“Cuties” New Netflix film about twerking 11 year olds is the stuff of nightmares.

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[–]worried19 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I find it disturbing that GC feminists are piling on the cancel culture brigade without even seeing the film.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/netflix-apologizes-cuties-marketing-sexualizing-children-1234581341

The inappropriate marketing for “Cuties” stands in contrast to the film itself, which has been largely praised by film critics for handling Amy’s coming-of-age experience with sensitivity. Doucouré uses her “Cuties” storyline to openly criticize the ways in which society puts pressure on young girls to be overtly sexual.

As IndieWire’s Kate Erbland noted in her “Cuties” review out of Sundance, “The girls are preparing to enter a dance contest, and an appearance by their great rivals (the Sweety-Swaggs) lays out what’s to come: The Swaggs are older, more developed, more sexualized, and their moves reflect that. The Cuties certainly don’t understand that even the elder Swaggs are at the mercy of a hyper-sexualized culture and its demands, and that there’s something deeply wrong with a teenager taking her top off in the middle of dance video.”

[–]Happy_face_caller[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The promotional materials from Netflix is a huge problem, even when they changed them it still looks hypersexualized.

It would be great if the film wasn’t literally sexualizing 11 year olds, but criticizing society, but it doesn’t look that way at all. Have you seen the images and trailer? It’s disturbing to look at no matter what your critical approach is

[–]worried19 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not defending the Netflix materials. This director is a female director, and she has spoken about the intent of the movie. It's critical of the environment the girls find themselves in.

https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/390968

To shit all over this female director's work and demand that her movie be taken down when no one has even seen it, that's exactly what cancel culture tries to do to GC. They see something they don't like and the immediate reaction is an attempt to ban it. Just like how they didn't even read what J.K. Rowling wrote before they started shrieking about how evil and hateful she is.

This director is a feminist, and this is obviously a GC sentiment about internalized misogyny that she's expressing:

“Cuties” director Maïmouna Doucouré says her film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last Thursday, mirrors her experience as a young girl, when she wanted to be a boy because of the “injustices” towards women she saw around her.

“I was born in France, I grew up there and this movie is about a lot of traditions I saw when I was young, because when I was a child, my dream was to be a boy,” Doucouré told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the festival. “I didn’t want to be a girl because of a lot of injustices I saw around me. Because of that, I was praying [to] God at 6, 7 years old to make me a boy. I saw that the world could be better and easier as a guy.”

She added, “I grew up in both cultures — my parents are from Senegal and I also have the Western culture. I was often torn between both as a woman. Today, I’m fine, I am happy to be a girl of course, but we have a fight to change the mentality of people about the place of women in society, and the movie is about how to become a woman in our society because it’s a bit complicated.”

https://www.thewrap.com/cuties-director-not-free-sundance-video

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

Oh you are absolutely right, people jump to conclusions and everyone I’ve read that has seen it says the same thing. And sure they are dressed no different than most adolescent girls dance troupes, but it looks bad and is really hard to defend if you watch the trailer.

Maybe we can consume these types of images when it’s “reality” tv, but as a fiction film it’s incredibly worrying.

Netflix has handled it so poorly, I mean those men made this a disaster that could have been avoided probably and they keep fueling the fire.

I am usually the first ones to defend the filmmaker especially a fellow WOC, but this looks so bad and fairly indefensible. I mean twerking 11 year olds? How is that ok?