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

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[–]green_olive 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, this was deliberate. If they wanted to make a feel-good children's / coming-of-age movie about sports they have a lot of options such as soccer, basketball, track and field, rollerblading team, skateboarding team, or another appropriate style of dance (it looks poverty is a major theme in this movie so those would be some examples of sports I can see fitting in this film). At no point should twerking even be considered an option for a film about pre-teen girls and if it wasn't deliberate than this is an insane level of incompetence.

[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is not a children's movie. It's for adults, by a female director.

[–]green_olive 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the info you posted. The critique of over-sexualization aspect of the movie wasn't that well conveyed in the American poster, Netflix description, and the trailer. Considering the nature of the content they should have been more sensitive about it. Big failure on the advertiser's side.

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

What bugs me is that a female director is taking the brunt of criticism for something that (no doubt) male executives did. Which is pretty much the same old story. Men do something shitty, women pay the price.