Really Netflix? Movie about 11 year-olds twerking, hypersexualising them?
No, no, and no.
There’s no excuse for that. At best, soft-pedophilia, at worst, child abuse.
My understanding is Netflix fucked up the promotion. The movie itself is not that bad. At least, no worse than Girl’s gymnastics in the Olympics.
I can’t see how the movie gets better if its about girls twerking in public.
I don’t believe it has twerking in it.
I don’t know the difference between Twerking and Competitive dance. But if The Parent Television Counsel is upset about it, my bias tends to lean me towards “This is probably being blown out of proportion”.
Apparently the movie is anti-sexualization of girls that age. Netflix’s marketing really really screwed this up.
A movie about 11-year-olds but the audience is 16+?
The trailer makes it look like an interesting story of cultural conflict and how a young girl deals with it, and does not seem to sexualize the girls in it.
It’s certainly possible that the poster was in bad taste but also that this is not a bad movie.
It has an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe it’s not as bad as you imagine.
Ratings boards are not arbiters of artistic value.
And I didn’t mention that.
I mean, you called it “at best soft-pedophilia”, and mentioning the rating appears to be in support of that claim. Feel free to elaborate if I have misinterpreted.
I’ve seen good films that featured characters of ages younger than the appropriate audience for the film.
Sometimes kids do bad shit, and sometimes others do bad shit to kids, and kids shouldn’t watch those movies. But sometimes the story is worth telling, and does not glamorize or promote the bad things.
I don’t know why the appropriate audience for this film is 16+. The trailer features the main character stealing money from her parents to go on a shopping spree with her friends, and then in the next scene (of the trailer) getting slapped by her mother. So we’ve got criminal activity and (actual) child abuse featured. I can imagine not wanting my kid to watch a movie with that in it. But that doesn’t make the movie morally abhorrent. It just means that it has some mature themes in it.
My point is that it is so sexualised that the kids in the movie could not watch it. The trailer has constant ass-shots and there are too many disturbing images.
There are no redeming qualities in sexualising tweens, none.
Did it get the rating it got for sexualized images?
I wonder if we watched the same trailer. The one I saw shows the main character wearing a headscarf more than it shows asses.
I think it’s entirely possible that this is a movie that portrays the sexualization of children without endorsing it or appealing to prurience. Because it’s a real thing that happens and it’s a valid form of art to dramatize and comment on it.
I haven’t seen this movie, but I’ve seen Kids and Thirteen, both of which feature but do not promote sexual behavior and other bad behavior in kids and neither of which are appropriate for kids to watch. People can disagree about whether they’re good movies, but they’re not “pedophilia”.
I don’t understand why the powers that be are so obsessed with pushing twerking on underage women. PowerPuff Girls reboot legitimately had multiple scenes of these cartoon elementary school students twerking.
I wish everyone would stop twerking. It’s about as sexy as watching doctors perform liposuction.
This thread is the fist I’d heard of it. I just watched the trailer, and from that and nothing else, I’d say the movie is probably about exactly what this thread is discussing: what behaviour is okay for a young girl, and how young is too young to be sexy? Or to want to be sexy?
My guess is every parent of a tweenager wrestles with these same questions, and I don’t see anything wrong with portraying that.
As for the pedophilia accusation, it is patently ridiculous, and a misunderstanding of the law. While it is of course possible that a pedophile, or more properly an ephebophile, might be turned on by images in this film, that does not mean they are pornographic.
I for one won’t be watching it, because films about dance don’t interest me. But from the trailer, I wouldn’t feel at all weird or creepy about enjoying it if I did.
So…is anyone going to watch the movie everyone is already pissed off about?
So I guess we’re not talking about this.
Sadly, no.
I am not pissed or planning to watch. I bet a lot of people watch now, though. The movie just got a huge publicity boost. I could even see this thread resulting in a couple Dopers being added to the list of viewers.