Well as most of you know, a few weeks ago Netflix released highly questionable promotional material for the film “Cuties” and received considerable backlash for it. Well it has released, and from clips I have seen floating around, it’s about as bad as we thought. I, like most people am not against raising awareness of an issue like child exploitation and sexualization of children, but it does seem like this has gone the wrong way about it doing it.
I might just be a little too forgiving, but I am willing to give the director the benefit of the doubt that she had good intentions in the creation of the film, but I cannot myself support the direction she took in actually meeting that vision. 11 year olds dancing like Cardi B in her WAP music video is not the way to spread awareness about an issue, especially not in a fiction work. I’m not one to be a moral Puritan, and most of the time I don’t care what people want to do with their lives as long as they aren’t hurting anyone else, but Cuties has some blatant red flags and blaring problems with its execution and at least accidentally functions as severe pedobait.
Thanks for that.
I think his conclusions are noteworthy:
Seems like the writer/director felt like they had to make this as absolutely reprehensible as possible in order to shock people in to seeing what is going on with children these days.
I'm kind of split on this. It's obvious that many parents have no idea what their children are doing online and need to really start paying attention. Does this issue warrant using this level of shock, though?
Fuck netflix either way for the way their promotional material framed this movie. I don't think I can bring myself to watch it but if it really is as reactionary as twitter dude said it was it then it's putting out a very important message. Instead netflix just wanted to coast on shock value and pedo-bait.
That doesn't excuse what they did to actual children in order to make this movie.
You are not wrong.
i call bs, hes just a pedo