re: What's the consensus on "Cuties"?

My take from reading a few articles and watching a couple of clips is that the movie tries to address the issue of hyper sexualization of young girls by hyper sexualizing young girls. The clip I saw was pretty gross and made me feel like I needed to wash my eyes out with bleach.

It’s like if I was against setting puppies on fire (I am) and made a movie where I set a puppy on fire to show you how bad it is. Horrible story telling if you can’t convey your message without showing it so explicitly.

Interesting that the same media that told us that Joker would cause mass shootings and no one should go see it are begging us to go see this movie because of the “nuance”. GTFO.

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My take from reading a few articles and watching a couple of clips is that the movie tries to address the issue of hyper sexualization of young girls by hyper sexualizing young girls. The clip I saw was pretty gross and made me feel like I needed to wash my eyes out with bleach.

It’s like if I was against setting puppies on fire (I am) and made a movie where I set a puppy on fire to show you how bad it is. Horrible story telling if you can’t convey your message without showing it so explicitly.

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basically what i was arguing on the previous page

it would be like if requiem for a dream skipped the 2nd half and just ran with the first part when herion made everything great and life was grand. then it ended. would that really be an indictment of using heroin?

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This movie sounds like it has ZERO karate

Will not watch

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MrFreakinMiyagi

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would be like if requiem for a dream skipped the 2nd half and just ran with the first part when herion made everything great and life was grand. then it ended. would that really be an indictment of using heroin?

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i don’t think that’s a fair comparison - caveat that i haven’t seen the film - BUT I believe that the dance routine circulating that I saw was cut short. Apparently as the dance went on (and got worse) the crowd started to react with more shock, the main girl stops the act and leaves the stage in tears. The film ends with her wearing a very modest outfit and jumping rope.

I think overall the film has a good message but at the same time the visuals they use to deliver the message end up stepping all over the message.

ETA: How would Cuties compare to a movie like Kids? 11 year olds over sexualized in society and on screen vs 15-16 year olds engaging in overt sexual acts and drug use? Both movies had actors that were actually the same age as the characters they were portraying. 16 is obviously way different than 11 but full on overt sexual activity is also way different than suggestive dancing. BIG uproar around Kids back in the day.

As a thought exercise are these movies comparable just in a different generation facing different issues (HIV vs social media and over sexualizing young girls)?

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Watch this scene and report back if you still don't get the pedo vibes.

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Yikes.

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Seriously, that's a twisted statement on our society if we feel that filming and watching 11 yr olds rubbing on their hoo-has is acceptable.

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Sadly, the over sexualization of younger girls has been a thing for awhile. Could I see a middle school dance team dancing like that to that extreme? Probably not. But I could see them doing it with something more toned down but still sexualized. And weirdly, people seem to be ok with that.

And don't even get me started on the incredibly weird pageant circuit for young girls. That shite is as uncomfortable as the clip you posted if we're being really honest about it.

The same people defending cuties will be the people complaining in three months about Baby It’s Cold outside.

If you wanna watch a non pedo version of this movie, made 40 years ago, staring a young Jodie Foster, rent FOXES.

It probably hasn't aged very well, but it does have young teenagers who dabble in drugs, sex and even older men. A beautiful 'coming of age ' movie.


Or you could try Little Darlings, with a young Tatum O'Neil, Kristy McNichol, in yes, another 'coming of age ' movie.


Cuties isn't anything new, save for they've dropped the ages of the stars a few years.

I saw Foxes as a kid on VHS - so maybe I was too unaware of exploitation but it seemed more tame which came later...the movie Kids.

Plus, those two movies you mentioned don't seem to be in the same boat - they were older actors playing rebellious teenagers...it's been done a million times. They weren't children twerking for creepos.

Jodie Foster was 18 years old in that movie. (Foxes)

Kristy McNichol was 18 years old. (Little Darlings)

Those movies were about portraying teenagers with adult actors.

This is about children. There's no comparison.

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This is about children. There's no comparison.

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Cuties is unquestionably about sexually exploiting children.

While other movies have dealt with young prostitutes ( Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby ) this movie clearly is driven to normalize 11 yr olds twerking and engaging in provocative dance moves, as a part of 'coming of age ' for young girls.

Bitch, please. No one is buyin' it, and it's clear by the reaction it's getting.

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Is Cuties a brain-child of Netflix's paid influencers the Obama's?

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No it's a year old French film they just picked up the rights to stream.

Doesn't make it any less disgusting