Netflix's "Cuties" - The Preteen Sexual Objectification Equivalent of "Funny Games"

[MagicalHopStep]

You're retarded and autistic. Know absolutely nothing about movies, how they are filmed, or produced much less the darker side of the business. You should never have kids and if you have any I hope theres a responsible adult in their lives because you clearly aren't fit.

You're argument is "this movie that is sexually exploiting children is OK because it only happens in a few scenes and the overall message of the movie is that its bad" ignoring that the movie is exploiting children in doing it. You dont know how many takes were filmed to get those shots. You don't know who was there. The clip posted above doesn't need context. There is no context to justify filming an actual 11 year old in a sexually suggestive way. That's the camera doing that. Not the action of dancing. The slow panning, the focus of the camera is all done to make an 11 year old sexually enticing and they are touching themselves. You can film it without that. That's the problem.

Seriously, stop it. Get help. You have serious problems.

You are being absolutely ridiculous, as are many of the people in this thread. You don’t know who was there or how many takes there were either. These kids are not being exploited. They are paid actresses, doing this with permission from their parents. No matter how much you try to paint it as one, this movie is not some porn flick. I’m not going to bother replying here more, most likely, because people like you just won’t listen. You’ll just continue to insult me and offensively tag my posts simply for having a different opinion.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

You are being absolutely ridiculous, as are many of the people in this thread. You don’t know who was there or how many takes there were either. These kids are not being exploited. They are paid actresses, doing this with permission from their parents. No matter how much you try to paint it as one, this movie is not some porn flick. I’m not going to bother replying here more, most likely, because people like you just won’t listen. You’ll just continue to insult me and offensively tag my posts simply for having a different opinion.

Christ, man, why are you so adamant on defending this movie? Are you on Netflix’s payroll or something?

 

[Getting tard comed]

Tbf, Lolita was a book first, but I see where you’re going-and I agree

The most horrifying thing about Lolita is the copy I read had a quote from a reviewer(I think from the NYTs but not positive) calling it "The best romance novel of the 20th century".

I'm not a prude or pro censorship but its disturbing as fuck that anybody reads Lolita and considers it a romance or can empathize with an active pedophile. Nabokov pulls every trick in the book to make you sympathize with Humbert in the first half but none of those tricks should work. You can see his though pattern twisting everything to justify his sick actions.

At the very least Lolita as a book has artistic merit to justify itself. This movie legitimately looks like pure propaganda for pedos and child porn. Don't be surprised by horror stories that are come out of this production + audition process in 10 years. It reeks of the types of projects producers use to sleep with cast members.

 

[None More Black]

This will definitely play on a KF Movie Night at some point so I'll wait for that.
If it's smut then it is but I rather see for myself, in full context.

"hmm yes yes i need to see this in full context"

edit:

"if it's smut then it is but i'd rather see it for myself"

 

[The biggest iron]

They are paid actresses, doing this with permission from their parents.

That just makes it worse. Imagine what kind of parent would allow this.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The most I read about this shit, the most I think that whatever the director wanted to say, was not only lost in execution, but her grievances were in a direct contradiction of our own and that's why the message is lost.

I get that her, being from a muslim environment, wants to make a point about how women should be free to explore their sexuality and you shouldn¡t put a five years old in a burka.

The problem is that she doesn't realise that, even though we westerners DO NOT put our girls in a burka, we don't let them dance around like whores either. Or, we shouldn't. There are definitely parents, specially mothers, who pimp their girls up because it's trendy and fashionable. I know, I've seen it and most people are against it.

Thing is, we are condemning the movie for what we're seeing and yes, that's wrong. Alas, there are also many women who encourage or don't pay attention that their very young girls are fans of Selena Gomez and Cardi B and they copy what they do and are. Remember that scene from Mean girls when Regina's sister was copying what she saw on tv? Same situation. I get that she wanted to make a point out of this while also saying that her strict religious family shouldn't be trying to exorcise children for dancing.

I guess her main failure is present actual children doing this when there were better ways to show her points. I really don't think she intended to "sexualize" girls to pander some old pedophiles from the industry, she just did so because she was clumsy and very disconnected with what offends the majority of the audience.

 

[Parthenos]

The problem is that she doesn't realise that, even though we westerners DO NOT put our girls in a burka, we don't let them dance around like whores either.

Considering her background religion is Islam, seeing all Western women without coverings as whores is probably par for the course.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Ok so I'm bored as fuck and watching it so you guys don't have to.

I'm like twenty minutes in and the vibe I'm getting right now is Muslim Precious. Basically the protagonist is eleven and lives with her extremely strict and religious mother in a shitty housing project in France. her aunt who she's much closer to is more westernized and encourages her to defy her mother.

No degeneracy yet, Edit: nvm there's loli titty as she sits in the bath. I'm right at the part where she meets the black girl who introduces her to the booty crew.

So how much worse did it get from there?

 

[AnOminous]

I get that her, being from a muslim environment, wants to make a point about how women should be free to explore their sexuality and you shouldn¡t put a five years old in a burka.

It's horrible to force girls to wear burkas and it's at least as bad to dress them up as whores.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

That just makes it worse. Imagine what kind of parent would allow this.

The same kind of parents who spended Gary Coleman money....

 

[Standardized Profile]

This doesn't matter, either most or all the dislikes are from people who didn't watch it, I'm willing to bet all my money on it.
This is genuine cancel culture at work.

Cancel culture is pulling a firearm so someone can't speak in an auditorium, or threatening a campus so they charge a speaker an exorbitant security fee, or harassing a publisher into cancelling a book, or closing someone's merchant account so they can't do business. This is just people saying they think a movie is shit on third party web sites.

That just makes it worse. Imagine what kind of parent would allow this.

You don't have to go to France or Hollywood for this. There are parents in almost every town who will let you film their daughters dancing, clothed or nude, in exchange for money or meth. These parental pimps just found a slightly classier form of exploitation.

 

[Cyclonus]

 

[Slimy Time]

Wish me luck bros, I'm going to bite the bullet and watch this French garbage.

Edit: 5 mins and we are on to the first prepubescent child dancing....

 

[[Redacted]-san]

And the fact that dumbass antis are still going after lewd anime than this pedo bait, makes me lose hope towards pedo hunters (not like I already have tbh) and most of them are bratty kids/teens which isn't helping. Actually, antis are still not human to me imho.
I'll chill out now.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The low audience scores give me faith in humanity.

 

[AnOminous]

They're apparently pimping this shit hard on Netflix. I was at a normie's place and they were flipping through Netflix shit on their TV app and the listing for this came up in recommended or whatever. These aren't culture war people and they were like wtf is this pedo shit and made some Jeffrey Epstein jokes.

 

[Atatata]

I'll just wait for some youtuber to review it, personally. In the past, there's been youtubers that have complained about toddlers and tiaras and kid asmr getting their videos demonotized on youtube while the original stays up and in full view.

It'll be hilarious to see if they dare do that in this case.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

You know, I thought Netflix stooped pretty low letting Patton Oswalt ruin mst3k, but this...this is sick.

 

[Xerxes IX]

WATCH THE PEDO MOVIE, BIGOT

Between this and the live action Mulan filming near Uyghur concentration camps this bad PR implosion couldn't have happened to a nicer industry.

Cuties having a message against child sexualization doesn't make this better. In fact it makes this movie downright sociopathic. Even if the people behind it believe they have something important to say about the sexualization of young girls, they've sexualized the child actresses and turned them into pedo bait for their "art" and "message". Absolutely sickening.

 

[BScCollateral]

...they've sexualized the child actresses and turned them into pedo bait for their "art" and "message". Absolutely sickening.

I agree. Normally I'm a "watch the film before criticizing it" person, but here the criticism is directed at the act of creating the film.

If you film an 11-year old actress showing off her breast, you have filmed an 11 year old actress showing off her breast. It doesn't matter if your "message" is "This is awful," "This is awesome," or "Call your mom on her birthday." You have filmed an 11 year old actress showing off her breast.