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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought it was an excellent film, although certain scenes were definitely hard to watch, but really this is today's world and what kids do.  I am a mother, not a pedo.  I think this film was meant to be a warning to parents.

It came across to me that the point the writer/director was trying to make is that the lead character, Amy, is trying to escape a very patriarchal culture (Islam here, but you could substitute a lot of other extreme patriarchal religious sects), so she latches onto the "modern" vision of female freedom, which is to wear clothes like that, and dance like that.

In the end, where she breaks down on stage, she realizes that she just went from a really conservative culture that demoralizes and oppresses women, sexualizes them and takes away their choices, to the complete opposite side, a totally free-for-all "freedom" that still oppresses and takes advantages of females by sexualizing them, even at a young age.  Both sides sexualize females, the extreme conservative and the "total freedom" side.

She ends up attending her father's marriage to his new second/sister wife in jeans and a long sleeve shirt.  She did not wear her traditional dress she was supposed to, and she ditched the skimpy dance team outfit.  She took the middle of the road by wearing the pants and long sleeve shirt.

My take is that the film was meaning that conservative cultures sexualize females at early ages and so does modern culture - differently, but the same really in the end.

I thought it was a very thought provoking and excellent film about today's culture and supposed feminism (WAP and all that) compared with conservative culture, but then again, I'm a mother and not a pedophile.  I could see where some scenes would be loved by a pedo, but let's be honest, if someone is a pedo they are probably focusing their interest on other images/etc. besides this film.

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excellent take- it is meant to be a warning. The dances are over the top but Amy's father's totally gratuitously taking second wife is also absolutely disgusting and outrageous. The man is depending on  the french taxpayer to already support his first family! And Im an observant Muslim so spare me the cultural relativism. Her father is being selfish and thinking only of himself and not the tarbiyat of his son and daughter.

I think the disgusting dances are supposed to be repulsive b/c too many people think the dances on the pageant shows etc are ok- she had to shock. I don't think they are references to Senagalese culture at all, the dances they copy are Latin American.   The film shows how these are just little girls having fun who have no guidance on how to transition into adulthood other than from overly sexualized entertainment industry. I hope to goodness that the PP is wrong and the dance moves these girls do are not elevated to 'art' for children.   Some ballet is not appropriate for kids either and will make them feel uncomfortable - kids shouldn't be exposed to stuff that make them feel a nasty sick feeling in their stomach - and afternoon with the faun is art but it's not appropriate for kids. [/quote]

Yes to both of these. The complete absence of the ability to think critically or understand things that aren’t literal speaks to how completely dumbed down the average American is. [/quote]

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