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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020

      This is a raw topic after all the discussion of Shane Dawson and his shameless sexualization of his tween audience (which he defended as "satire") I think it matters that Maïmouna Doucouré is a woman herself, and this movie is rated TV-MA and not intended for children to watch

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020

      Even so I admit I kind of cringe at the stuff the reviews say she had her actors do for the sake of the story (at one point one of the girls finds a used condom and blows it up like a balloon, not knowing what it is until too late)

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020

      So I do feel like Netflix's marketing team stepped in it here by launching a campaign that feels so much like it just straightfowardly is what is being satirized (uplifting tween twerking crews as "empowering") But the concept is inherently problematic no matter what

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    4. Plutoburns‏ @Plutoburns 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I feel like the message of "sexualizing ourselves is the only way to escape poverty" could be done with older characters and then a scene or subplot to indicate how young it starts. But uuuuugh at this rate im gonna have to watch it

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Plutoburns

      It sounds like it's not primarily about escaping *poverty*, although the money is a factor It's about how Amy sees Cuties as her escape from this stifling culture that tells her being a woman is a life of drudgery and servitude, the fucked-up idea of sexuality as "empowering"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
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      And -- this is the dicey part -- it's because she's only 11 that the movie gets across the idea that this is FUCKED UP as strongly as it does If she were 14 or 16, and *especially* if she were 18 or 20, people would just go ahead and say "Hell yeah it is empowering you go girl"

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns

      That's the whole problem with satire, of course -- it's quite likely that even despite making the premise as deliberately shocking as she did, Doucouré has not escaped the segment of her audience that unironically does think 11-year-olds twerking is empowering

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    8. Plutoburns‏ @Plutoburns 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Or the REALLY gross ones who granted theres basically no way to dodge if you pick this as your topic

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Plutoburns

      Yeah I mean that's the problem with doing satire, *especially* in a movie as opposed to in text It's Truffaut's thing about how you can't do an antiwar war movie, because just showing war and killing is going to excite the people who like that kind of thing Only worse

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns

      You can't really "ironically" have sexual content or nudity in a film Like you can film that shit to be as ugly and disturbing and horrifying and unsettling as you want "in context" but someone will always come to the theater who gets off on it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns

      Especially now, in the Internet era, when it's never been easier to take something out of context Scarlett Johansson did an interview about doing full frontal for Under the Skin and how even though she never put nudity off-limits it was a strategic choice

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns

          "You've got to look at the project and decide if the positive artistic impact is going to be outweighed by the number of people who will take just that still and turn it into the desktop image for their computer"

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