Netflix Loses Millions of Subscriptions Over Controversial Film, "Cuties" For Sexploiting Children

[DonFerrari]

Barozi said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

I'm not saying this kind of movie shouldn't be made.

I'm saying they could've done it in a different way. 

• When caught with her cousin's phone, an 11-year-old girl locks herself in the bathroom, pulls down her pants and snaps a picture of her private area before publishing it online. No nudity is actually shown.
• Children are watching pornography on a cell phone. Nothing is shown, little girls are huddled around a phone and talking about what is going on. Another scene shows two young girls watching the routine of a rival, older dance team on a cell phone. One of the girls dancing exposes her bare breast. Nipple is briefly visible.
• Frequent scenes of 11-year-old girls dancing lewdly where the camera pans in and zooms in on the children's buttocks and midsections (both still in skin-tight clothes but still suggestive).
• A scene where an 11 yr old girl dressed in a tank and panties is splashed with water and begins twerking in a frenzied kind of way. On her feet bent over, on her knees, and on her hands and knees. Camera zooms in on her buttocks as she positions on all fours and twerks.
• The little 11-year-old girls are slapping each other's buttocks in the film and making seductive faces while sticking their fingers in their mouth seducing the camera as well as people watching them.
• Four 11-year-old girls use one's laptop to access a cam site. The male on the other side is unaware but is disgusted as soon as he realizes it.
• 11 year old girl is made fun of by other 11 year olds that she has no butt. Later, shows 11 year old girl looking at a video on her phone of adult women in thongs twerking.
• The exposed breast of a minor is briefly seen on an internet video.

This isn't necessary

Again I haven't seen the movie but since someone here claimed that there isn't even any nudity in the movie, I did some research and according to Forbes, the breast in that internet video does not belong to a minor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/09/12/ted-cruz-falsely-claims-netflixs-cuties-shows-child-nudity-in-call-for-doj-probe/#5de3c744c162

The rest seems to be exactly what the director was aiming for.

Here's an interview with the producer:

What was the inspiration for this project?
It came from Maïmouna’s personal experience. She grew up in a large family living in one room in the 19th district of Paris, in a social housing project. She regularly goes back to the neighborhood to see her family and in one of the local festivities she saw a group of young 11-year-old girls dancing very provocatively to an audience with many mothers wearing traditional head scarves. She found it fascinating and disturbing and it raised the question of what role models young women can follow. It’s a very visceral movie. It really got under her skin and we feel it.

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/zangro-sundance-cuties-1203467120/

So basically she wanted to film what she has seen in real life. Wouldn't work nearly as well if she casted 16-year-olds and pretended they were 14 in the movie.

Also seriously? 11-year-olds watching porn on smartphones? You have to be pretty naive to assume that this is uncommon.

Well from her interview she is acknowleding that she was doing very provocative poses and taping. So yes it was sexual exploitation.