It's supposed to be a satire, it's an exaggeration of modern social trends, that's the whole point Satire is difficult and often fails, and you can argue Cuties did fail, but saying the movie should've been an accurate look at a children's dance crew is a ridiculous criticism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
It's literally the same thing as the ending of Little Miss Sunshine The point of the ending of that movie is no one would actually literally have a preteen girl strip and pole dance onstage, and the judge is horrified and the audience is disgusted and they try to shut it down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
Just as in Cuties the idea is Amy is so sheltered she doesn't know the dance moves she's stealing from music videos are considered risqué even for adults, she becomes popular among the Cuties as the edgy "bad girl", and they also horrify the judges and get shut down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
That's the joke, they innocently looked at the whole point of a dance competition and "took it too far" The idea that a kid who doesn't know anything would see "normal" dancing, provocative "sexy dancing" and actual porn as all being on a continuum, the same basic kind of thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
And we "know" it's different and in fact get really heated about the difference - a "legitimate" dancer would get really upset and angry about being compared to a stripper or sex worker - but that's because adults are too smart for our own good and filled with hypocrisies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
You can agree or disagree with this message but it seems like a pretty obvious message to me, and a lot of the anger here feels like it's because it does hit close to home Like here you are fervently arguing only a creep could possibly find anything sexual about Dance Moms
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Replying to @arthur_affect @THEamberadams and
Oh the anyone who thinks it's noncery is a nonce argument. Good luck with that one.
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Replying to @Zhu_Zhanji @THEamberadams and
I'm saying that Cuties is really obviously a satire against shows like Dance Moms, like the Cuties literally are a dance crew like the one on that show (if an "unrealistically" unsupervised one) Your argument that there's no possible comparison between the two is weak
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Replying to @arthur_affect @THEamberadams and
There is but that doesn't really ameliorate that this is right on the edge of what you can legally watch without a visit from Police Constable Plod.
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Replying to @Zhu_Zhanji @THEamberadams and
The point of the movie is that it's a collision between the glitzy glamorous world of something like Dance Moms and the genuinely unsupervised and anarchic world of TikTok and Instagram, that shit like this actually is all over the place online where most adults don't look
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I mean again, that's not subtle, that's literally what happens in the movie (Amy doesn't know anything about secular culture, steals a phone and starts mimicking stuff from social media, accidentally becomes the popular "bad girl" by bringing those moves to the Cuties)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
Like yeah in a "realistic" version of this movie either she joins a legit dance crew run by a Dance Mom who knows better than to let anything get so blatant, or she keeps all her edgy shit online for anon creeps and all the consequences also stay online That's why it's a satire
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