Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 16 2020 02:37pm)
imo if it was toned back it wouldnt have gotten any traction, and the message of sexualizing young girls wouldnt have been pushed as far to the forefront.
is that not the argument made by liberals for violent or property damaging protests? blocking highways, burning state buildings, smashing windows, etc. eventually a problem gets to a level and must be addressed, if it makes people uncomfortable GOOD. i'd rather do that through media than stopping people getting to work. "its different tho", yeah yeah, i get it. i hear the GOP say that about kneelers, "it's different". the crowd in hte movie was visibly uncomfortable, the audience in their homes is uncomfortable, seems successful in making a lasting point.
in Irréversible, a french film, Monica Belluci is anally raped for 2 straight minutes of screen time, then brutally beat into unconsciousness. its one of the most vivid memories of my life and legitimately changed who i acted towards women.
The main reason I'm uncomfortable with this is because it's bad to sexualize kids, and in making a movie where you sexualize kids to say it's bad, you've still done exactly that. Like, if you have a rape scene in a movie, that's including a shitty thing as subject matter but she's not actually being raped. If you have a movie about women being exploited the women aren't necessarily being exploited in making that movie. In this case though, you're actually doing the thing that you are criticizing, and saying "Yeah but I'm criticizing it" isn't a get out of jail free card.
So in this case, it becomes more effective the more you sexualize the girls, but you are still sexualizing the girls, so you have to play a fine balance between sending the message you want to send, and making pedo fap material.
I think Cuties went too far in that regard, and could have made some smarter choices about how to make the movie.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Sep 16 2020 02:09pm