Netflix and "Cuties" = child pron?

[Rev. Rye]

Okay, having finally watched it on Netflix, it turns out there's a lot less focus on the creepy pedophilia shit than a lot of the controversy would have you believe. The twerking, for instance, only comes in a bit more than halfway through the movie. There's no nudity, and several of the cringiest scenes actually show significant disapproval of what's going on. The infamous dance scene near the end, the audience is actually booing many of the most explicitly sexual moves, heavily implying that even if Amy didn't have her sudden attack of conscience, they probably wouldn't have done so well. There's also another scene where Amy made the stupefying decision to lock herself in the bathroom, take a picture of her vagina on what I think is Instagram (thankfully, we don't see anything, which is more than I can say of some other French films). In this case, THE ENTIRE REST OF THE CAST, calls her out on her idiotic decision, and even the Cuties expel her, at least until the dance scene at the end. The movie pretty clearly does not approve of the creepily sexualised dancing, and, even when it's her strictly Islamic family punishing her, well, in this case, they actually have a point. And now, I wish I could find the final scene where Amy's playing Jump Rope with some other kids, and, as the camera slowly pans up, she keeps meeting it to show that she's smiling, far happier than she ever was in her Muslim community or the Cuties, because, as heavy-handed as it might be, it really helps keep things in a proper perspective.

It's worth noting that the director spent 18 months researching studies on how preteens are being exposed to adult content on social media, and that she went out of her way to explain this to the girls' parents, and ultimately, she explained the big theme of the film like this: "Our girls see that the more a woman is overly sexualized on social media, the more she's successful. And the children just imitate what they see, trying to achieve the same result without understanding the meaning, and yeah, it's dangerous."

And for a sobering look on how this phoenomenon's affected another country, see this The Right Opinion video:




In conclusion, Thank Jah this movie wasn't made in Brazil, because it'd probably actually be that bad if it was.