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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      But the movie's harshest critics seem to just want to pretend the dilemma the movie is talking about doesn't exist "Girls wouldn't want to do that filthy shit if you creeps in the media didn't put it in their head" Well, even if that's true, that horse left the barn decades ago

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      "If Amy's mom had just found that fucking phone and smashed it, or if her cousin had thought to lock it better, this movie wouldn't have happened" Yeah okay whatever Maybe Amy still wouldn't be okay though

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      Anyway I didn't exactly plan this thread ahead but sure, this doesn't directly address the question of "Why'd you have to film the dancing for real and film it like it really was a sexy music video and troll everyone into calling you a pedophile for making it"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      Honestly, I don't know if there's a good way around that It may well have just been a mistake, straight up, to make this movie But I think it's pretty clear what Doucouré was going for -- she wanted to show the Cuties' show through their own eyes

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      Like it's not so much about what the adult audience thinks when they see it (which is the whole problem, because the adult audience WILL have a very strong reaction to it no matter what) It's about the fact that when they do it they feel sexy, empowered, beautiful

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      That's a real desire for them, and in and of itself it's *not a bad thing* If they had better parents they'd know why it's so fucking dangerous to indulge that impulse the way they're doing it but they'd still have it at the age of 20, or 30, or 40

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      The problem is that no one else sees it that way, especially adult men What she was aiming for was to trigger that polarized reaction, which she wants to critique -- which she put onscreen in the form of the two security guards

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      Either the outraged, shouting "This is TRASH!" from Guard #1 or the leering, drooling "This is traaaash" from Guard #2 But either way it's a dehumanizing reaction, it's letting the "HOLY SHIT TEEN SEX" scandalousness override any feeling of empathy you had for the girls

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      (And I guess the controversial thing it's saying, which the people angriest at the film would angrily deny, is that Guard #1 hates/disrespects the girls as much as Guard #2 does That the impulse to "GET THAT SHIT AWAY FROM ME" precludes actually empathizing or helping)

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      I dunno It may well be that this movie just shouldn't exist, because inevitably the provocative scenes will be taken out of context and shared as clips (a real and legitimate concern, like I've said repeatedly)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

      And it may be that I'm primed to be more sympathetic to Doucouré's choices because of all the people saying the movie is worthless garbage and obviously just "softcore porn" or titillating sexploitation like a true-crime story

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          I think there's a good argument this movie shouldn't be on Netflix, that it should be harder to get to -- the kind of movie that in the old days only got released in festivals and small screenings, that today maybe should only be on a niche subscription service for "art films"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          Hell maybe they should just have screenings for women only or whatever, maybe I as an adult man shouldn't be one of the people allowed to see it because it's not for me I'm fine with all of those arguments, honestly, I remain a lot like Guard #1 in my reaction to it

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          But I do get Doucouré, I think, as someone who was damaged similarly by a repressive conservative culture, and who's pretty fucking pissed that the religious conservatives are riding this moral panic to another victory in the culture wars I totally get why she did it this way

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          One of the reasons the moral guardians came after her for being a degenerate was her saying in early press for this movie that her feelings remained "mixed" about this issue That this movie was partly a response to her mom, who is still the mom in this movie

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          That *still* at the age of 35 her mom calls her up and gives her shit about not wearing hijab, about wearing skirts that are too short, about "dressing like a whore" She wouldn't say this, but I do get the feeling this movie is a big "FUCK YOU MOM, THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          Like she's about my age and we didn't have TikTok and smartphones and so forth when we were Amy's age But even so, there was some fucking shit going down among preteens in the 90s You just want to shake them and say "You didn't protect me from jack fucking shit"

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020

          The scene where Amy is fucking practicing twerking when she's supposed to be praying and nobody can tell because her hijab covers her whole body Which people called needless blasphemy and trolling No, it's the whole point of the whole movie in one visual metaphor

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