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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Replying to @scott_a98
"Wrong" in a moral sense, I dunno, that's a huge question above my pay grade It's just a fact that if you make a movie about child sexualization, two things will happen: 1) actual pedophiles will flock to it, 2) pedophile hunters will start a crusade to destroy you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @scott_a98
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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...Are you saying most people don't watch a whole movie? They only watch part of a movie, and then just... Stop?
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They don't PAY ATTENTION the way people ideally wish they would, they sit there waiting for the "good parts" I think this is true even for movies you watch in a darkened theater as a big event, but it's obviously many times more true for stuff you watch at home streaming
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Hell, if you hang around in fandom spaces it will not take you long to encounter people who claim to be big fans of a thing but who really clearly failed to understand the plot in really basic ways.
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Even in non-visual mediums you get this; Lolita very pointedly contains absolutely zero prurient content and is unambiguous that its narrator is a monster, but nonetheless so many people believe it's torrid pornography or (somehow worse) some sort of great love story.
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The so-called "misaimed fandom" of Lolita is a very strong argument that trying to make a movie of it at all was a horrible, horrible idea
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I'm kinda confused. Why would a movie be a horrible horrible idea and not the book itself?
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Because film is a visual medium, which means creating a visual representatation of what's happening rather than using words. What could have been insinuated or described in terms of characters' internal thoughts must instead be literally shown.
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