Anonymous wrote:Late to the game. Just watched. Feel sick.
I only watched b/c the title of this thread kept coming up and I just watched it before reading the thread. Now I will have gross dreams.

Why was she sexualized? Dad getting a new wife doesn't explain. I get all the girls are sexualized but still. This one, Amy, is from a conservative family.

All of them have way too much freedom.

Also, why did the one girl apparently vomit in the public toilet and that was it? Did that make her worthy of pushing into a river?

I'm so grossed out and WTFed...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's clearly about the challenges of growing up as an adolescent girl in a culture that aggressively sexualizes young women while also depriving young women of any agency around their own bodies. I thought it was interesting to see this idea through the eyes of a Senegalese immigrant girl in a Western country that is not the US, and I also found the way the story explores Amy's relationship to her Muslim culture versus how she relates to the broader mainstream culture to be very thoughtfully done.

It's so dumb that this movie has received tons of negative attention just because Netflix messed up the way it advertised the film. It does not exploit young women. The opposite -- it is a story told from the point of view of a young woman that honestly addresses issues young girls everywhere have to deal with. It made me think a lot about how I responded to sexualized imagery and pressure as an adolescent in the 90s. Plus it's a critically claimed movie that won an award at Sundance, directed by a black woman. The "controversy" around it is dumb. Watch it.

The movie is disjointed. Within a day or the the protagonist goes from getting kicked out of school and posting naked crotch shots to *suddenly* leaving in the middle of a dance contest to go dress her age and jump rope. Ok...