Why did Netflix allow this film?

[latheritup]

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.

Who financed and produced the film?

women push for sexual routines and ideals on girls as much if not more than men do.

Sadly, yes. Some women have grown up to think there girls can only achieve or be successful by using their bodies in a sexualised manner or through beauty.

Beyond disgust. That clip is a pedophile’s delight. Netflix should take it off. Doesn’t matter what the intention was or is. Netflix is for general family consumption and as such should be held responsible.

Christ the Netflix poster alone looks like a FHM front cover

And what Stripes said - Why is objecting to 11 year olds simulating sex acts for adult entertainment ( the film has an adult rating) considered online policing and cancel culture? It’s not cancelling someone for holding an opinion; it’s objecting to sexualised footage of a child being distributed for adult entertainment.

I'm guessing it's ok because it's only young girls. I wonder what similar "entertainment " is out there for mainstream consumption featuring young boys, which is being marketed as thought provoking/conversation starting/ blah blah? Fuck all I'm guessing.

Absolutely awful. I don’t care what the film is about or what message it has. These children have been taught to dance like this for a movie. They have been sexualised by adults for entertainment. That’s the bottom line. No parent should let their child learn this dance and let them be filmed- the kids are not old enough to consent.
Appalled at Netflix and will complain and sign the petition.

Disclaimer for my last post - I've not watched the film but what I've heard and images I've seen are just another think in a long line of crap that has made me fed up with all the crap our girls have to navigate.

It wears one down sometimes

Surely most of us on the thread want to protect our young girls?

I think it's helpful to find commonalities to start with.

You know the clip shared on Twitter and here? Does it show a) the pointed reactions of the crowd with the woman looking horrified, the child looking confused and the man nodding along approvingly? b) Does it show the protagonist having a breakdown and running off as her two lives collide on stage?

Also anyone who says at 11 they can give their consent disgusts me. I have an 11 yo DD and I can tell you that whilst she could say if she wanted to learn this and be filmed on the surface, she has no deeper understanding of what that might mean 10/20 years down the line or how it could make her feel later on. She is still an innocent child ffs

I have finished the film now, and I thought overall it was thought-provoking, issue-raising and well executed. There were a handful of shots where the camera lingered and the soundtrack was stylised that left me feeling extremely uncomfortable. I'm not sure how deliberate that was, but I'm guessing it was just the right amount of provocation to make it a success with art critics and film festivals.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

Disclaimer for my last post - I've not watched the film but what I've heard and images I've seen are just another think in a long line of crap that has made me fed up with all the crap our girls have to navigate.

It wears one down sometimes

Yep, it does me, too.

I've just seen the two movie posters. This is definitely a case of someone at Netflix needing to lose their job.

Netflix , according to Rolling Stone put the sexualised spin on it.
I agree it makes very uncomfortable viewing {The dance scenes} but here is the article.

www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/cuties-movie-review-1056197/

French poster vs Netflix poster:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378

This article is really useful for understanding how long and by what methods paedophiles have been attempting to infiltrate the left.

Porn. That's all that NF poster is, porn.

Netflix did it on purpose to get media attention. They are not stupid.

@Stripesgalore

Netflix did it on purpose to get media attention. They are not stupid.

Totally. Plus 'sex' (ick!) sells.

We Watched Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ So You Don’t Have To

I don't want to watch a film where just looking at the poster makes me uncomfortable. So, I don't generally watch horror films; I feel pretty much the same when I see posters for horror films as I do seeing that poster. It makes me feel ill. I would say society is being groomed extensively to accept that younger and younger children can be sexualised (for the benefit of paedophiles, obviously).

I remember an MN campaign to stop shops like Asda selling sexualised children's clothing. Let Kids Be Kids? I believe it was a fairly successful campaign.

And yet, here we are.

@MeridaTheBold

Right wing outrage, god how tired. I'm on feminist twitter and not one of us is right wing. As for 'complaining about the dance but not about the culture that creates it' people from across the political spectrum have been objecting to the insidious creep of pornification for years. My mum marched against pornography in the 80s.This isn't a random knee jerk response. It's people who have had enough and can recognise a horrifying new low when they see it.

Yy certain parts of Twitter and MSM are trying to paint this as a right-wing backlash. It isn't. Feminists have been campaigning on these issues for years and on the concerted push to normalise paedophilia. The start of this reminded me of clips of the little boy who does drag. His performances are awful but the Cuties' routines are even worse because they are also filmed like porn.

I agree, the promotion of “drag kids” is another deeply disturbing development. The videos of “Desmond is Amazing” dancing in a sexualised manner while surrounded by adult men waving money at him are troubling to the core. For context, he was 10 and the dance was performed in a gay bar in New York. It was not a one off, he’s done it many times since.

I couldn’t give a stuff about the boy wearing make up if that’s what he wants, but the outfits and way he dances are meant for nothing but titillation and have been normalised to him by his parents.

Of course if we dare criticise it we are called bigots. More and more I believe the adage that we (women/feminists) are being targeted with harassment and erosion of our rights BECAUSE we are the gatekeepers to the children. If we can all be discredited as whiny, no fun bigots then the doors to all sorts of child exploitation are blown wide open.

Agree Jux, I might have put on the French movie aiming it would be a commentary on making our girls grow up soon but I wouldn't put on the US one because it looks like an endorsement. Why else would you plaster these LITTLE GIRLS images everywhere?
And whilst protecting our girls from this sexualisation is imperative, I want my son's protected from it too. O don't want them growing up thinking this is how their peers, their girlfriends, their partners should act.

From IMDB.
None of this is necessary for the point they’re trying to make. None.

‘Of course if we dare criticise it we are called bigots. More and more I believe the adage that we (women/feminists) are being targeted with harassment and erosion of our rights BECAUSE we are the gatekeepers to the children. If we can all be discredited as whiny, no fun bigots then the doors to all sorts of child exploitation are blown wide open.‘

Yes. That’s why it’s older women who keep getting targeted. They want sexual access to younger women and children. They don’t want younger women to listen to older women’s experiences.

m.imdb.com/video/vi3378298393?

Imbd trailer, much more reflective I guess of the movie and far more likely to make me watch it.

I agree that the dance scenes in this are too much. But i also think that at 11 those young girls were mature enough to understand the context. I knew all about sex, consent & various surrounding issues at that age. Im not excusing it in the slightest though and yet if you'd had sex at 11, despite being so worldly and mature that you know ALL about sex and consent, it still would have been rape because at 11 you can't actually consent to sex. Because actually 11 year olds only THINK they know it all