cast and black director. Hence the outcry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so totally disgusting. I saw some clips of it on twitter and yeah- it's basically CP. Gratuitous close up crotch shots of 11 year olds. I cannot for the life of me believe Netflix signed off on this. It boggles the mind.

Are you also fighting for the cancellation of child beauty pageants? As in, young children dressed and made up like adult women, dancing on stage for old men judges?

How is that relevant to this thread in any way?

You really should validate that those are undoctored shots from the movie; the close up could have been cropped videos themselves.

As for the movie, I’m not planning to watch, but I believe judging from the director and story around it that it attempts to be a critique, but I will let those who actually watch it speak to it.

Beauty pageants are exactly the kind of sexualization of even YOUNGER children that should be stopped. How dense can you be not to see that?

Make your own thread about it. No one is stopping you.

But that's not ACTUALLY what you care about, is it? You're just mad people are pushing back hard and disgusted by this CP. And you're trying to derail

NP. It's a logical extension of the discussion. The fact that it doesn't convenient fit into your poorly reasoned argument does not make it a derailment.

So far all I've seen is the director interview and its clear it's meant to be a critique of what real freedom is. Spoiler: young girls wearing sexy clothes and doing provocative dances does not equal freedom. It's a commentary against those things, held up against the backdrop of the opposite end of the spectrum (being forced to cover your body and do what men tell you to do is not freedom either).

Compare that to the child pageant culture, which rewards parents for sexualizing their children starting from preschool age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what's the controversy?

Child porn

like dance moms?
Why was dance moms on for 9 seasons?

The dance routine was exactly what Dance Moms did for 9 seasons. The dance routine is a small part of the movie. People need to watch in it's entirety before criticizing. There have been movies like this in the past and there wasn't a big outcry.

You are falling for it. Once there is "precedent" they will push the boundaries further and further. Shameful. Those zoomed in angles and gyrations. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so totally disgusting. I saw some clips of it on twitter and yeah- it's basically CP. Gratuitous close up crotch shots of 11 year olds. I cannot for the life of me believe Netflix signed off on this. It boggles the mind.

Are you also fighting for the cancellation of child beauty pageants? As in, young children dressed and made up like adult women, dancing on stage for old men judges?

How is that relevant to this thread in any way?

You really should validate that those are undoctored shots from the movie; the close up could have been cropped videos themselves.

As for the movie, I’m not planning to watch, but I believe judging from the director and story around it that it attempts to be a critique, but I will let those who actually watch it speak to it.

Beauty pageants are exactly the kind of sexualization of even YOUNGER children that should be stopped. How dense can you be not to see that?

Make your own thread about it. No one is stopping you.

But that's not ACTUALLY what you care about, is it? You're just mad people are pushing back hard and disgusted by this CP. And you're trying to derail

NP. It's a logical extension of the discussion. The fact that it doesn't convenient fit into your poorly reasoned argument does not make it a derailment.

So far all I've seen is the director interview and its clear it's meant to be a critique of what real freedom is. Spoiler: young girls wearing sexy clothes and doing provocative dances does not equal freedom. It's a commentary against those things, held up against the backdrop of the opposite end of the spectrum (being forced to cover your body and do what men tell you to do is not freedom either).

Compare that to the child pageant culture, which rewards parents for sexualizing their children starting from preschool age.

It doesn't matter what the director intended if the execution is POOR. Stop making excuses for this degeneracy. All of this theorizing and narrative is just the sugar coating on a poison pill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you don't like it don't watch it.

Easy......


I'm sure you feel the same way about all the TLC shows, like the Duggars and the Bates, Go ahead and advocate to cancel TLC...

I am guessing the main reasons Republicans are pissed off is because its black girl, they never said anything about dance moms or toddlers and tiaras or anything other show that is showings girls skin.

Bingo!! That's it! It's a mostly black cast and black director. Hence the outcry.

This exactly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you don't like it don't watch it.

Easy......


I'm sure you feel the same way about all the TLC shows, like the Duggars and the Bates, Go ahead and advocate to cancel TLC...

I am guessing the main reasons Republicans are pissed off is because its black girl, they never said anything about dance moms or toddlers and tiaras or anything other show that is showings girls skin.

Bingo!! That's it! It's a mostly black cast and black director. Hence the outcry.

This exactly!

Not everything is about race. Stop reaching.

[Anonymous]

"blah blah blah black people." You guys are down to your last two brain cells to rub together. The hate for this movie has nothing to do with black people in any way shape or form. Here's a little clip posted to reddit of the movie showing some of the dance "from senegalese culture" (I can't believe someone actually wrote that drivel):

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/iq4a2u/netflixs_cuties_everyone_trigger_warning/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"blah blah blah black people." You guys are down to your last two brain cells to rub together. The hate for this movie has nothing to do with black people in any way shape or form. Here's a little clip posted to reddit of the movie showing some of the dance "from senegalese culture" (I can't believe someone actually wrote that drivel):

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/iq4a2u/netflixs_cuties_everyone_trigger_warning/

This is the scourge of identity politics. They justify pedo and criminal behavior so long as the identity politics are not jeopardized. Very uncomfortable viewing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you don't like it don't watch it.

Easy......


I'm sure you feel the same way about all the TLC shows, like the Duggars and the Bates, Go ahead and advocate to cancel TLC...

I am guessing the main reasons Republicans are pissed off is because its black girl, they never said anything about dance moms or toddlers and tiaras or anything other show that is showings girls skin.

Bingo!! That's it! It's a mostly black cast and black director. Hence the outcry.

This exactly!

Of course! It just HAS to be about race! You are so smart PP!