Can we talk about Netflix "Cuties"? Men--dads--tell me it's no big deal

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[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

I'd have to watch those movies to have a comment on them. I looked them up on Wikipedia, and the Pretty Baby one sounds disturbing. Can't tell about Blue Lagoon.

[–]Thatstealthygal 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Blue Lagoon is a movie in which Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, who were both young (but he wasn't AS young), play shipwrecked kids who grow up on an idyllic island, discover sex, have a baby and eventually take a boat out to sea and eat poisoned berries to suicide. It's based on an Edwardian (I think) novel and it's both uncomfortable and hilariously bad.

I think OP means Endless Love, in which Brooke Shields plays a teenager who has sex for the first time while her super liberal mother watches joyfully (but unseen); later the boyfriend gets obsessed with her and it all goes horribly wrong.

There was a DEEP fascination with underage sexuality in the 70s, for certain.

Oh and Pretty Baby is DEEPLY disturbing. It's not an "awareness" film as I remember it - it's about a photographer who becomes fascinated by the women who work in a brothel at the turn of the last century, including the child daughter of one of the working girls whose virginity is sold to the highest bidder.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Maybe I am misremembering, but didn' t the director of Pretty Baby try to have Shields naked (or have a graphic sex scene) for it? I remember reading something like that, and that it wasn' t done only because the other actress in the movie (Susan Sarandon?) told the director to fuck off.

[–]Thatstealthygal 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised. I'd forgotten that the storyline develops so that Brooke's character forms a sexual relationship with the photographer who simultaneously treats her like a father, and she's all of 12. It's extremely gross.

I think she's naked on a silver platter in the "auction" scene but in such a way that nothing is really seen.

[–]WrongToy[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Y'all are triggering my memories of long ago Time magazine and my local paper going into how that was uncool at the time (1978). By 1982 however that same columnist was harping openly about how Shields was hot. Shields was 15 at the time.

I really dislike Shields, because when she came of age in 1985, she had a responsibility to step away from the "no one stands between me and my calvins" ads, not get more invested in them given that she was ONLY a celebrity because of her underage pedo-adjacent routine.

When Shields appeared in SVU as a grandma, I had to LOL. That woman has now had 37 years to acknowledge that what happened to her also affected an entire generation of young girls.

She has never acknowledged, let alone apologised.

[–]Thatstealthygal 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm misremembering - the "auction scene" is online and she's wearing a dress that's basically like a fancy chemise. It's a horrible scene because it's like she does kind of understand but also has no real idea.

[–]worried19 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Thanks for explaining. Yeah, the Pretty Baby movie sounds incredibly disturbing and not something I would ever watch.

The Blue Lagoon doesn't sound terrible. But I'd have to actually watch it to get an accurate opinion. Both films are pretty old, and neither appears to be on Netflix.

[–]Thatstealthygal 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Blue Lagoon is basically just terribly, terribly cheesy with dreadful dialogue delivered by two very pretty young people. Their "childlike" discussions about puberty are cringemaking. But it's not that "adult" really. Brooke Shields' hair is artfully draped over her boobs the whole time and she had body doubles for any actually nude scenes (eg when swimming).

[–]WrongToy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Neither of those CP adjacent films needs to be anywhere near distribution. Nor endless love (ty to the one who pointed that out--one of many CP adjacent films I insisted on getting into since it was all the rage and I as a child hadn't grasped CP yet).

Their mention here is a historic artifact that does not need to be watched by a new generation, ever.

[–]worried19 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So you think those movies should be banned? I get the problem with pedophiles, but don't pedophiles seek out any movie with a child in it? They don't need to go out and find a special movie. They can watch a commercial or any innocent kids' film and see the kinds of things they want.

[–]WrongToy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Difference between a kid doing normie stuff in movies and kids doing what was seen in this movie.

[–]worried19 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But there's no difference for the pedophile. He's getting off either way.

[–]WrongToy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We don't need to assist them in any way, however.

Remember Jonathan Yaniv? He's still attempting to catfish children on TikTok while claiming transphobia. He still queries them about their cycle and what feminine products to use.

There's a scene i heard in this video with some girl getting her period and taking a selfie of it. That is strict Yaniv fap material right there. And Yan isn't the only one--we have mods here that used to be involved in the old gc/qt debate sub and one of those guys had a similar period fetish, would carry around pads/tampons in their purse in case 'anyone needs."

If some girl on her swim team has a crotch shot filmed inadvertently, she is still there for swimming. Not twerking. If said video got put on parents' FB group, I'd expect the parent-mods to immediately ban them. There should and is no excuse for it.