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[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Here's probably the most balanced and rational discussion I've seen on this movie so far, from someone who actually took the time to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJwJRpJMes

[–]owmygenderfeels 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with this comment:

In almost every instance, I’d agree that in order to have a valid opinion, you have to at least watch the thing you’re criticizing, but for something that is potentially pedophilic, I’m all for prejudiced critiques without having viewed the content, simply because the act of viewing the content gives the manufacturers of said content a “win” anyways. And in a world that values quantity of quality (i.e. the story will just read “this is what is trending on Netflix”, without contextualizing that many of the ppl who have caused it to trend were overwhelmingly mortified and have since cancelled their Netflix accounts) it encourages others to make similar content, thus contributing to the increase in more potentially pedophilic content.

It would be like me purchasing an offensive album, so that I can burn it as a demonstration against said offensive album. It still counts as another unit sold at the record company. Purchasing it is counterproductive to my cause, and by doing so, I become part of the problem and not the solution.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Point taken, but in the case of the reviewers in the youtube video they took pains to watch a torrented copy of the video, presumably for the very reason you mention. The danger in something that is as you say "something that is potentially pedophilic" is that the uninformed critiques may in fact lead to a dogpiled popular conclusion that a viewing of the source material does not actually support.

I am not interested in the movie in any way and as such won't comment outside of the observation that Netflix's use of the poster frame was inexcusable.

BTW, if you decide to watch the YT video, there are no clips of the movie shown.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For balance, here's another video from someone who leans conservative and also watched it. Just a caution that this one contains some clips from the movie, though the ones I saw seem relatively mild. However, I played most of this in a tab as audio, so I didn't view most of it. https://youtu.be/EGNWM2OQdxE