1- Numerous cases of that throughout the film (focusing on her having her first period at one point, her photographing her vagina)Just a reminder that this movie is literally breaking US law, as is the trailer and Netflix execs should be in prison right now for distributing child pornography
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It's because most people haven't actually watched it and don't intend to and get all their information from hearsay from both sides. Usually most people only hear stuff like "it's intentionally shocking" and assume it's a generic french arthouse film while the opposite side usually says shit like what SageInAllFields/ExceptionallyExceptional posted which just makes them think those people are intentionally being retarded because those are the dumbest comparisons I've ever seen and likely only make sense if you've actually watched it.
Well, yeah, it's based on her own background so of course she'd push her families own ideology, especially since it is very sex-negative in nearly all ways despite having child marriages.
Wait, the initial dance group are meant to be underage/teenagers? I was skipping around to find degeneracy and sum up the plot, must have missed that bit.
My point was simply that you can call attention to a thing and decry that thing without actually, ya know, doing the thing you're trying to decry. Sexualizing young girls to decry the sexualization of young girls just seems counter-intuitive to me. Why not just have the girls, now grown women, come in to talk about their experiences? That would make actually getting 11 year olds to dress like cheerleaders turned part time prostitutes to twerk in front of a camera completely unnecessary. That they thought there was no better way to address this topic than to actually film the intentional sexualization of underage girls is deeply disturbing to me.
Can someone just cancel this jaundiced fatass already?
Children being exploited? Bob is the real victim!!
No kidding. The film portrays the girl's rebellion against her strict, conservative, religious zealot parents as something heroic and triumphant and the heart of the "coming of age" theme of the story. But it's clear from everything we see the girls do from dangerous sexual promiscuity to distributing child pornography and shoplifting that the only thing her parents did wrong was give her too much freedom. Everything that happens in the movie totally validates their prudishness.
Thing is, they could have told this story with the same clips, but remove all the close up shots of the kids' asses and crotches and all this disturbing shit. The entire point is to show young girls trying to emulate trash/whore media at a young age. You can do that in a lot of ways without making it sexual. The elements are already there - stealing money from her mother, stealing a phone to use messenger, watching twerk videos, acting bitchy, not helping mother up when she collapses, becoming more violent etc. Those elements are there. They could even dress them in some of the clothes they wore near the end. What really isn't needed is the twerk dancing and more raunchy aspects of the film. They are 11.
I don't know what I'm more angry at, the people who made this shit or the people trying to politicize it. This is one of those things where two people who'd never agree on anything politically would look at this, stop what they're doing, and ask each other "Are you seeing this fucking shit?" This has nothing to do with left or right wing politics. If these people are desperate to save this movie's reputation by saying "You're a right winger if you don't like it," they shouldn't be surprised when they wake up tomorrow and find people across the political spectrum lining up to tell them to go fuck themselves with a pine cone.
