TRIGGER WARNING - TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL CONTENT WITH MINORS
I wanted to see if it was really as bad as the trailer and holy shit it's actually the worst thing on Netflix. Yes, even worse than that Space Force blatant propaganda. It's Islamophobic(I was pissed when I wrote this, Islamaphobic is a huge stretch and I can admit when I'm wrong) sexist, and the most disgusting piece of somehow legal pedo bait I've ever had the misfortune of watching. Before watching I thought that since it was French that it might just be an artistic movie that went too far, but no, the writing and editing are awful too. All of the characters besides the protagonist are mean spirited for no good reason. There's not a single likeable character in the movie. I think the movie tries to justify the sexualization as female empowerment (at least the trailer did), but the main character spends the entire movie being pushed around by other girls and women in a desperate attempt to be accepted by others. Only in the actual last two minutes of the movie does the protagonist seem happy to do her own thing.
The girls in the movie are all 11 years old and yet they're half naked for the majority of the movie. At three points in the movie the main protagonist's underwear is shown: once while other teenage girls strip her in a fight and take photos of her panties (the movie zooms in on her butt during this), once while she takes off her pants and panties to take a vag selfie and post it online (no private parts shown thankfully, but much of her bare thighs are), and lastly while her mom and grandma strip her down to a shirt and panties in what I think was supposed to be an exorcism... and they couldn't even do the last one without sexualizing AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL by having her twerk for two minutes in her panties while the grandma tosses water on her, essentially making it a wet t shirt twerk. I could go on about this but the more I write the angrier I get
I went on Youtube expecting to see a ton of leftists shitting on it, but all I found were right wing reactionaries. Am I missing something here? It's been out for weeks, why aren't they calling this movie out? EDIT: I was wrong about the release date. While the trailer came out weeks ago, the movie has only been out since Sept 9th. It's completely fine that some creators would need time to write a fleshed out script with in-depth criticism of the movie instead of just yelling into a mic for half an hour generating quick and easy content.
EDIT: According to this article the protagonist actress is 14, and last time I fucking checked that's still a literal child. Also one of the supporting actresses is 12 so.... what the actual fuck.
I'm very interested how this is Islamaphobic (I believe you, there's just no other mention in the body of the post). Since I won't watch this garbage shit, can you expand on this point?
In the beginning of the movie the girl goes to an all female prayer group with her family, and the speaker talks about how women specifically must be pious because there will be far more women in hell than men.
That evil shows itself in the eyes of scantily women, so they must remain modest and never put any sexual responsibility on men. That they must obey their husbands no matter what.
Later in the movie the daughter peeks in on her mother crying because her dad is marrying a second wife, and throughout the rest of movie the mom bottles up her feelings on the marriage and even has to help with the wedding. It's never explained why she closes herself off, so we're left to assume that she's doing it to obey her husband. Or at least I did, I dunno.
I'm not going to pretend to be Muslim here, but I was raised Christian (I'm not any longer) and lemme just say, sexism is not exclusive to a single religion.
The only thing that gives me pause is that the writer is Senegalese herself, and although the wiki doesn't mention it I've seen others say she is muslim, at least culturally
I went to sleep on it, calmed down, and yeah, I was really pushing it calling this movie Islamaphobic.
I will say that it's odd the director decided to only put in negatives about Islam. But the editing was incredibly rushed when there wasn't skin showing, so I might have missed it. The family characters don't get much screen time.
Okay so before this I had only seen a poster for the show, I just watched the trailer and learned that 1.) this is a scripted series and not some reality show about child pageants and 2.) it involves some islamic french people. So this whole thread makes waaaaay more sense.
But yeah like without the headscarf all of this what you said is true of a lot of christians. I was born catholic (now atheist) but there was a scandal in my family when my cousin remarried.