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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…

shiftypickle 0 points 3 years ago.

Who in the fuck are you addressing with this comment? It’s worded like its addressed to everyone on earth and yet a very specific subset of people simultaneously. Are you really retarded enough to think that people who glorify sexualizing young girls in real life are the ones complaining about this film? And are you seriously making excuses for, and endorsing it? How mentally handicapped are you? Your entire comment reads like the ramblings of a mental patient that spends too much time in conspiracy forums and decided to take a 5 minute break to pen an impassioned explanation of why a film about 10 years olds twerking is a quality production. i like the part where you try and make the point that there is a message contained in this film about young women discovering their bodies and their sexuality. That part is hilarious, it’s almost like you want to just come right out and say that age is just a number and that 10 year olds are capable of making decisions about their own bodies. But that would be insane wouldn’t it? Because most of the ten year olds i have ever seen want to spend most of their time watching barney re-runs and finger painting or sucking on their thumb. The simple idea that there are adults who think that 10, 11, even 12 year olds possess any level of sexuality that they’re interested in exploring or developing, absent the influence of adults is laughably false and downright delusional.

stay in your moms basement and PLEASE stop masturbating to child porn

Hungry Ghosts (2020)
shiftypickle 1 points 3 years ago.

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Southern Survival (2020)
Betamax78 2 points 3 years ago*.

its not fair to the rest of the planet that because a bunch of morbidly obese bible thumping gun-nut willfully ignorant WHITE TRASH bigots wanted a despicable illiterate racist CONMAN carnival barker sex offender they could relate to in the White House ,all the environmental policy rollbacks and appointing of big oil/chemical lobbyists to agencies like the EPA are going to affect the rest of us on the civilized world for generations to come (if we make it that far ?) sorry if that hurt your feelings and ruined your next cross burning but the world is offended

shiftypickle 1 points 3 years ago.

i hate trump, but man are you unintelligent

Dark Waters (2019)
shiftypickle -1 points 4 years ago*.

The summary description makes this sound like an exact carbon copy of “Michael Clayton” with George Clooney.

That doesn’t mean i’m not gonna watch it tho…

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
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shiftypickle -1 points 4 years ago.

geoff???!!