I appreciate the take. I honestly find it relieving to hear that this movie is so nonsensical and haphazard. The last thing the world needs is some kind of 'defensible' wackado edgy boundary shifting cultural rally point. Instead we have another example of shit being elevated "simply because". Because the creator is a woman, muslim, French... then it must be the most cultured piece of entertainment ever created.
We laugh "but was it a transgender black muslim woman in a wheelchair" as the effective pinnacle of the oppression stack that somehow generates the only culture we're allowed to consume, but this movie ticks so many of those boxes WHILE being pedo-wank weirdness. Good! This will make everyone sick and set them back for their egotistical pushing of objective garbage.
“I had white hair when I was only 9 years old!”
Hey, that’s interesting, I have noticed that many of my Asian students are graying fast!
Having said that, I think Ben Shapiro’s take on it is essentially accurate. There IS a message in there if you look for it (and it’s not all good about Islam, nor sexy kids) but the sexualization of the kids is way over the top. In fact, it could be argued that a director should never tell kids to do those things just to make a f***ing movie.
I don't buy the "Oh but it shows that girls growing up too fast and being sexualized is a bad thing!" Maybe, but you don't need to show the characters doing these things to make a point, and it kinda ruins the "message" of the film as the director is doing the exact same thing that she's saying it's wrong, kind of like a director making an actor drown a kitten to show how animal abuse is awful, you can find a way to make the same point without doing the thing you're claiming to be against. Still, I'm certain the fact that the director is a black woman it's the main reason why some people defend it.
It's not even really a pedo fetish. Mostly people are just flying into a moral panic over an insignificant, badly, made film. The film thinks it is trying to say something critical about sexualizing children, but it's done by incompetents so most of that falls short and doesn't work.
These people are so retarded they couldn't see how sexually exploiting children in order to make a movie about how sexually exploiting children is bad might be a stupid, illogical idea.
I appreciate the take. I honestly find it relieving to hear that this movie is so nonsensical and haphazard. The last thing the world needs is some kind of 'defensible' wackado edgy boundary shifting cultural rally point. Instead we have another example of shit being elevated "simply because". Because the creator is a woman, muslim, French... then it must be the most cultured piece of entertainment ever created.
We laugh "but was it a transgender black muslim woman in a wheelchair" as the effective pinnacle of the oppression stack that somehow generates the only culture we're allowed to consume, but this movie ticks so many of those boxes WHILE being pedo-wank weirdness. Good! This will make everyone sick and set them back for their egotistical pushing of objective garbage.
Bravo, my cultural overlords! Do it again!
Here is a simple test to determine if "Cuties" is something for you.
"11 year old cameltoes."
If that is not for you, then "Cuties" is not for you.
That I watched that trash because of the media trying to convince me that it was something good is something I will not forgive them for.
“I had white hair when I was only 9 years old!” Hey, that’s interesting, I have noticed that many of my Asian students are graying fast!
Having said that, I think Ben Shapiro’s take on it is essentially accurate. There IS a message in there if you look for it (and it’s not all good about Islam, nor sexy kids) but the sexualization of the kids is way over the top. In fact, it could be argued that a director should never tell kids to do those things just to make a f***ing movie.
Good thing the reaction has been overwhelmingly negative.
Except they know how to work around that...
I don't buy the "Oh but it shows that girls growing up too fast and being sexualized is a bad thing!" Maybe, but you don't need to show the characters doing these things to make a point, and it kinda ruins the "message" of the film as the director is doing the exact same thing that she's saying it's wrong, kind of like a director making an actor drown a kitten to show how animal abuse is awful, you can find a way to make the same point without doing the thing you're claiming to be against. Still, I'm certain the fact that the director is a black woman it's the main reason why some people defend it.
It's a character study (of highly sexualized prepubescent girls).
It's not even really a pedo fetish. Mostly people are just flying into a moral panic over an insignificant, badly, made film. The film thinks it is trying to say something critical about sexualizing children, but it's done by incompetents so most of that falls short and doesn't work.
These people are so retarded they couldn't see how sexually exploiting children in order to make a movie about how sexually exploiting children is bad might be a stupid, illogical idea.
No there isn't. That's an adult.