Netflix film -Cuties

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I am shocked this is actually on Netflix. I haven't actually watched it and will not watch it after some of the scenes i've heard are in it,
But after all the controversy, I can't believe netflix haven't taken it down.

I posted on another thread having watched the film.

I watched it and enjoyed the film even if it was uncomfortable viewing.

I thought the film was very feminist and it’s sad that the girls thought behaving in a sexualised way was being ‘grown up’ based on the media portrayal of women, lacking real life role models to counter those false assumptions.

A lot of it rang very true for me being a teenager in the early days of social media- I remember being twelve and being hauled in by parents because our group had been talking on messages about ‘threesomes’ and ‘porn’ without actually really knowing what they were. We went on webcams and spoke to random people on msn, put cameras on and said we were 16. I bought a thong saying ‘welcome to paradise’ aged 14.

It’s uncomfortable but yes it’s not too far removed from real life and thankfully nothing really bad happened to me or the girls in the film. Child actors have done worse things in films, and far far worse things happen in real life.

I think it’s completely hypocritical that many of the groups asking for the film to get ‘cancelled’ are the same ones who say women were ‘asking for it’ and blaming underwear in rape cases. It does speak to a larger problem with how society views girls and women.

You can certainly disagree with the means but the message Itself is thought provoking.

@DioneTheDiabolist

Blaire White and a couple of other Youtubers have watched and reviewed the film and have concluded that it is dire.

You see I'm good with people who have watched it thinking it's dire. It's the manufactured outrage I object to. And it has been manufactured by Netflix and Twitter. Everyone got frothed up into moral outrage and boom! Massive, instant, viral publicity. Thanks to this OP and others like her millions more people now know of this film.

Fair enough

Here is Blaire White's review for anyone interested
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Good grief. It's supposed to hit hard.

Reminds me of the outrage in the late 80s about Home And Away.

After all of the hype I’ve just watched it.

In my opinion it doesn’t need banning. The story for me is about rebellion and a severely unhappy 11 year, who is using her sexuality to rebel against her families cultural believes towards women and her fathers wedding to a second wife.

Yes there’s a bit too much sexualised dancing, twearking and fingers in the mouth, however kids see that kind of stuff in music videos, so if we are going to ban something surely it would be sexualised dancing in music videos ect.

So for me it’s about teens finding themselves, how women are either sexualised or oppressed, and how fucked up todays society is on a whole.

I did think when aunty took Amy to the room to show her how she was to going become a woman it was going down the FGM route, and not cooking, now that (FMG) would have been more controversial!

Watch the first five minutes and you’ll realise it’s an analysis of grief, societal expectations, inequality, injustice, a search for belonging and the complex intimacies of family life. You’re not being unreasonable to be horrified at first glance...in fact, that’s the point. You are absolutely unreasonable to form an opinion and spread it without scratching the surface. Please do watch it, feel the uncomfortable “feels”, and then pass informed judgement if you see fit to do so. This may all sound quite harsh, and I apologise for any offence, but to fire up without watching the film or researching it thoroughly, you are doing a disservice to your otherwise legitimate stance.

Watch the film!!!! Posting without seeing is just uninformed rubish

Thanks to all of the insane outrage associated with this title, I got to watch a very decent movie I most likely would have not watched otherwise. The film is shot from the perspective of an 11 yr old girl desperately trying to fit in, culturally, socially while having to navigate through the confusion of her changing body and everything that goes along with it.

The film illustrates that, in reality, neither culture (traditional African Muslim vs. modern Western European) is particularly friendly to women and their bodies and this reflects heavily on young girls trying to find themselves and their place in this world.

Yes, we live in a misogynistic world and the outrage surrounding this movie only proves the point. It seems that we can't even have an open and honest conversation about how young girls get to experience the world around them without people losing their minds.

This movie gets a solid 7/10 from me.