Confession after Cuties

[OraLabora]

I do not watch touchy-feely chick flicks.

I haven’t seen the film but I don’t think it’s a “chick flick”. I read a review on it today on our main Francophone news media. The producer is a French woman of Senegalese origin. The film is meant as a social commentary on the clash of cultures between conservative, paternalistic, polygamist Islamic Senegalese culture and French Western and hyper sexualized liberal culture. The protagonist tries to escape the constraints of her Islamic culture and her unhappy home situation.

The film is deliberately provocative. The producer herself was from a polygamist family. It purports to show what is actually happening in France. It is also an award-winning film at the recent Sundance festival. It is also semi-autobiographical.

So not a chick-flick in the classic sense, but rather a feminist commentary on objectification of women, according to the review.

I haven’t seen the “offending” scene. It might be a case of pornography being in the eye of the beholder. In other words, if one is turned on by it, one has bigger issues than can be fixed on a CAF thread, or even in the confessional alone.

 

[pnewton]

I haven’t seen the film but I don’t think it’s a “chick flick”… The film is meant as a social commentary

Please excuse my flippancy. I meant to say there were no car chases, fights, sci-fi effects, explosives, etc. It might well be a worthy movie. I am too shallow to appreciate it, if so.

 

[OraLabora]

I get it! As someone who lost more than one Saturday night film pick ( “what are we watching tonight dear?”), i really do!

 

[felsguy]

As to your question, if you found yourself tempted by the movie then you would confess to lust. To be safe, I would confess it as pornography (hard to say and it’s better to be safe than sorry). That’s just my opinion though.

Just to clarify though. experiencing temptation is not the same as committing sin.

A person who is tempted to do something must be aware at the time that it would be wrong and give at least some consent to doing or continuing to do it for it to be sinful. Whether or not the person has full knowledge and/or gives complete consent, as well as of course whether or not the action (or inaction) is seriously wrong, determines whether or not it is a serious sin. Just as Jesus experienced temptation, and serious at that, encouraged by His example and strengthened by His grace we avoid sin by refusing to give in when tempted.

And after 44 posts there is certainly no consensus here as to the objective sinfulness of watching all or a portion of the movie Cuties so my adding a 45th would do nothing.

Also, I know I saw the “safe than sorry” issue addressed either in the discussion above or in the related thread about the movie so I’m won’t go there either.