1.25/5 Only giving this a point and a sliver of a quarter is because I can see what the director's "goal" was, I guess you could say.
I stumbled upon this about 4-5 years ago on TikTok, and out of my own pubescent morbid curiosity, ended up cringing through 'x' amount of minutes that were borderline CSAM.
As someone who is generally supportive of breaking the boundaries around censorship and awareness of controversial or taboo topics, I do believe that Doucouré had a vision of publicizing the dangers of pop-culture/internet access and how it affects young tweens... But an NC-17 with a cast of almost entirely girls under the age of 13, raises SO MANY ethical and moral dilemmas.
I'm all for getting down to the nitty gritty, hidden realities that many young girls have to endure; but this is legalized CSAM, and profits are being made off of these children who will have to grow up with these consequences because the adults in their lives failed to protect them.
Rundown: Yes, there is a genuine "moral to the story" about how rapidly the 21st century is normalizing the blatant sexualization of underage girls. But, with the absurd amount of raunchy content, and climaxing the movie with a twerk-off where children are humping each other, that is quite literally what the director was trying to discourage/warn of.
No, a female director does not change how repulsed I personally feel about this movie.
1.25/5 Only giving this a point and a sliver of a quarter is because I can see what the director's "goal" was, I guess you could say.
I stumbled upon this about 4-5 years ago on TikTok, and out of my own pubescent morbid curiosity, ended up cringing through 'x' amount of minutes that were borderline CSAM.
As someone who is generally supportive of breaking the boundaries around censorship and awareness of controversial or taboo topics, I do believe that Doucouré had a vision of publicizing the dangers of pop-culture/internet access and how it affects young tweens... But an NC-17 with a cast of almost entirely girls under the age of 13, raises SO MANY ethical and moral dilemmas.
I'm all for getting down to the nitty gritty, hidden realities that many young girls have to endure; but this is legalized CSAM, and profits are being made off of these children who will have to grow up with these consequences because the adults in their lives failed to protect them.
Rundown: Yes, there is a genuine "moral to the story" about how rapidly the 21st century is normalizing the blatant sexualization of underage girls. But, with the absurd amount of raunchy content, and climaxing the movie with a twerk-off where children are humping each other, that is quite literally what the director was trying to discourage/warn of.
No, a female director does not change how repulsed I personally feel about this movie.
