“Cuties” has Released Despite Backlash

posted 4 years ago by 666sadfrogs 4 years ago by 666sadfrogs +59 / -1

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.

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– ajfofjakf 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Thanks for that.

I think his conclusions are noteworthy:

After some thought , the film is almost unthinkably reactionary. While the imagery is gross and repugnant. I find it hard to believe this was anything other than a direct attack at hip hop, social media , and lack of basic morals in the west.

the cinematography should be killed. But the reality is the film despite its pedophelic nature , is a giant fuck you to the west and our porn culture that poisons even children. its , dare i say it redpilled

done some more thinking. I think every parent should be forced to watch this movie until they throw out their kids technology and dont allow them to leave the house without a male of the family"

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.

hearing that the director intended this to be a giant critique of western culture. If true this movie is based and the pedo scare worked at maybe getting a billion dollars in free advertising.