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

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Machiavellian said:
Is someone in this forum french. The reason I ask this question because the naked body and being naked seems to have a different meaning for the french at least from my experience. I knew a french family that when they got home, everyone stripped naked like it was nothing. Walking around naked was no big deal and they did not seem to get sexualize by. It seemed to me at the time like a cultural thing. Anyway, its interesting how showing a nipple gets Americans in an uproar but shooting, killing, murder and other such things barely register any complaints.

From Luxembourg, but close enough I guess.

From what I saw (checked out the movie when I saw this thread to see firsthand what all the fuss was about), it's not nearly as sexualized as the moral guardians claim to be - if at all. At no point are the girls naked, for instance. Sure, they are wearing revealing costumes during the dance competition - but all you see is some leg and a midriff, which means those are not that much different to cheerleader outfits in the US. The whole thing is mostly just a cultural problem in (compared to Europe still very) puritan US:

Guns and excessive violence: Hell yeah!

Girls of different backgrounds trying to discover themselves during early puberty and by doing so going against their elders, who behave like they are still in their mother country (Mauritania or Senegal, going by the language): Hell no, apparently!

Seriously, after reading through the comments here, I felt like most here seem to be exactly like the Auntie of the main character, as she was very negative towards the openness of french culture in general and the dancing they did on stage in particular. The whole movie is just a coming-of-age story peppered with a cultural transition from the main character from the North African Islamic origins of her family to person who accepted the french culture as her own and how those two cultures clash and mesh together in modern France.