I don't see what the movie being "unrealistic" has to do with anything one way or another, of course it's unrealistic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
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 @Zhu_Zhanji and
In Cuties there were no parents involved in the dance activity. This alone is a searing indictment against dance mom culture in the US where the moms/parents are involved at every level. They KNOW what’s going on.
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Right, the argument the movie is making is that the adults who "protect" kids in real dance crews aren't really protecting the kids but just providing plausible deniability, covering their own asses while they make bank off of exploitation, but it's all really the same thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @THEamberadams and
And yes, unfortunately, this is obviously also an argument you can turn against Doucouré herself and her own film shoot That's the whole danger of satire I'm fine with saying Doucouré failed and the movie is a bad movie, as long as we accurately discuss what she actually did do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zhu_Zhanji and
Exactly. I don’t see how anyone can watch it and get anything different from it.
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