As a conspiratorial-minded chap, is this an opportunistic ploy, or was this movie specifically designed to function as a Trojan Horse to accelerate a fascist agenda of mass censorship?

Or just empty politics as usual? Something about this feels... different...

  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
    1·
    4 years ago

    The problem with Cuties isn't that the movie thinks children should be sexualized, or that people would watch it and come away with the idea that sexualizing children is desirable or ok. The movie is saying the sexualization of children is bad.

    The problem with Cuties is that it sexualizes children to make that point, which isn't something that can be justified by placing it into context. Especially considering that the point could have been made without doing so.

    And yes, of course, child beauty pageants are also disgusting. Lots of things sexualize children and all of them are bad.

      • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Well, I haven't personally seen the movie, so I decided not to comment on the Islam stuff because that's at least a little bit more complex. My point is that even the best possible movie would be wrong if it had the kind of imagery we're talking about.

      • Perplexiglass [they/them]
        8·
        4 years ago

        It’s pure Michel Houellebecq shit and I’m surprised that breadtubers are just getting hung up on the “it’s actually about sexualizing children so it can’t be wrong.”

        This feels like a strawman. I challenge you to source the "breadtubers" saying that.

        this movie is as reactionary as Republicans and American Conservatives but because the director was dumb and went too far on sexualizing children that much by stuffing the camera straight into butts she lost everybody.

        This is beginning to send off chud vibes...

          • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
            2·
            4 years ago

            People who are gonna watch this French movie anyway are already predisposed to think sexualizing children is already bad

            France has the highest concentration of pedos this side of Luxembourg

          • Perplexiglass [they/them]
            8·
            4 years ago

            Michel Houellebecq

            It's just weird that you would use the brush of a polarizing white Westerner's writings on Islamic culture to paint a native Muslim Senegalese woman's interpretation of her own native culture. And I didn't see his name mentioned in the twitter thread.

            The rest, I don't know what to tell you. The movie debuted internationally and in film festivals with narry a peep. But the distinguished honor of ribald fire and brimstone always seems to go to an accelerating puritanical playground in the ol' USA. I see it as a harbinger of more to come.