# "Cuties" on Netflix **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608 "2020-08-20T21:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/1 "2020-08-20T21:57:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/2 "2020-08-20T22:08:42Z")
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. > **[Netflix Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ ‘Cuties’ Poster Slammed for...](https://variety.com/2020/film/news/netflix-cuties-sexualizing-girls-1234741510/)** > > Netflix has apologized for and withdrawn a poster for its upcoming coming-of-age drama “Cuties.” The artwork for the French-language film depicted four adolescent girls wearing revealin… ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/3 "2020-08-20T22:12:36Z")
I can’t see how the movie gets better if its about girls twerking in public. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/4 "2020-08-20T22:20:08Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/5 "2020-08-20T22:26:04Z")
Apparently the movie is anti-sexualization of girls that age. Netflix’s marketing really really screwed this up. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/6 "2020-08-20T22:26:20Z")
A movie about 11-year-olds but the audience is 16+? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/7 "2020-08-20T22:27:28Z")
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. > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > At best, soft-pedophilia, at worst, child abuse It has an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe it’s not as bad as you imagine. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/8 "2020-08-20T22:29:55Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > A movie about 11-year-olds but the audience is 16+? Ratings boards are not arbiters of artistic value. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/9 "2020-08-20T23:04:32Z")
And I didn’t mention that. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/10 "2020-08-20T23:19:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/11 "2020-08-20T23:23:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/12 "2020-08-20T23:35:04Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > My point is that it is so sexualised that the kids in the movie could not watch it. Did it get the rating it got for sexualized images? > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > The trailer has constant ass-shots and there are too many disturbing 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”. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/13 "2020-08-21T00:11:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/14 "2020-08-21T02:12:48Z")
I wish _everyone_ would stop twerking. It’s about as sexy as watching doctors perform liposuction. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/15 "2020-08-21T02:31:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/16 "2020-08-25T00:01:29Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_YmDcCpD1gc/maxresdefault.jpg "Do Not Diddle Kids - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S7E3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmDcCpD1gc) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/17 "2020-08-25T03:32:01Z")
So…is anyone going to watch the movie everyone is already pissed off about? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/18 "2020-08-25T04:07:18Z")
So I guess we’re not talking about this. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWU3Mjk5NTgtNWFiNi00NzJmLWEyMWUtMjViYWUyZmY0MmVlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjgwMzg5MDQ@.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWU3Mjk5NTgtNWFiNi00NzJmLWEyMWUtMjViYWUyZmY0MmVlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjgwMzg5MDQ@.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/19 "2020-08-25T18:19:58Z")
Sadly, no. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608/20 "2020-08-25T21:52:45Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608.md?page=2)