🐱 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.

 

[Opinion Discarded]

"You can put the handcuffs away Officer, I assure you that the 11 year old girls only hump the ground and twerk in skimpy clothing to show that pedophilia is bad."

 

[YandereDev_]

At this point, I have no confidence that anything will even come of this. The execs behind all of this are probably going to get off scot-free or 'suicide' anyone that could really incriminate them.

 

[onionbrowser]

I hate Dick Masterson's defense of this, the issue isn't that they're addressing child exploitation/sexualization, it's that their way of exploring those ideas is by literally having children do it in the most upfront, visually repulsive way possible. The fact that it's a live action movie makes it so much worse too, because that creates ACTUAL exploitation, as children had to be auditioned for these roles, scenes had to be shot several (if not more) times over the course of a couple months probably, which makes it so much worse than if this was some dumb anime thing about the same shit.

I don't remember the name of the comic strip, but there was a short series that was sort of a parody of calvin and hobbes type stuff that was about a little girl being sexually abused by her father. At no point do you have to SEE a child be violated to understand that, or emphasize with her, instead it is hinted at with dark visual gags and abstractions on the concepts of abuse and sex. That comic isn't exploitive cause firstly it is drawn, so no real child had to be subjected to ANYTHING for it to exist, and secondly it uses the medium it exists within to actually make art from something morally wrong.

If they were deadset on making this a live action feature film, maybe age the girls up to their late teens or 20s and tell the SAME story, or actually try harder and make a movie that requires you to think instead of gawk at actual exploitation, they clearly knew showing underage nudes was a big no no so they did that there. So they were willing to draw the line somewhere, so I think it is natural that people would ask "Why did you draw the line there then? Showing crotch shots and very sexual dancing?"

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Having watched the film I can say that it's pretty fucking well done as far as softcore porn goes.

Because that's the way that it's filmed when it lingers on the children doing real gross shit; as if it were a softcore wank film. The film is either made by a pedo, or made by someone who can so uncannily get inside the mind of a pedo that he can perfectly mimic the way a pedo would look at a child that he'd be better off serving society by tracking them ala Criminal Minds.

 

[UselessIdiot]

Look at how MovieBob froths at the mouth at the prospect that Netflix will be investigated for child porn.
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This is the hill they want to die on? Thinking that this film is unnecessary and disturbing is "ignorant" and "backward", according to these upstanding progressives?

Leftism is cancer.

 

[OttoWest]

Having watched the film I can say that it's pretty fucking well done as far as softcore porn goes.

Because that's the way that it's filmed when it lingers on the children doing real gross shit; as if it were a softcore wank film. The film is either made by a pedo, or made by someone who can so uncannily get inside the mind of a pedo that he can perfectly mimic the way a pedo would look at a child that he'd be better off serving society by tracking them ala Criminal Minds.

It was directed by a woman.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

It was directed by a woman.

Are women unable to be pedos?

 

[Gottahavemysips]

At this point, it doesn't matter what Netflix or people who have seen the movie say - it doesn't matter what the movie is "actually" about. The film became a pedo movie the second Netflix chose to put out marketing materials that portrayed it as such. The fact they put out marketing materials like that was no accident, they wanted backlash for pulling such a brazen stunt, but they probably never expected it to this level.
At this point, anybody who still chooses to defend this shit should understand that they are choosing to die on the hill of defending a pedophile movie, which really is not worth it.
Even if the film itself was to be against child exploitation, the very idea of supporting a film that essentially exploited children in order to get that point across is kind of sickening. Imagine defending a film that involved beating real animals in order to make a point about how awful animal cruelty is? Doesn't seem worth it.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

It was directed by a woman.

Then that woman is real good at making softcore wank films.

To advocate for the pedo for a second; the 'message' of the film is sort of there, and I can sort of see what they were supposedly going for. But the film is shot like some sort of glamour softcore shoot. It's just fucking creepy.

 

[The Demon]

Having watched the film I can say that it's pretty fucking well done as far as softcore porn goes.

Because that's the way that it's filmed when it lingers on the children doing real gross shit; as if it were a softcore wank film. The film is either made by a pedo, or made by someone who can so uncannily get inside the mind of a pedo that he can perfectly mimic the way a pedo would look at a child that he'd be better off serving society by tracking them ala Criminal Minds.

Thank you for your sacrifice

 

[X Prime]

Come on @Y2K Baby, there is no need to cover for the missing @Senior Lexmechanic in here.

 

[OttoWest]

Are women unable to be pedos?

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.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Come on @Y2K Baby, there is no need to cover for the missing @Senior Lexmechanic in here.

Ninja'd by 4 fucking minutes

 

[Syaoran Li]

It was directed by a woman.

Female pedophiles do exist although they're statistically less common.

The novelist Marion Zimmer-Bradley was a notorious lesbian pedophile who sexually abused her own daughter along with several other girls she knew in the hippie subculture and Sci-Fi/Fantasy circles. She even tried to start the lesbian equivalent of NAMBLA under a fake name, but it didn't really go anywhere. Matter of fact, she was even in a mutual beard marriage with Walter Breen, a notorious pederast.

As much as I'm disgusted by the movie Cuties, I honestly don't think this case could really ever go anywhere unless it catches a miraculously lucky break and the case goes federal.

 

[Empty]

It was directed by a woman.

And female pedophiles are as bad as male pedophiles

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

And female pedophiles are as bad as male pedophiles

They just think "muh double standards" will save them.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

It's not the fact they're showing the little girls titties, or making the girls taking vag pics, or the twerking

Wait, what the fu--

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Wait, what the fu--

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

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

Not to be pedantic but does Texas have jurisdiction over this movie? It’s a French film being broadcast on a Californian video service. Can Texas choose to selectively ban a movie in its own boarders? It certainly doesn’t have jurisdiction to interview the producers/directors/actors right?



Why is he so vehemently defending children performing lewd acts? Like why is this your hill to die on

Because Bob lacks the ability to think for himself and will blindly defend anything the blue check marks on twitter consider progressive. Combine that with Bobs belief that anything progressive is automatically good and will bring on the moon wheat and immortal robot body he so desperately craves and presto. Bob is defending pedophilia.

 

[Red Hood]

I thought the director lived in France or something? What would this even do? It's not like Texas can send state police over to France to grab the people responsible.

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.