Republicans call on DOJ to investigate Netflix over 'Cuties' film

[Rockoh22]

Lets see if this was far enough. I have seen people from all political spectrums condemn this.

Republicans call on DOJ to investigate Netflix over ‘Cuties’ film | The Hill

 

[Victoria33]

It seems like 2 months ago, that singer Duffy took issue with the Polish-made movie, “365 days” which is about a kidnapping and she says she went through something like this. All of this is serious.

Duffy writes letter to Netflix to remove ‘365 Days’ | Fox News

I am under the impression this movie was removed. Netflix needs to shape up.

Netflix say they are exposing “sexualization of children”, no way am I even going to watch this thing.

Netflix defends ‘Cuties’ as ‘social commentary’ against sexualization of children

 

[Balto1]

Are you advertising this movie?

I assume the legislators in the article all own Netflix stock, there’s no way they’re stupid enough to think this movie warrants any sort of investigation.

If they’re serious, well, congratulations to Netflix on all the free marketing. Good excuse to fire up the “Paedogeddon” episode of Brass Eye again.

 

[Rockoh22]

I assume the legislators in the article all own Netflix stock, there’s no way they’re stupid enough to think this movie warrants any sort of investigation.

That is a very shrewd statement.

Do you believe there is nothing wrong with such a film?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I am under the impression this movie was removed

365 Days wasn’t removed. It’s on Netflix streaming right now.

Not going to watch it because it’s sexually explicit and the theme is hackneyed/ old as the hills (it’s the umpteenth remake of Valentino’s old “Sheik” movie where some chieftain is so enamored of a woman he kidnaps her) but it’s on there.

 

[Balto1]

Do you believe there is nothing wrong with such a film?

I think it’s incredibly distasteful. That’s why I mostly ignored it after becoming aware of it, the Streisand Effect is a thing and making it the subject of national headlines does nothing but promote it.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

making it the subject of national headlines does nothing but promote it.

This is true. Last I looked it was in the Netflix Top 10.
Outrage sells.

 

[Rockoh22]

making it the subject of national headlines does nothing but promote it.

Lets just change the abuse a little.

The producer wants to make a film about children using drugs and getting high. Then she cast the children to make the movie, and thus proceed to make the film recording 11 year olds getting high on heroin, just to show us the atrocity of kids doing heroin.

The same principle in this one. If you have not seen it, but just heard of it. Then you should know that an

Spoiler

11 year old taking her pants down taking a picture of her privates and posting it on social media,

is in fact pedophilia.

It is disgusting, and the media have been slowly doing this. Either we do something about it, or let this abuses continue.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Is what you describe actually in the film? Because people are making all kinds of claims about what is allegedly in this film, and no one making the claims or repeating them seems to have seen the film.

 

[Rockoh22]

Is what you describe actually in the film?

I take it from trusted people. No I do not watch the film. Disgusting does not even describe it. What I describe was only one of the scenes, after that, I could not hear any more. So what else is in there? I do not know. But the line has been crossed a long time ago.

 

[F_Marturana]

There’s a parental warning on IMDB of any problematic scenes.

It doesn’t seem that the actresses are in any nude scenes.

I hope you don’t mind that I don’t post it. It’s On the page of the film under “parental warning”

 

[Regular_Atheist]

The scene described by that user is on the Wikipedia plot synopsis, so presumably it happens. The movie doesn’t seem to be necessarily promoting the sexualisation of children, though. It seems to be suggesting that it’s bad.

 

[Balto1]

The producer wants to make a film about children using drugs and getting high. Then she cast the children to make the movie, and thus proceed to make the film recording 11 year olds getting high on heroin, just to show us the atrocity of kids doing heroin.

The same principle in this one. If you have not seen it, but just heard of it. Then you should know that an

Spoiler

11 year old taking her pants down taking a picture of her privates and posting it on social media,

is in fact pedophilia.

It’s illegal to supply children with drugs, and it’s illegal to produce child pornography. It is not illegal to simulate children taking drugs or simulate children producing child pornography. The legislators in the posted article are aware of this.

 

[Rockoh22]

and it’s illegal to produce child pornography

And this is not? Having sexualized pictures of minors has landed people in jail.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The movie “Kids” that came out in 1995 was just as pornographic if not more, and no one was ever prosecuted in connection with it.

 

[Rockoh22]

The movie “Kids” that came out in 1995 was just as pornographic if not more, and no one was ever prosecuted in connection with it.

I never heard of that movie.

My question is then.

You support this film making?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I posted a factual statement about a film in a discussion of prosecution, and you take that as me supporting child exploitation?
That doesn’t even make sense. It’s impossible to have a discussion if you’re going to assume people support it if they suggest that the law might allow it.

I do law all day for a living. If I say that somebody can’t prosecute a suspect for murder, because he doesn’t meet the elements of the crime, people don’t come back at me with, “So, you support people being wantonly killed?”
Leaving this discussion now.

 

[Rockoh22]

No, that was not a “gotcha” question. I have no idea why you are defending this. So I asked, if you support this type of filmmaking.

 

[Balto1]

And this is not?

This film is not child pornography, no.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

I heard about this film on NPR the other day.

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The French film, Cuties , is being praised for its critique of the hyper sexualization of young girls - and the consequences of that - as they rush to become adults in the age of social media.

It began several years ago when filmmaker Maimouna Doucouré was at a neighborhood gathering and her jaw dropped. A group of young girls in revealing outfits came out on a stage and performed a choreographed routine.

Doucouré says they couldn’t have been more than 11 years old.

“And they were dancing very sensually, sexually and I was very disturbed about what I was seeing.”

But instead of passing judgment, the self-taught writer and filmmaker says she wanted to understand what she was seeing. She dove into research, interviewing more than one hundred adolescent girls over the course of a year and a half.

“It’s a period [that’s] very specific,” Doucouré says, “where you are not any more totally a child and you are not an adult. You are looking for yourself and everything is changing very fast.”

Doucouré combines her findings with elements of her own upbringing in her first feature length film, Cuties .
[…]

Doucouré was accused, on social media, of being a pedophile and even received death threats.

She says she hopes those who signed the petition will watch the film.

“And after that, they will see that we have the same fight and we are all together about that issue of hyper sexualization of our children and protect our children.”