Netflix indicted by Texas grand jury over 'lewd visual material' in Cuties

[snoop1130]

Netflix indicted by Texas grand jury over 'lewd visual material' in Cuties

 

‘A mirror of today’s society’ … the cast of Cuties. Photograph: AP

 

Netflix has defended the controversial film Cuties after it emerged the streaming giant is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the movie’s allegedly “lewd” depiction of children.

 

Cuties follows an 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in Paris who rebels against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a “free-spirited dance crew”.

 

A grand jury in Tyler County, Texas, has indicted the company on the charge of “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child”. The indictment claims Cuties appeals to the “prurient interest in sex” and the material holds “no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

 

A Netflix representative told PA: “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children. This charge is without merit and we stand by the film.”

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/07/netflix-indicted-by-texas-grand-jury-over-lewd-visual-material-in-cuties

[Orton Rd]

Madness, there is no sex or nudity, yes the 14-15 year olds did a bit of sexy dancing but no worse than you see in Africa. Nobody seems to mention it was made by a Muslim woman to contrast what she sees as wholesome Islam to the decadent western culture corruption kids. Maybe she went a bit too far but hysterical warnings about pedos getting off on it are over the top. In real life the girl in the film would have been stuck in a hijab, have had FMG and gotten nowhere near a dance stage, nobody seems to get outraged about real child abuse like that though, the film was FICTION.

Edited October 7, 2020 by Orton Rd

[NanLaew]

A couple of the most popular venues on the US's rather disturbing child beauty pageant circuit are in Texas.

[NCC1701A]

this film should be banned. 

[pookondee]

14 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Madness, there is no sex or nudity, yes the 14-15 year olds did a bit of sexy dancing but no worse than you see in Africa. Nobody seems to mention it was made by a Muslim woman to contrast what she sees as wholesome Islam to the decadent western culture corruption kids. Maybe she went a bit too far but hysterical warnings about pedos getting off on it are over the top. In real life the girl in the film would have been stuck in a hijab, have had FMG and gotten nowhere near a dance stage, nobody seems to get outraged about real child abuse like that though, the film was FICTION.

"yes the 14-15 year olds did a bit of sexy dancing"

 

Sorry to say, but the majority of Thailand will not be horrified with this kind of news. 

 

Ive been to a few weddings and parties in Isaan where ive had to look way in disgust.

 

14-15y.o, even younger, doing dances that would make a sailor blush..

 

and the parents and Thai friends laughing and clapping em on.

[cjinchiangrai]

They have not watched many of the Texas middle school cheerleaders at the school games each week. This is total nonsense.

[brewsterbudgen]

Cancel culture gone mad.  What a world we're living in.  Madness.

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The indictment claims Cuties appeals to the “prurient interest in sex” and the material holds “no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

There comes a ban on all the Hollywood productions....

[impulse]

Ahhh.  East Texas.  Deep in the Bible Belt where it's illegal to have sex standing up because it's too much like dancing. 

 

Where I wouldn't be surprised to see a statue on the town square honoring Rev Shaw Moore, John Lithgow's character in Footloose.

 

[lust]

People on here defending soft core pedo-fuel and outraged by teachers using corporal punishment in the classrooms. What a mad world we live in, indeed.

[Kerryd]

This same film was in the news in mid August for much the same reason, except then it was about the promotional poster(s) used to promote the film in the USA.

        The "made for America" poster                     The original one


You can see from the new poster that it was all about sexualizing young girls. It looks like the photo was taken in a go-go bar. The director claims she never saw the new poster until after all the controversy flared up.

Keep in mind that the director's intent was to show how decadent "western" culture is. She claims she saw some young girls dancing provocatively at a block party (in France). It seems she was shocked by what she saw and the message the girls were sending so she decided to make a film about and spent a year and a half interviewing young girls. 

"The film is a cry of alarm, she says, a nod to girls of 13 or 14 “followed by 400,000 people just because they posted pictures of themselves in thongs”."

“The main message of the film is that these young girls should have the time to be children, to enjoy their childhood, and have the time to choose who they want to be when they are adults. You have a choice, you can navigate between these cultures, and choose from the elements of both, to develop into your own self, despite what social media dictates in our society.”
 

Edited October 8, 2020 by Kerryd

[eeworldwide]

What a lot of nonsense.
 

Isn't it interesting that people the world over seem to be turning a blind eye to Instagram and Tik Tok where after a few seconds searching, you can see pre-teen girls wearing much less and dancing far more provocatively - WHICH IS WHAT THIS FILM IS ABOUT!!!!!!

So if anyone is going to be taken to court it should be these 2 big companies for facilitating the kids and encouraging them to dance like sluts online for all and sundry.

And if anything else - the parents of our children should be slapped in the face and told to wake up to what their kids are doing online.

 

The same parents complaining about this rather tame and boring film, are the same ones hollering about child porn etc. None of it makes sense.

 

[Mick501]

Much ado about nothing, although they've given a lot of free publicity to what sounds like a terribly boring film (must admit to not having seen it).  How they can say a mainstream movie release doesn't have artistic merit is anyone guess.  Only in Texas.   Hopefully costs and punitive damages for malicious prosecution are awarded to Netflix.

[wwest5829]

21 minutes ago, Mick501 said:

Much ado about nothing, although they've given a lot of free publicity to what sounds like a terribly boring film (must admit to not having seen it).  How they can say a mainstream movie release doesn't have artistic merit is anyone guess.  Only in Texas.   Hopefully costs and punitive damages for malicious prosecution are awarded to Netflix.

Unfortunately not, “only in Texas”. The American Taliban is well in the Bible Belt (the same areas with the highest porn viewing).

[jingjai9]

I did not see this film but by reading the comments herein, I would say the movie attempts to expose the pornification of our modern culture. Opinions seem to vary as to whether or not the movie conveys its message successfully. 

 

If the young children in the film look sexy to the viewer, could that possibly be evidence the viewer is a latent pedophile? Are we far from the day when people will be arrested for what they think?