Cuties on Netflix

Imagine what is going on inside the lefties head right now as they try to find some justification to defend netflix/hollywood pervs xD

And yeah, I already know what they are going to say: “let girls have fun, omg like it’s just a movie, like actually the movie talks about the negativity of social media like, omg you guys are such bigots, young girls can twerk too, cardi b is a role model, there’s nothing wrong with children having fun”

But even if they say that the movie’s message is actually positive, it still not okay to use real children to make the movie, twerking and acting like cardi b. Usually in this kind of movies, directors would at least use 18 year olds pretending to be kids… oh well.

I always take it for granted that sexual moralizing in public is a sign of hypocrisy or worse. And often a desire to perform the very act that is being condemned.  – Christopher Hitchens.

Truer words have never been uttered. But this goes both ways. For the woke who criticize the male gaze and want to desexualize women in games. But I also find those  suspect who are way too quick to cry pedophilia.  I’m pretty sure you can find videos of 14 year olds twerking all around the net. (Haven’t checked, but I think tiktok will have you covered) So really why are you only up in arms about this now that it’s put on netflix, a mainstream outlet?

if you were really concerned about the chirdlen why are you only concerned now?  I call fake outrage. Just as the SJWs like to fake outrage about everything they are guilty of at least on the thought crime level.

Jeremy and the Friday Night Tights crew dropped the ball on this one.   They took one look at the marketing and proceeded to tell me to fuck myself for not condemning the movie when it was Netflix that was entirely out of line with the marketing and did not represent the film’s intent accurately.

Doucouné based the film on what she saw at a talent show in Paris

https://www.screendaily.com/features/director-maimouna-doucoure-reveals-the-shocking-inspiration-behind-sundance-drama-cuties/5146481.article

Ignoring the SJW rhetoric in the article, here’s an important bit where’s she’s discussing what she saw,

“There were these girls on stage dressed in a really sexy fashion in short, transparent clothes,” she recalls. “They danced in a very sexually suggestive manner. . .I was transfixed, watching with a mixture of shock and admiration. I asked myself if these young girls understood what they were doing.”

And here’s a wiki review from someone who actually saw the movie,

In a postive review, Variety said “Newcomer Youssouf has an anchoring presence. Occasionally, Doucouré lets her light up the screen with a smile, and at the director’s most expressionistic, the girl floats.” Though it noted that the film is aiming to get more “gasps than laughs” with its dance numbers.[28] Other reviewers noted that the film is intended to criticize “a culture that steers impressionable young girls toward the hypersexualization of their bodies”[29] and “seems to want to provoke censure”[30] by including “close-up crotch shots of pouting pre-teens”.

I haven’t seen the film, so maybe it does miss the mark in execution but the intent matters and Doucouré’s intent was to bring attention towards the issue of hypersexualization of minors.

Jeremy and others bandwagoning “cancel netflix” over this is hypocrisy of a grand scale.  They’re calling for the exact same thing they condemn others for daily, with this “cancel netflix”, “if you support this I don’t want your support” crap.

The issue isn’t the film, it’s the subject matter, and calling out just Netflix for distributing a film intended to bring attention to a real issue is just as disgusting as the SJW cancel culture.

If the movie is actually a documentary that criticizes the sexualization of children and condemns it then a lot of people including myself will have been wrong in our initial reactions to it. From the pictures I’ve seen it looked like it glorifies flamboyancy in young girls, and the girls certainly look like they consider themselves as movie stars. I know that it’s probably not something meant for children to watch, but if children get exposure to this sort of imagery they’ll want to emulate their cool-looking peers who look like they’re having fun. Parents might also feel encouraged by this movie to raise their children in the manner portrayed, which is another potential unintended side-effect of the movie.

The crying Indian environmental commercials of the 70s caused a spike in people throwing garbage out of their vehicles because they saw it represented as the descriptive normative attributed to the wider society, and people intrinsically seek to gravitate as close to the perceived social norms as possible on an unconscious level. Simply put, everyone has a tendency to copy the behavior of their peers and the perceived majority.

While I’ll admit it isn’t a Hollywood film, the fact that Netflix still approved the poster still speaks volumes

It does, but I don’t hold the entire company responsible for what was likely the ineptitude of one or two people.  I think we should hold them accountable to fix the marketing properly, not call for cancelation of the film.

It wouldn’t have been executives who cut the trailer or watched the film.  I’m willing to bet before the backlash netflix exec’s weren’t even aware of the film’s existence.  Netflix has quality control and acquisition teams that secure the rights for their films to be shown.  Even then, those same people more than likely didn’t control the promotional material.  It’s not uncommon for people who make movie trailers to be given a series of clips of a movie instead of the whole film along with maybe a brief description and told to make a trailer.    The poster is likely a result of the same situation.   It was ridiculously mishandled and netflix is on damage control right now, which is correcting what people are taking issue with (poster/description) and hunkering down hoping it will all blow over.  If it doesn’t blow over they’ll take additional steps, up to and including removal of the film from their library.   It’s the way corporations handle these issues and it isn’t right, but at least a change to the promotional material is happening.   I just want the film to stand on its own merits and have a chance to promote its message as intended.  I don’t want it removed or unnecessarily censored because of bad marketing and snap judgements from people who haven’t looked into the film, which is what a lot of youtubers (almost all of which I subscribe too) are doing right now.

I can’t speculate why they used actual 11-year old girls in the film other than possibly authenticity.   It’s particularly shocking in America, but the age of consent in France is 15.  If they’d used 15 year old girls in the film there’s a chance of it just appearing as another dance movie.  It’s possible they went younger by their own standards to try to make people take notice of the issue and add authenticity in an environment where the girls are nominally looked after and couldn’t be taken advantage of.  And before you say it, yes, I understand a movie set isn’t historically a place where young actresses are safe of exploitation but we haven’t heard any evidence or claims of this having happened on this set.  So speculation on what might have happened on set isn’t the way to go.

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