Cuties (2020)
dissock 21 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Bluecannon - temporarily banned for calling someone an idiot. Can’t post for 24 hours. This is the workaround.

This is just going round and round. I called out hypocrisy. That doesn’t mean that I liked the film. I said that the film had a message that people aren’t getting. Again, doesn’t mean I like the film. People like YOU are taking it personal, jumping in, paraphrasing, and distorting. That’s a really interesting reaction to someone saying that a film has a message. Chill out.

Bluecannon : I DON’T care if you like the film or not. And I never said I liked it. What I said is that there’s a message in the film, and the faux uproar is overshadowing it. Why do I call it faux? You prove it when you said that an 11 year old exposes her breast. That’s not in the film. A US senator claimed it was, and you bought into it. And then, you’re spreading the misinformation along. It’s fake, because even those who obviously haven’t seen the film are getting all offended. It’s ridiculous.

Then on the other side of the spectrum, you’ve got ShiftyPickle paraphrasing.
I said preteens are discovering their bodies. He / she interprets that as meaning they’re exploring their sexuality. See what I mean? Distortion again.

The uproar about this film smacks of hypocrisy. No uproar when we see:

  • Toddlers in beauty pageants.
  • 7 year olds in child beauty pageants, wearing full makeup, hair and lashes and often hypersexualized.
  • Various dance competitions on tv where you see kids performing similar dance routines as that shown in the finale of Cuties.
  • The film Little Miss Sunshine with a 9-year old character doing a striptease to the music of Rick James Superfreak blaring in the background.

And NOW you want to show your outrage? Ummmm, okay. It seems people don’t complain seeing the end result of a dance routine featuring kids acting more adult than their ages (like I said, you see this stuff on television weekly in dance competition shows), but let’s bring out the pitchforks and clutch our pearls if a film shows the actual rehearsal process of the routine because…well…THAT just crosses the line (eye-roll).

Guess what? There’s an actual message in this film - maybe you’d pick up on that instead of focusing on the dance moves and its perceived titillation.

And FYI, in real life, 11 year old preteens are discovering their bodies. It’s called puberty. You can be shocked that a film DARE address the issue and dangers of preteens on social media - or you can accept the facts of life, that this IS the fact of life. But the faux puritanical outrage? Give me a break…

Ditzygypsy 6 points 3 years ago.

The fact that it is a semi-autobiographical take on the director’s life also makes it even more profound. This IS what is happening to little girls. Being a parent is terrifying, so most of the negative-content comments are coming from those without kids. It’s so much easier and requires so much less bravery just to look at the [Amerrican version] poster and jump on the naysayer, crazy-Q bandwagon than it is to actually watch it and understand how we need to know about the awful things so we can fight to change them and keep our children safe.