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Hold up..
Some straight people made a movie*, and somehow the gays are at fault for the fallout and controversy? WTF?
FUCK STRAIGHT PPL!
* I haven't seen it yet so reserving judgement, but I suspect "crotch fingering" described of 11yos is rather more alarmist than appropriate
Some straight people made a movie*, and somehow the gays are at fault for the fallout and controversy? WTF?
FUCK STRAIGHT PPL!
* I haven't seen it yet so reserving judgement, but I suspect "crotch fingering" described of 11yos is rather more alarmist than appropriate
I missed this but (thanks, @RodentWild)
Cuties is just being used as a launchpad to trash black queer women. This is vile.
Cuties is just being used as a launchpad to trash black queer women. This is vile.
For anyone watching this Janice Turner seems to be wildly exaggerating what Exist Loudly were actually doing, leaving innuendo to so the work of implying flagrantly unsafe behaviour that Tanya Compas to my knowledge hasn't engaged in.
So I've watched like 2/3 of the movie and for sure there are a lot of really uncomfortable camera direction, plot and choreography choices that have been made, that I feel like they make it difficult to tell what kind of message the film is trying to put across.
All the same tho
All the same tho
the attempts to try and somehow connect this with "Gay campaigners" and LGBT youth worker organisations are really deeply unpleasant.
I feel kinda weird that I'm watching this finally to try and see how much culture war bullshit there is surrounding the film, tbh.
I feel kinda weird that I'm watching this finally to try and see how much culture war bullshit there is surrounding the film, tbh.
Deleted a comment that I made before I'd finished watching the film now.
Going to recommend this review which you should read first, by @CampbellX because I think it's really good. https://twitter.com/CampbellX/status/1304220361010094082?s=19
Going to recommend this review which you should read first, by @CampbellX because I think it's really good. https://twitter.com/CampbellX/status/1304220361010094082?s=19
The first 2/3 of the film it was very hard to see where it was going which makes watching scenes emulating highly sexualised pop culture stuff not just uncomfortable but difficult to process. Q's like "why are we having such a long run of close-frame shots on an 11yo's rear".
Having seen the whole thing now I get what the filmmaker was doing, and feel more firm that the public outcry (comments that this is child pornography from some!) is a failure to really follow along with what the movie is doing.
I'm also deeply sus of the CP allegations.
I'm also deeply sus of the CP allegations.
I think some of this also follows a much wider pattern of conservative adult moralising about children. One of the really big themes in the film is bullying and violence among the girls (which is constant and often as unsettling as the dance stuff) and it feels very weird that..
..it's gone completely undiscussed. The film deals a lot with rivalry, hopes of escaping conservative expectations & also being trapped in a restrictive social clique who are on the one hand comfortable when the new member makes them look good and also drop her when she doesn't.
The whole movie, the protagonist can't seem to get anything right consistently, and in the public debate it feels like the same thing playing out on the director/filmmaker.
I feel like @CampbellX is right to ask "Can't her voice be heard too" here. Messy awkward films and remembering to cope with the reality of messy awkward lives is good.
