100%.

sexualizing young girls with the message "you're a big girl whenever u want to be" = bad

sexualizing young girls with the message "this is bad, and dont do this to your kids" = good


its similar to rape, if u have a character that rapes with impunity, is the hero of the story, and people love him for it, thats bad. if rape is done by the bad guys and makes them irredeemable, thats good.

there are bad things and good things in the world, when shown in media its the message they send morally that is important, not their existence. i havent heard criticism that this will lead to more sexualized girls, only that its food for pedos, which is silly.



sounds like those shots made you uncomfortable just as the director wanted.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Sep 16 2020 06:20am

It doesn't matter if the film was amazing, thought-provoking, disturbing, poignant, or whatever. It's exploitative to film prepubescent children like that.

You shouldn't film an actual rape or murder or whatnot if you want to make a film that depicts some horrible act/behavior to criticize it. Some of the shots are so close up and from such explicit angles, and if that really is part of the point being made in the movie itself, and there was such a desperate need to show things so vividly, you could at least use animation, older actors, or even blur parts of certain shots. People should be free to depict anything, but this isn't a depiction of sexual exploitation of children, it's a recording of it.

this topic gonna get somebody the ban boot

This

That just sounds weird tbh.

Like Nathan said, there's other ways to say sexualizing kids is bad without showing 11 year olds in skimpy outfits.

I almost never agree with Thor, but yeah basically this.

Excellent post, my friend!

And yet most all people can agree sexualizing kids is bad and still it persists. if you dont make people feel uncomfortable the message doesnt do anything, its just moral filler.

in all my life i can say i learned more about how awful rape was in a few violent rape scenes in movies than every sunday of church stacked on top of each other.

Irréversible for example made me so sick i treated women better in dating, truly jarring stuff.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Sep 16 2020 07:21am

reported to njag

They were just acting it out.
They should have actually raped people to make you more uncomfortable and to make the message more powerful ala cuties
/s

interestingly enough in Last Tango in Paris Nicholson and the director kept the details of the rape scene from the actress before shooting to get a vivid reaction on camera and it made me even more sick than if it was more graphic but totally consented to.