![]() What the Avengers movies are to comic-book geeks, Cuties is to pedophiles - this, even though there is no sex in the movie. Mary Margaret Olohan September 10, 2020 Here, in this tweet, is why Netflix is in so much trouble: Cuties is a deeply dishonest film that exploits its young cast nauseatingly, yet tries at the end to justify it with a too-pat moral. ![]() Cuties does not feature nudity (just a very quick glance at an adolescent girl’s breast), but it centers on the grotesque sexualization of minor girls - the title characters are a pack of 11-year-olds in Paris. It was hugely controversial over the subject matter, and the fact that Shields did nude scenes. Let me explain.īack in 1978, Louis Malle made a film called Pretty Baby, starring 12-year-old Brooke Shields as a child prostitute in New Orleans. But inside the grossness of Cuties is a reasonable point - but not one you can tell in film, or at least not in this film. It’s almost as bad as you think, and Netflix deserves all the grief it’s taking over the thing. I don’t like people condemning something without having seen or read it. ![]() Well, I watched Cuties so you don’t have to.
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