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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I don't even think the critics are entirely wrong "That was taken out of context" is less and less of a defense of any content in the online era Of *course* clips from the movie will be taken out of context, that's how the fucking Internet works
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The *vast* majority of all the movies I've seen some part of nowadays -- which is orders of magnitude higher than the number I would've seen in a pre-digital era -- I've seen only as clips on YouTube to highlight a joke or make some kind of point
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And so the whole "You can't make a movie critiquing the thing without actually doing the thing and appealing to the audience for the thing" argument -- Truffaut's Maxim -- is truer than ever Any violent gun scene will appeal to violent gun fans Any nudity will appeal to pervs
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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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Well, in this country, anyway. A lot of people here seem unfamiliar with the idea that something can happen in a movie without its being endorsed by the movie. It's like thinking a movie about the Holocaust must be pro-genocide, because hey, they're showing it.
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