I don't actually think all the things that went wrong in my life were because of my parents, and honestly when other people try to instrumentalize that I get really mad ("I'm just trying to save Asian women from their repressive home life", says the creepy white dude in college)
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And yet how can you not still be MAD about this shit ESPECIALLY mad because they insisted, and still insist, that all the stupidest, most destructive things they did was them trying to help and protect you
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I guess this is the strongest argument you can make for Doucouré's motives being impure as a filmmaker Like I don't think she's a predator or that she herself has sexual interest in children But I do sense a tinge of envy when filming the Cuties scenes, of that mixed reaction
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Like she knows it's fucked up, and she wants you to agree it's fucked up, and yet a small part of her actually wishes she'd had the guts to do this when she was a kid "My mom would've fucking DIED and you know what it would've SERVED HER RIGHT"
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(I'm saying this is a bad thing, for the record, that it's a bad reason to make this movie and a possible reason the movie is "worse" than it could be, that it's slippage between her POV on this topic as an adult and her attempt to be sensitive to an actual kid in the 2010s)
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But I mean people who say Doucouré got into filmmaking for the sake of softcore porn with preteens are obviously wrong, like 180 degrees wrong Her obsession as a filmmaker is with the love/hate relationship with Islam
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Cuties is an expansion of her short film, Maman(s), which is just a movie about the plot about a daughter watching her dad take on a second, younger wife and her mom pretending to be okay with this This endless silent scream as everyone around her treats this like it's okay
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That's the story she keeps wanting to tell, that's the story she came back to here, and the actual stuff about the Cuties in Cuties is the "expansion" of the story Maman(s) was the silent scream and Cuties is "What would that scream sound like if she could give it voice"
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"If Islam is constantly telling me that this is okay, that this isn't fucked, that this is what being a woman is like and I have to just accept it, what is the loudest, nastiest, harshest, most final way I can spit in the face of Islam and of Allah"
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Which is why french right-wingers have not jumped on the "this is a pedo movie" bandwagon: because they think Doucouré settling scores with her family, community and uprising on film can be used to justify their own "Islam is shit, our white bourgeois values are superior!"
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Yeah I figured it was like that, which honestly is another argument that the movie may have been ill judged for the audience it ended up getting American conservatives seem split between saying the movie is perverse because it's anti-religious and saying it proves Islam is evil
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