And -- from what I gather from the coverage -- becoming disillusioned with the whole premise once the thrill of rebellion against parents is gone.
Action movies have a lot of murders. Nobody actually died.
Mystery movies have a lot of liars. Nobody was actually deceived.
Cuties has a lot of child sexualization. Children were actually sexualized.
What we're quibbling over now is if the message of the film justifies it - and my answer would be no, there is no message conceivable that would do so.
"You might like child sexualization - try it!"
Oof.
it's really about how our culture, amplified by the internet, makes kids believe think twerking at 11 is a good idea, but the kids eventually reject it, and go back to being kids.
You don't get this context if you watch just the first few minutes of it, or shouty media commentary about it.
It did get everyone talking about the problems of media sexualizing(is that word?) kids.
So maybe it's a great documentary! Not sure.
This is like making a movie about why dog fighting is bad and having a movie poster depicting dog fighting in a glamorous light but then having to watch the movie to show that's it's a problem. This is even worse though because children are more easily influenced by what is culturally acceptable. I know the whole 'save the children' is overused now but this is actually a situation where children really should be protected, and I as parent shouldn't have them assaulted by this.
You keep calling this a documentary- it’s not. This is a fictional movie where the creator chose to script, direct, film, and produce scenes of hyper-sexualized little girls.
Do we as a society want our children to think that it's ok for children to be sexualized like this? Yes, I know the argument is that the point of the movie is the opposite, but I'm not going to let my children watch it so that the 'learn' this message. The message should be self evident and not need a movie to make the point. Some may disagree but as a parent I feel very strongly about this.
I don't know why people are acting like they amped it up only for the poster. Well, if all you paid attention to was Netflix's lame excuse you could certainly get that impression since they did everything they could to imply that was the case.
Except that's not what happened. They profiled a scene - one scene! If anything there are far more crazy/disgusting scenes in the movie than just that one.
The poster is a red herring. The problem is the movie and it's content. Always has been, still is.
Really? Were they unclothed? If not, perhaps there’s a different message here that you may have missed?
Go watch “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”, which I believe you’ll find on Netflix too. You’ll totally cheer along when they murder the fat man, who completely deserved it BTW. Though if you’re still cheering when they watch the home video they made of themselves murdering that entire family, then you may have missed the point of that film too.
Good film is a mirror on real life. And if real life doesn’t make your skin crawl, it’s either because you haven’t realized you’re a participant in it too… or because you actually enjoy it.