Why did Netflix allow this film?

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Please take a second to watch the video on this link, this is the final dance scene of the new movie on Netflix called Cuties.

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I cannot understand why Netflix thought this was the right film to add to their selections. These are children.

There are several petitions going round to get this removed off their platform.

The nuance I like is the Elder who comes to the house but is very gentle towards Amy, and tells the mother that it's okay to leave her marriage if the situation is unendurable.

I like that it shows how senior figures in immigrant communities can be actually very understanding of the cultural conflicts their younger generations experience, and can be more enlightened than you'd expect.

Signed the petition. I didn't click the link about the film just went straight to the petition. From the limited images on the petition site the film looks grim.

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Signed the petition. I didn't click the link about the film just went straight to the petition. From the limited images on the petition site the film looks grim.

That's a bit unfair. I imagine that limited images on a petition could make a lot of films look grim!

I've watched the film. It's 50% miserable coming of age drama 50% slow mo scenes of 11 year olds crutches and behind grinding and twerking as if in a strip club.

The post modern response is that the context justifies the content. However the paedophiles on youtube who are delighting about it are surely a sign that this film is only pleasing one audience- paedophiles.

Guy tells how much he found those girls as "sexy"

Does the film give the message that being sexualised is empowering?
Unlike her conservative old traditional culture.
Or is she making the point its 6 of one half a dozen of the other

I wont be watching the film - I find that sort of thing triggering.

I think the message is supposed to be that her upbringing has been so restrictive and conservative that she doesn't have the knowledge and experience to make good choices.

Frothing, eh? Overreacting you think? Come on, say what you mean.

I said what I mean. If I had wanted to say "overreacting", I'd have done so. Your dramatic use of rhetoric doesn't change that.

Actually, the part of the movie which I find most disturbing is the scene surrounding the main character taking an explicit photo of herself and putting it online. It's totally bizarre and there's nothing that obviously triggers it. Okay, we're led to see that she's been viewing a lot of explicit material online on the phone - but it seems such a strange action for an eleven year old, particularly as there's no implication that she's been sexually abused (not that I picked up on, anyway).

Her father's cousin - nephew? - I forget the exact relationship is pissed that she nicked his phone and is demanding that she give it back (this phone which was conveniently unlocked and which nobody noticed that she had) but there's no implication that he's threatening her sexually or physically - he's just angry that she stole the phone and lied about not finding it anywhere. In fact, when she starts to undress for him, his reaction is "what the hell are you doing?" The act itself seems to be a pro pro of nothing and, in a way, the fact that it's unexplained plays the character open to "blame". You can't even pin that on the friends, because their dance routines were not so sexualised before she joined and encouraged them, and they are all pretty horrified by what she has done.

It just made no sense to me and seemed like a really poor taste plot device to get the story from one step to the next.

@Iggypoppie Ffs 🤮
I signed the petition let us hope it works.

I honestly can’t see the point of the petition. It’s been on Netflix long enough for loads of downloads and the clip in the OP is all over the internet. The genie’s out of the bottle now and there’s no putting it back.

And the more attention it gets, the more people will go to watch it...

There's also lots of random fight scenes between the girls where the strip the girl down to her underwear (how handy). If you watch it dubbed into American it comes across as just as even sleazier if that's possible.

The film's directors seemed to have an odd idea of what 11-year-old girls enjoy doing together. It's not been very many years since I was 11, and the girls used to like dancing and coming up with dance routines. It most certainly never involved twerking and touching each other's buttocks. Those things sound like they belong more in an adult male's fantasy of young girls. Unless children have really changed in the last 15 years. The inappropriate camera angles were completely gratuitous. They even managed to get on in during the "religious cleansing" scene. But it was all necessary for the plot of course... twitter.com/Typhlosion1010/status/1304572122090659842

[quote user127819]The film's directors seemed to have an odd idea of what 11-year-old girls enjoy doing together. It's not been very many years since I was 11, and the girls used to like dancing and coming up with dance routines. It most certainly never involved twerking and touching each other's buttocks. Those things sound like they belong more in an adult male's fantasy of young girls. Unless children have really changed in the last 15 years. The inappropriate camera angles were completely gratuitous. They even managed to get on in during the "religious cleansing" scene. But it was all necessary for the plot of course... twitter.com/Typhlosion1010/status/1304572122090659842[/quote]
I have young family members a similar age, I can confirm they most certainly don't dance like that. Yes they listen to questionable music, but it's no worse than what I listened to in the 90's.