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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | There are calls for a boycott of a Netflix film called Cuties. |
0:12.0 | It's a movie about an 11-year-old's experience in a dance troupe. |
0:16.9 | Critics say it exploits young girls, but the director says she made the movie to show |
0:22.8 | how society sexualizes girls from a young age. |
0:27.2 | So if it makes you uncomfortable, it should. |
0:30.1 | Now, Sarah, you watched it. |
0:31.8 | What was your take? |
0:32.8 | Did you see what the director was talking about? |
0:35.1 | Well, my first problem with this is the cancel culture of this. |
0:40.4 | That the boycott was boycott Netflix, cancel Netflix. |
0:44.9 | I don't know how we went from not just disagreeing about a film or talking about a film and |
0:50.0 | having different opinions to cancel the whole streaming service. |
0:52.9 | That's my first problem with this. |
0:54.1 | But when you talk about what the director said, I appreciate her intent and her attempt |
0:59.6 | at doing what she did, which was to showcase how we sexualize young girls. |
1:04.8 | As a mom and a viewer, I think she missed the mark and ended up sexualizing the girls, |
1:10.5 | but that I don't think was her intention and I don't think she should be castigated |
1:13.7 | for that. |
1:14.7 | There were critics at Sundance Film Festival that disagree with me and I appreciate |
1:19.7 | that disagreement. |
1:20.7 | It was a time where we could talk about art movies, books and say, I liked this, right? |
1:24.9 | Didn't like this and just have a conversation. |
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