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Originally Posted by Yamer
I watched it and I can understand the criticism, but I do believe it is a major overreaction. The unabashed sexualization was kind of the point; it was supposed to make people uncomfortable. It made me cringe. We should be uncomfortable and reflecting on how young girls are and want to be sexualized at such an early age, despite them not being able to comprehend how problematic that is for them.
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I have to strongly disagree. This is like saying that it's okay to abuse animals when making a movie about animal abuse. These child actors cannot comprehend how their art is going to carry on through their lives. I've watched parts of the movie and it's really,
really gratuitous. There's no reason to zoom in and linger the camera on an 11 year old girls bum while she's twerking on the floor. There's no reason to show a kid twerking and showing how she can move her hips to an older man. No reason for a pre-teen girl to whip her pants down on film and take a photo of her crotch. Literally no reason at all...I don't give a #### what the context is. It's exploitative.
I feel like the subject matter is absolutely something that needs to be talked about, but it needs to be done without exploiting young girls, probably in the form of a documentary. It's hard to think about, but this is absolutely going to be used grossly by pedos. Adult actresses are able to reconcile and understand how some scenes they chose to be a part of will be used and re-posted. These girls are
pre-teens. We aren't even talking about teenagers, these girls are children...kids.
What bothers me the most about this is that people on Twitter have made this out to be a QAnon thing. It's like you can't object to the gratuitous over sexualization of girls without being a Q supporter?? Gross.