The girl watches videos of borderline porn of girls twerking and is impressed. The girls lie about their age to impress some older boys, Its bad. Young girls think this stuff is "cool" , that's very bad for them.
The thing is, the topic of the movie is actually fucking real. Because in reality, little girls are watching ultra-whores like Cardi B. and are trying to imitate her. Which is what this movie actively portrays: the main character rebels against her very conservative family and falls in with the pop-culture whore crowd.
But from what I saw the movie was very tastelessly shot (like you said, the constant "glamor" shots of the girls). They didn't handle the subject matter in any way that could be portrayed except its own glorification of the subject, even as it ironically makes an indictment of it.
And the way Netflix marketed it was inexcusable. Even the fucking name 'Cuties', christ dude, really? The movie could've handled the issue if it actively portrayed it as a dark, unpleasant thing, but I saw shots of them all laughing and cheering and dancing constantly with bright happy colors everywhere.
That kind of cinematography is used to portray positive things. Not bad things.
This movie is actually kind of a paradox. The sexualization of children in our culture is fucking disgusting and deplorable. The movie's actual story really is ABOUT A GIRL WHO FALLS INTO THAT TRAP, BUT REJECTS IT.
But how do you make a movie about this without everyone calling it pedobait? Because at some point you will have to show the viewer - who may actually be out of touch with what girls are exposed to on the internet - what girls are exposed to on the internet.
So ultimately I have mixed feelings on this. I didn't actually watch it, only skimmed, but I saw both sides of this. I definitely think the movie was excessive in 'show not tell', but people saying that the movie is anti-sexualization of children are not wrong.
The thing is, the topic of the movie is actually fucking real. Because in reality, little girls are watching ultra-whores like Cardi B. and are trying to imitate her. Which is what this movie actively portrays: the main character rebels against her very conservative family and falls in with the pop-culture whore crowd.
But from what I saw the movie was very tastelessly shot (like you said, the constant "glamor" shots of the girls). They didn't handle the subject matter in any way that could be portrayed except its own glorification of the subject, even as it ironically makes an indictment of it.
And the way Netflix marketed it was inexcusable. Even the fucking name 'Cuties', christ dude, really? The movie could've handled the issue if it actively portrayed it as a dark, unpleasant thing, but I saw shots of them all laughing and cheering and dancing constantly with bright happy colors everywhere.
That kind of cinematography is used to portray positive things. Not bad things.
This movie is actually kind of a paradox. The sexualization of children in our culture is fucking disgusting and deplorable. The movie's actual story really is ABOUT A GIRL WHO FALLS INTO THAT TRAP, BUT REJECTS IT.
But how do you make a movie about this without everyone calling it pedobait? Because at some point you will have to show the viewer - who may actually be out of touch with what girls are exposed to on the internet - what girls are exposed to on the internet.
So ultimately I have mixed feelings on this. I didn't actually watch it, only skimmed, but I saw both sides of this. I definitely think the movie was excessive in 'show not tell', but people saying that the movie is anti-sexualization of children are not wrong.