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annabenedetti

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could it be the erotic dance scene on the stairs after they discover they're in the contest?

could it have something to do with four little 11 year old girls in short shorts twerking and spreadeagling from a low camera angle that focuses on their butts and crotches, including closeups?


heavens no - it must be the bad language - nothing wrong with four little 11 year old girls in short shorts twerking and spreadeagling from a low camera angle that focuses on their butts and crotches, including closeups, eh?

No. There is no glorification of sexualization, as I said. Nothing in the film gives approval to it.

It's about a young girl struggling with the allure of wanting to fit in with the cool kids as she processes her own adolescence in a world that is too quick to make girls grow up (equally aware that traditional societies can be just as quick to make girls grow up). The audience in the movie doesn't approve, her family doesn't approve, her cool friends think she goes too far, she has her epiphany and leaves the dance performance, runs back to her mother and goes out to skip rope. The movie shows the way girls often behave today, and yes we should be concerned about what pressures girls (kids) face today particularly from social media which has made everything more difficult and amplifies the ramifications. But this movie is not pornography and saying so does a disservice to actual child pornography.
 

ok doser

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No. There is no glorification of sexualization, as I said. Nothing in the film gives approval to it.


the director's choice of camera angle and closeup, of focusing on spreadeagled 11 year old crotches and twerking 11 year old butts glorifies it and gives approval to it

they could have just as easily presented that scene from the perspective of the girl's camera



and the very fact that I'm even having this discussion with you disgusts me, proves that you're some very few, very small steps away from full acceptance
 

annabenedetti

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the director's choice of camera angle and closeup, of focusing on spreadeagled 11 year old crotches and twerking 11 year old butts glorifies it and gives approval to it

they could have just as easily presented that scene from the perspective of the girl's camera

No it doesn't. But then maybe you're looking at it differently than I am.
 

Arthur Brain

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No. There is no glorification of sexualization, as I said. Nothing in the film gives approval to it.

It's about a young girl struggling with the allure of wanting to fit in with the cool kids as she processes her own adolescence in a world that is too quick to make girls grow up (equally aware that traditional societies can be just as quick to make girls grow up). The audience in the movie doesn't approve, her family doesn't approve, her cool friends think she goes too far, she has her epiphany and leaves the dance performance, runs back to her mother and goes out to skip rope. The movie shows the way girls often behave today, and yes we should be concerned about what pressures girls (kids) face today particularly from social media which has made everything more difficult and amplifies the ramifications. But this movie is not pornography and saying so does a disservice to actual child pornography.

You're wasting your time but well said anyway.

:cheers:
 

ok doser

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'Cuties' controversy entangles Obamas as pressure grows to pull 'child porn' Netflix film










By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Monday, September 14, 2020

The growing uproar over “Cuties” threatens to engulf the Obamas as they come under pressure to use their influence at Netflix to pull the provocative French film accused of glorifying the sexualization of girls.

Critics on the right have called on Netflix producers Barack and Michelle Obama to condemn “Cuties,” a French film released on the streaming service Sept. 9 that already has prompted calls by Republicans for a Justice Department investigation into possible child-pornography violations.

The Federalist didn’t mince words in a Monday article by Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy headlined, “Michelle Obama is Complicit in Netflix Child Porn Film ‘Cuties.’”
“At a time the left has declared that ‘silence is violence,’ Michelle Obama’s silence on Netflix’s controversial movie ‘Cuties’ has not gone unnoticed,” read the op-ed, co-written with Evita Duffy. “It is also undermining her brand as ‘America’s mom’ and chief defender of female empowerment across the globe.”

The Obamas certainly have the connections: Last year they signed a reported $50 million production deal with Netflix. What’s more, the streaming media company’s board includes former Obama National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, a 2012 Obama campaign bundler whose wife, Nicole Avant, served in the Obama administration as ambassador to the Bahamas.


The Washington Times reached out to the Obamas for comment but did not receive a reply.

Radio talk-show host Larry O’Connor said the Obamas “are enriched by the company that has presented this trash to the world,” but they “refuse to say anything … anything at all about this horrible issue.”

“They are the tip of the spear in demanding that every day Americans disrupt their own lives and their family harmony on the most divisive and controversial political topics,” Mr. O’Connor said Friday in an op-ed on Townhall.com. “Yet, on this fundamental, non-controversial and unifying idea that children should be protected and sexual exploitation of minors should be universally condemned, they can’t say a word.”

Netflix saw its stock price drop for the fifth day Monday as #CancelNetflix continued to roar on social media, spurred by former subscribers posting their cancellation receipts in a campaign to compel the service to remove the film.


“Cuties” also faces opposition in Congress. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, asked Attorney General William Barr to investigate whether Netflix has “violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography.”


Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, and Rep. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, on Friday called on the Justice Department to prosecute Netflix for trafficking in child pornography, while Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, sent a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings asking him about the “exploitation of child actors.”

A few Democrats have joined the outcry, notably Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who tweeted Friday that she had canceled her Netflix subscription over “Cuties,” which she described as “child porn.”

Christine Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a former San Francisco assistant district attorney, tweeted that the film “hypersexualizes girls my daughter’s age no doubt to the delight of pedophiles like the ones I prosecuted. Cancel this, apologize, work with experts to heal your harm.”

Obamas could ‘stop this in its tracks’

Netflix has defended the coming-of-age film, which centers on a French-Sengalese girl named Amy who “starts to rebel against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.”

“‘Cuties’ is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children,” a Netflix spokesperson said in an email. “It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up — and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”

Filmmaker Maimouna Doucoure won the directing award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and the critical reviews have been mostly positive. In what may be one of the most skewed Rotten Tomatoes ratings ever, the film received a glowing 88% score from critics and a desultory 3% score from audiences.

In a Monday interview on Medium, Ms. Dourcoure urged those offended by the movie poster released last month to watch the film, predicting they would be surprised.

“I’m hoping that these people will watch the movie now that it’s out,” she said. “I’m eager to see their reaction when they realize that we’re both on the same side of this fight against young children’s hypersexualization.”

The New Yorker’s Richard Brody said “Cuties” had become “the target of a right-wing campaign,” while the Verge’s Julia Alexander blamed a “QAnon conspiracy theory” in an article retweeted by Mr. Hastings.

Tufts University professor Daniel W. Drezner on Monday accused Mr. Cruz of stoking the “hysteria” by railing against the movie without having seen it.

“The film is mostly a cautionary tale about what happens when preteen girls lack parental authority figures and instead seek approval from social media likes,” Mr. Drezner said in the Washington Post op-ed. “In other words, ‘Cuties’ is a film with a rather conservative message. By my plain-language reading of U.S. law, it does not come remotely close to the ‘child pornography’ label.”

Not buying the “cautionary tale” explanation was Live Action’s Lila Rose, who tweeted, “You don’t fight child exploitation by exploiting children. You don’t stop child pornography by creating, selling and distributing child pornography.”

On the IMDb “Parents Guide,” the movie received a “severe” rating for “sex & nudity,” citing “Frequent scenes of 11 yr old girls dancing lewdly where the camera pans in and zooms in on the children’s buttocks and midsections.”

The original IMDb description, however, said that “one of the female child dancers lifts up her top to fully display her bare breast,” in a screenshot captured by the Blaze.

Mr. Drezner downplayed the shot, calling it “a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene in which the film’s protagonists are watching video of a rival, older dance troupe in which one of the dancers exposes one breast. It happens too fast for anything to be sexualized.”

Before the film’s release, there was a dust-up its poster, which Netflix removed, but the movie featuring close-ups of scantily clad girls twerking and writhing makes the poster look tame, according to conservative pundit Tammy Bruce.

“They said that the poster that caused outrage didn’t reflect the film. They were right. The film is worse. It is beyond what we would have imagined,” said Ms. Bruce on Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “The fact is, it is awful. It is the exploitation of children. This is not an indictment; it’s a celebration.”

She added that “curiously silent are the Obamas” as well as Ms. Rice.

“A word from any of these people could stop this in its tracks,” said Ms. Bruce, “and they should say something.”



https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/14/netflix-cuties-film-child-porn-uproar-ensnares-oba/
 

annabenedetti

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So the Obamas are complicit in 'child porn' because they have a show on Netflix?

You're insane. The everlasting hatred of the Obamas is insane.

Maybe if this is camping on your mind that much you could go watch some junior cheer, dance and gymnastics teams on youtube.
 

ok doser

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So the Obamas are complicit in 'child porn' because ....

....The Obamas certainly have the connections: Last year they signed a reported $50 million production deal with Netflix. What’s more, the streaming media company’s board includes former Obama National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, a 2012 Obama campaign bundler whose wife, Nicole Avant, served in the Obama administration as ambassador to the Bahamas.
 

ok doser

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... you could go watch some junior cheer, dance and gymnastics teams on youtube.

wasn't there some sort of controversy a few years ago about pedophiles tagging particular videos on Youtube and sharing them? Embedded links in bogus image files?
 

ok doser

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You're insane. The everlasting hatred of the Obamas is insane.


It's a story in the Washington Times :idunno:

others who are "insane":


A few Democrats have joined the outcry, notably Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who tweeted Friday that she had canceled her Netflix subscription over “Cuties,” which she described as “child porn.”

Christine Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a former San Francisco assistant district attorney, tweeted that the film “hypersexualizes girls my daughter’s age no doubt to the delight of pedophiles like the ones I prosecuted. Cancel this, apologize, work with experts to heal your harm.”

 

ok doser

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On the IMDb “Parents Guide,” the movie received a “severe” rating for “sex & nudity,” citing “Frequent scenes of 11 yr old girls dancing lewdly where the camera pans in and zooms in on the children’s buttocks and midsections.”
 

annabenedetti

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On the IMDb “Parents Guide,” the movie received a “severe” rating for “sex & nudity,” citing “Frequent scenes of 11 yr old girls dancing lewdly where the camera pans in and zooms in on the children’s buttocks and midsections.”

You know the ratings are user-driven, I'm sure the right-wing outrage machine was very busy.
 

annabenedetti

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ok doser

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Here's a calm, rational, non-hysteria-driven conversation about the movie


Here's a calm, rational, non-hysteria-driven comment about the movie - there is a scene in the middle in which the girls discover that they've been accepted into the dance contest finals and exuberantly express themselves by dancing on an outdoor staircase. The scene starts with one girl setting up the cellphone on a lower stair to record it. The camera angle at this point is slightly higher than that of the cellphone. As they dance, the camera pans in and focuses first on one girl, then another, often closeups of bare midriff and short shorts. The camera focuses on closeups of twerking butts and spreadeagled crotches.

Of 11 year old girls.
 

ok doser

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The camera focuses on closeups of twerking butts and spreadeagled crotches, of 11 year old girls wearing short shorts and tank tops


according to the bananahead, this is not hypersexuallizing children :dizzy:
 

annabenedetti

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I said it wasn't "glorifying" hypersexualism. The film is a cautionary tale against hypersexualism. Get your facts straight.

twerking butts and spreadeagled crotches

twerking and spreadeagling.. butts and crotches

spreadeagled 11 year old crotches and twerking 11 year old butts

closeups of twerking butts and spreadeagled crotches


Are you finished with your faux hyper-outrage? I'm finished with this conversation which has you so tied up in disturbing and repetitive knots.

Ending with the Vox link, which does a good job of outlining my thoughts on the movie, which doesn't glorify hypersexualization and is not porn.

And next time you want to talk about having sex with your sister or how Mary was a 13-year-old bride so what's wrong with Phil Robertson... don't @ me.
 
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