In hindsight it kinda seems like putting Cuties on Netflix at all was objectively a mistake, and the people blaming Netflix's marketing department are probably wrong -- "better marketing" for the movie would've just been kicking the can down the road, this backlash was inevitable
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It really does feel like this was just a fuckup from beginning to end, you CANNOT release a movie like this on the Internet and have anything good come of it ...And yet, of course, the people screaming for Doucouré to go to prison are still the fucking worst
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I haven't seen the movie, I don't want to see it (I haven't seen Pretty Baby from 1987 either) I dunno if I'd go so far as to say it "shouldn't have been made", but I feel like there was a lot of misjudgment going on in giving this movie the equivalent of a "wide release"
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A *lot* of shit that gets people in trouble is so-called "context collapse" That there's a difference between making a joke, or making a point, or thinking out loud with a group of trusted friends and venting it all into a big public space for everyone in the world to react to
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I get Doucouré's argument "I didn't want to make an after-school special", that the emotional reaction she's going for she felt she could only get by showing the raw reality of the stuff that disgusts her
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But man it's a huge huge unwarranted assumption to both just implicitly trust your audience that they'll "get it" and be disgusted the way you want them to, and to expect your audience to trust *you*
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I'm reminded of what Lindsay Ellis once said: "Framing and aesthetics supersede the rest of the text. Always, always, always."
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Framing and aesthetics matter a lot more than what the script says, yes, and Maïmouna Doucouré's decision to play the dance scenes in Cuties "straight", to actively shoot them as sexy as possible, is playing a huge role in the backlash
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This is why Haneke's Funny Games is so brilliant. It's one of the rare films I've ever seen where the folks he's criticizing largely get angry watching it because he deliberately titillates the audience with a scene of pure violence shown onscreen, then immediately undoes it
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