🐱 Netflix Movie 'Cuties' Could Be Investigated For Violations Of Child Exploitation Laws

https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-movie-cuties-could-investigated-child-exploitation-laws-matt-schaefer-1531254

Texas lawmaker has called for the Netflix film Cuties to be investigated for possible violations of child exploitation and child pornography following uproar over a poster that sexualizes the young actors—but the film's creator says the film itself has been misinterpreted.


Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, Matt Schaefer has asked the state's attorney general to conduct an investigation.

Schaefer announced his plans on twitter amid calls to "cancel Netflix" which began trending on the site.


"I have asked Texas Attorney General Paxton's office to investigate the @netflix film Cuties for possible violations of child exploitation and child pornography laws. #CUTIES#txlege," he tweeted.


Titled Mignonnes in French, the film sparked hundreds of thousands of calls to #CancelNetflix on Twitter this week, following its release this week.

Netflix's promotional poster for the movie sparked intense backlash last month for showing the child actors wearing revealing dance attire of shorts and crop tops and striking various dance poses, like kneeling on the floor and squatting.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Yeah dude, just watch it! It totally doesn't prove the criticisms correct!

After that description, I feel like I'd get vanned after I hit "play".

 

[NyQuilninja]

I'm usually one to try and form my own opinion so I watched this just now.
Tldr I'm going to take a shower and rethink my life choices especially the ones that brought to watch this "movie."

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I think you underestimate the might of the Texas rangers. Who in France is gonna stand up to a man in a cowboy hat?

The Republic of Texas occupied France, what a 2021 that would be. I tell you what.

Wasteland 4 sounds fun!

 

[The Fresh Maker]

"Don't cancel Netflix guys! There's still good stuff on it!"

So it's okay to keep supporting a streaming service that's blatantly defending child porn because of 2 or 3 good exclusives.

 

[Getting tard comed]

It was directed by a woman.

Director's don't operate the camera on set when filming. That would be the cinematographer and is another of the many, many reasons the intent of the writer/director doesn't matter one iota.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Look at how MovieBob froths at the mouth at the prospect that Netflix will be investigated for child porn.
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Who the fuck is this infidel pig and why should I care.

Unless he is a high ranking member of the DNC or some rich elite cocksucker like Bezos, why should we care about the input of this fat, debased, hedonistic, soulless, degenerate, white infidel pig.

I want to know what Biden thinks about this and is it okay to choke the chicken to legalized Cheese Pizza now. Netflix has heavily contributed to the Biden campaign.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I still don't get what she's thinking making this

 

[Getting tard comed]

I still don't get what she's thinking making this

Islam bad! Sex everywhere bad! Think of the children!

That's the most charitable explanation possible. There isn't one for the casting director, cinematographer, editor, or any of the other crew members who worked on this or the producers.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

This film is against child exploitation but also kinda promotes it, mixed signals, hmmmm.

Maybe they'll get some cop to do a write-up on how exploitative it actually is so we can finally stop playing telephone given nobody wants to actually watch it.

I doubt it'll result in anything besides that, they can't stop Hollywood from exploiting kids in non-sexualized movies so how can they do something about France?

 

[NyQuilninja]

It really makes me wonder and question the motives of the film let me also state that I believe in free speech absolutely as well. Even I cannot find anything defendable in this. As I said upon viewing this there was so many scenes that just felt wrong and appeared highly sexual in nature. There's camera close ups of there private areas as well other sences that had the little girls acting out sexual positions. If a White male had this I feel the outrage would have been outright legendary.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

To compare it to Lolita, or something like American Beauty for a second. Lolita was undeniably fucking creepy, but the shots seemed to be done like a romance film rather than a raunchy film; so for example the scene where Hubert sees her lying down in the sprinklers and she smiles at him would be romantic if she were in her twenties; but the fact that she isn't makes the scene uncomfortable, especially as she is wearing a retainer when she smiles at him.

American Beauty does a similar thing, when the cheerleading sequence happens and she's dancing around; the girls all have this slightly bored expression, but perk up every now and again like a teenager would when they're doing something fun but also obligated. She's clearly not dancing in a sexual way, but he is viewing it as a sexual thing because of his own attraction to her. So you can contrast the way she dances to the way he is seeing her dance and go 'well that's fucking weird'; especially as when it ends it snaps back to her being a teenage girl with other girls her own age grinning normally. While he's staring like a slack jawed pervert.

Cuties doesn't do this, Cuties just does overt glam shots of the actresses. The film could have done a lot of things to avoid doing that, like shooting from an assumed crowd POV, or bystander POV, so it was implying via camerawork that you were just an average joe catching glimpses of this seedy world. From the families perspective so you can show the homelife and how sharply it contrasts with the girls 'rebellion'. But it doesn't. It just runs the film as if it is expecting you to literally masturbate to certain scenes.

Pearl clutching for no reason is dumb, but the film takes a genuinely unsettling subject matter and treats it in a very blase manner. Which doesn't work.

 

[XYZpdq]

This film is against child exploitation but also kinda promotes it, mixed signals, hmmmm.

Kind of like how Japanese war atrocity movies double as "man's inhumanity to man" and "dude fucking splat lol"

 

[Positron]

It was directed by a woman.

So is the author of the infamous pedo manga Kodomo no Jijkan (sp?)

Women can be pedophiles; they can also mercenary seek profits for answering the demands of pedophiles.

 

[Afinepickle]

The movie was made in France and the frogs are two steps removed from making child fucking legal in their eurotrash shithole so absolutely nothing is going to happen to the writer or director. The absolute most that could potentially come out of this is Netflix being forced to remove the movie from its US streaming service in which case everyone in the US who wants to watch it will just use a VPN.

 

[knobslobbin]

 

[A Grey Cat]

Look at how MovieBob froths at the mouth at the prospect that Netflix will be investigated for child porn.
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Ah movie bob, the perfect useful idiot and the ultimate tool up to the very end.

 

[Screw Danlon]

"Don't cancel Netflix guys! There's still good stuff on it!"

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So it's okay to keep supporting a streaming service that's blatantly defending child porn because of 2 or 3 good exclusives.

First of all, what amazing content?

second of all, there is infinite amounts of free content and nearly infinite amounts of paid content out there at this point. Why should anyone spend a penny on anything they don’t like, especially when it’s undeserving?

 

[MahFibro!]

Never claimed otherwise. But part of the leftist defense of the film is centered around it being directed by a black (French-Senegalese) woman. If a dude had made it, this would be a very different discussion in the media.

That's really the sad reality of it all, isn't it? A gross double standard where if a woman makes something shocking/morally reprehensible - it's courageous/powerful. If a man does it, string him up and cancel him for being disgusting pedo.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

That's really the sad reality of it all, isn't it? A gross double standard where if a woman makes something shocking/morally reprehensible - it's courageous/powerful. If a man does it, string him up and cancel him for being disgusting pedo.

You're missing the subtext, which is that women get off easy because they're not held to the standards that men are.

Because they're incapable of shouldering those standards in the first place-- that is, they're only a little more responsible than children.

That's not what I'm arguing, let's not get it twisted. However, plenty of women reason-- and benefit-- according to this idea (whether or not they realize it) and society as a whole condones or encourages us to hold women to these diminished standards.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Shut up, nigger.

Shut up, honky.

Glad you actually watched the movie and are not just talking out of your ass because of American Netflix's poster.

Yeah, so you didn't watch it and just like pearl clutching. Got it.

Seriously though. Was I to post a 30-second clip of some kid striping, but follow it up with a work on par with Shakespeare, most people would reasonably assume that the "artistic expression" behind the work was simply an excuse to post child pornography. I really don't see how "cuties" is any different.