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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And I think film critics and film school people are perhaps willfully naive about this "But if you watch the WHOLE movie you get the CONTEXT for why this is BAD" Yeah, but that's not how normal people watch movies and it never has been
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Orson Welles talked about this, that the whole nature of a movie is that you REALLY GET TO SEE THE THING The people who want film to be a narrative medium like print are in denial about this, that most people don't approach cinema to hear a story but as tourists, to see a thing
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