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...
This has pissed me off so much since I posted my last comment that it's actually caused me to harden my stance on it.
Fuck anyone who wants to use this issue as an opportunity to write a self-gratifying thesaurus-bashing pseudo-intellectual essay about the 'finer' points of why 'a movie that shows children twerking is okay actually'. The filmmaker and Netflix knew exactly what they were doing by commodifying child sexualization. The dance numbers were choreographed and the camera angles closing in on little girls' posteriors were painstakingly intentionally planned, none of which are fucking necessary to make the supposed 'point' of the movie.
Fuck anyone who claims that 'this is a right wing talking point'. Some things do not deserve nuanced acceptance, and child sexualization and fascism are two of them. It's incredibly fucking dangerous to write off any criticism of pedophile-enabling content like this as 'conspiracy/right wing' views. By allowing the right wing to own and direct the narrative of child sexualization, we become the 'side' which allows this to happen by default.
Also fuck anyone who thinks you have to watch the movie in its entirety to make a judgement on it. Even if the movie was literally just the trailer, there exists zero possible context or combination of additional pixels they could show which would vindicate the fact that they intentionally put children in sexually compromising positions for money, and anyone who makes this argument can fuck right off.
It doesn't matter what the fucking intention of the movie was. If anyone chooses to pick this hill to die on defending this piece of shit movie, then as far as I'm concerned, there should be serious suspicions raised about them.
Hey, if you want to glom on to the fascist censorship agenda because you can't watch clothed teens dance without thinking about sex, that's your bidding. I guess me and the people I know who've watched it and didn't think it was that big a deal are all pedos. The Handmaid's Tale awaits.
Imagine being so devoid of material analysis that you think that any censorship is fascism. You have zero right to call yourself a Marxist. Shame on you.
I think the inability to look at art in the abstract is perhaps a failure of being too married to material analysis.
We won't agree on this subject, but I wish you well nonetheless.
Hiding behind abstractionism to justify actual, real sexualization of children by intentionally putting them in inappropriate positions and filming them in suggestive camera angles is the height of liberal degeneracy. You should be ashamed of yourself. Fucking disgusting.
It's quite striking that I can watch those scenes and see nothing but the awkwardness, pity, and anxiety that comes with coming of age, and all you can take away is some righteous crusade to compensate for the funny feeling you probably had in your loins.
'It's quite striking how I'm completely oblivious to the intentional choreography of the movie, the morality of putting children in that position, and the very real underground sex trade that's going on. I'm completely unable to connect various elephants in the room, so I just consume vapid liberal propaganda normalizing sexualization of children uncritically - so therefore you're the pedophile'
That's how you sound.
Your... liberal use of the word "liberal" really exposes your chud tendencies, Chuck Tingle.
Do you even know what 'liberal' means, you circus clown? It doesn't mean that I'm by default a conservative.
What the fuck are you even doing on here? You're clearly not a socialist, let alone an ML.
Is there some gatekeeping questionnaire I wasn't aware of?
We all wear many hats. Just call me a lib and get on with your life.
Ok lib.
:)