Could someone tell me what Netflix "Cuties" is all about? Why all the controversy? (Page 2)
Click "Show More" for your mentions
Most Helpful Opinion(mho) Rate.
Learn more
Learn more
We're glad to see you liked this post.
You can also add your opinion below!
What Girls & Guys Said
Opinion
65Opinion
Um because underage girls are sexualize as they joint a fucking twerk team people have a very very very good reason to extremely pissed off about that shit. If you had a little girl you'd be cool with her dressing like a 12 slut who shakes her ass all over the place
I watched it due to the controversy because some people were saying it's actully a good movie and true to life. I disagree, and think it should be taken down.
In the movie the 11 years old try to suduce, discuss blow jobs and lying about thier age to get with older guys.
Its basically a how to get layed guide for 11 years olds 😓
it's about issues with imigration ethnicity and children watching highly sexualized content on the internet, not having any sex education, not knowing that it's actually sexual in nature and then emulating it.
so the film does rise some very valid issues but the film depicts children in basically softcore porn fashion to get the point across. that's the controversy. cause the actors were actually underage so what they did was technically illegal.
They are upset with the sexualization of underage girls in it. Never watched it but this is what they are protesting, that its having little girls in sexual poses, twerking, done up in makeup to look more sexualized in very revealing clothing and this bothers many people (and in my opinion with good reason).
As far as I can tell, without watching the film, the controversy comes from people who have had no problem with Dance Moms, which is in its 8th season and contains no less child pornography. But it's an election year, and fear and distrust gets votes.
Don't trust any allegations unless they've been verified, it looks like people just love throwing around unfounded lies.
This is a French film with subtitles; how many people would have watched it without all the fuss?
It also is part of and feeding into the QAnon conspiracy theories. Did you know that QAnon/Pizzagate is simply recycled early 20th century propaganda? ↗
It is disgusting, girl. Don't bother. It is way beneath you. I never heard of garbage on like that with Netflix. I have been seeing the scenes of young 11 yr olds and I am sick to my stomach. What mom would allow their daughter to do this? Very sexual and disppictable. You should cancel it like millions are now doing.
You never saw it.
@COMMODOREII I saw enough... Yuk.
They're way underage. They put an almost rape scene. Where one of the little girls starts taking her clothes off in order to get out of a conversation with who I presume is her father. Its just fucked up for that age however wouldn't surprise me if thats how it is in parts of the world
The movie speaks against sexualizing children. But to sexualize children to speak against it, and making it 10x more showing and apparent than irl to protest against it is absurd. It's like trying to deter people from lighting a campfire in a forest by put the entire fucking forest on fire and saying "this is what could happen if you light a campfire in the forest!" The writers are clearly not very bright or are just playing stupid.
I have seen people on here saying it sexualizes children. but i watched seen the little preview on Netflix and i think its more about how our culture forces children to sexualize themselves. they are dancing for a competition or something (i think) so it no worse than those beauty pageants for kids we have in america
And beauty pageants are gross too
@IAMNathanael They are, but notice the relative amounts of outrage. For that, or Little Miss Sunshine, or Dance Moms (which has had an episode "Topless Showgirls" removed from circulation, six seasons ago). This is obviously being blown out of proportion.
It’s an attempt to normalize kids in porn disguised as something else like empowering girls.
One of the producers is a convicted child molestor.
Who told you that last part? Strangely, it sounds like the sort of claim made without evidence in an election year. Like the ones claiming it's child pornography, but Dance Moms isn't.
I went back & looked. Not a producer... On the Quartering youtube channel (comics focused non partisan) a comment said the co-founder of the Sundance film festival that gave Cuties an award was arrested for child sexual abuse. “Sterling Van Wagenen, who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, has been sentenced to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child.”
Not sure how connected it is to Cuties. As far as “election year”, there’s a trend by movie makers to test boundaries that had nothing to do with the election. It’s been going strong for many years in my opinion.
Sundance was founded in 1978. This is the sort of tenuous little speck of truth these great big lies are based on.
"[Van Wagenen] has no current connection to either [Sundance festival or institute], and hasn't since he left our Utah Advisory Board in 1993."
Okay, now tell us why you think bashing pedos is an election year thing. It implies that being against pedo bashing is an election year thing too. I believe both Democrats & Republicans generally don’t like pedos.
You're obviously right, of course.
Did you know that QAnon/Pizzagate is simply recycled early 20th century propaganda? ↗
So your theory is that opposite to the Cuties movie is Qanon lead/motivated? Or what is your point exactly.
*opposition
Pretty much, yes. Republicans and QAnon are becoming less and less distinguishable. This seems to be an exhaustive list of all the Republican leaders who have spoken out against their lies, one of which you uncritically repeated in your opinion:
"Rep. Liz Cheney, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, has denounced QAnon as “dangerous lunacy that should have no place in American politics.” Republican leaders such as Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Sen. Ben Sasse have also denounced QAnon. Former Gov. Jeb Bush has said of QAnon, “Nut jobs, racists, haters have no place in either Party.”"
If you can find me an instance of Trump ("I hear they like me") or McConnell denouncing them, I'll be very surprised.
I’m not Republican and I have a big problem with Cuties. You’re just going to make yourself look like a pedo supporter. By the way, I have pointed out instances where Republican politicians were pedo in the past & I would do the same to a Democrat. It’s not a political issue for me or most normal people
Did you, or did you not uncritically repeat the lie that "One of the producers is a convicted child molestor. "? Don't you think you should be apologising for that?
What is your, non-Republican, personal, problem with the French film Cuties? Whatever it is, could it not be equally applied to the US exports "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Dance Moms"? If not, why not?
I am not "supporting" paedophilia*, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy in saying this film, this year, is uniquely terrible, especially considering it was made by a woman to try to open people's eyes to what happens to young girls when they try to mimic grown up women's dance moves. There were reasons why certain things didn't make it onto TV 30, 40 years ago. (Although you were much more likely to see a depiction of a woman "enjoying" being raped in films, back then. Things are never perfect.)
* That is the nastiest part of these accusations, anyone pointing out that there isn't any pornography in a film is accused of supporting paedophilia; should we ban playgrounds, too?
1. There’s nobody here for me to apologize to. You? You’re not a producer on cuties so I won’t apologize to you.
2. Nobody is saying the reason to block Cuties is because of who that alleged producer was. It was just a tangent.
3. I showed you EXACTLY where I got the info from which is a nonpartisan youtube channel about comics & media. Maybe you should apologize to me for accusing me of being Qanon... but I won’t hold my breath for that.
4. My problem with Cuties is that it’s soft porn for pedos & something to brainwash young girls into being pedo victims. The fact you even ask says a lot.
1. Why not? You lied to everybody here.
2. A tangent that was completely untrue, and which exceeded the lie you were told.
3. Do you believe every comment on every social media platform uncritically, or just the ones you thing should be true?
4. On your track record (and the reviews), I doubt very much that it is what you say it is, and you didn't answer my question about why you (and everyone else) aren't equally up in arms against Dance Moms and Little Miss Sunshine. The most likely explanation is that there's a culture war election going on, this year.
Its soo dumb, the ones against it do not know French culture nor do they know anything about dance and depending on your system of belief It may be against some peoples core beliefs when it comes to religion and political correctness, maybe they should have kept it in France and not made it available to the rest of the world.
Either way I see nothing wrong with a movie about dance.
Wtf are you talking about you are basically supporting a movie that is pro pedophilia and on top of that Netflix specifically decided to portray that making it so the girl is an 11 year old Muslim kid you damn pedophile
It goes against our core beliefs that sexualizing children is harmful. If that is french culture i'm glad i'm not french but given i have french friends ill just say f-you on their behalf given they and their culture aren't pedophilic. At least not as far as i know.
It is sexualising children (the actors there who dance sexually are 11-12) under the disguise of being some sort of coming-of-age drama movie.
Here's a ten minute video that I watched about it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lGITudIVBE8The controversy is that they are funding something that is literally 13 year olds twerking. The irony is that apparently the show is supposed to show how messed up that is, but meanwhile they do get 13 year olds to do so.
Here in the UK girls used to be allowed to appear topless aged 16 in magazines and newspapers. I remember the Sunday sport had one very pretty teenager who was very voluptuous but not fat and had very very large overdeveloped breasts for her tiny frame, they spent 3 months building up the story everyday in the daily sport with interviews and pictures to when she would eventually turn 16 and thus finally be legal age to appear topless in their paper on Sunday.
That’s honestly vile, when did that happen? I don’t remember
@AmourHoney used to be a thing years ago, it was made illegal in the mid 2000s the age limit being pushed to 18. Famous page 3 girl Samantha fox started age 16. Naturally back then being a teen I was quite delighted at this newspaper
I'd follow the link that @COMMODOREII posted other than that... You might have to watch it and maybe do your own take on it 🤔
A lot of it is the terrible advertising choices made for the US ad campaign. Cuties is the story of a girl who struggles with coming from a conservative background, but making the choice to experiment with conforming to western sexualization.
Almost got it. She was in a strict family where their culture favored child marriages and went to sexualization freedom but chose her own path in the end.
@COMMODOREII Oh okay, thank you! I'm not sure if I want to give it a watch or not, but I watched the review done by Aba and Preach.
Generally i liked the fact that here is this girl trying to figure out how to act and how to grow up and she had elements pulling her in directions she didn't want. Her culture and the social media side. In the end she chose her own path and dropped both of those other paths. Yes many of the scenes were shocking and offensive. But you need to imagine how real girls in real life have to deal with everyday which is far worse. Hiding the truth is not the best thing to deal with society's problems but education and real change to make everyone better off. Calling this movie pedophilia or child porn when they are trying to make a point only strengthens the problems in our society instead of learning from it and striving for real change. And to hear people make judgements without actually seeing it is like those who won't learn from their mistakes.
@COMMODOREII An adult standing behind a camera telling children to engage in sexual activities is never justified.
Child nudity, child sexualization, a push to normalize pedophilia. Technically it qualifies for child porn in the us
I like Netflixs, but they really screwed up big time with this crap. I certainly won't be watching It.
I wouldn't give Netflix more views on this one. Bad fame is still fame in their eyes. And fame equals money.