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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 221 | CUTIES: Netflix's DAMAGE CONTROL Is NOT Enough

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Netflix recently announced the release of "Cuties," a film that it described as being about an 11-year-old girl joining a twerking dance crew. This sexualization of young girls rightfully caused an outrage, which prompted Netflix to apologize and change the description of "Cuties," but the company didn't address the real problem: the content itself. Try Theragun RISK-FREE for 30 Days! Go to https://Theragun.com/Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0

Today we are going to be talking about

0:43.7

the scandal surrounding the new film cuties which is due to be released onto

0:47.6

Netflix in September so as we all pretty much know by now there's a lot of filler on Netflix and sure there are

0:55.6

popular shows and movies things that everyone has heard of blockbusters

1:00.0

but there are also things like foreign and independent films on the platform.

1:05.0

Things that aren't necessarily there because there's this huge audience demand for them,

1:09.5

but rather frankly, in my opinion, because Netflix can cheaply secure the

1:15.0

distribution rights to them and use them to kind of fill out their

1:18.7

catalog and you know what no hate toward independent or foreign films.

1:23.4

There's a lot of great ones out there

1:24.8

and I don't want any angry cinephiles yelling at me in the comments,

1:28.0

but it's just a fact of the matter

1:30.3

that honestly, no, most people don't like watching movies with things like subtitles or a dub track

1:37.3

That's just how it is and you know what for the most part especially foreign films they just kind of exist on Netflix without much attention, either negative or positive,

1:46.2

but the same cannot be said for the film, cuties, or Ming-Yun in its original Francais,

1:51.8

a film that debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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