Netflix encourages people to watch Cuties. Also, Netflix defends Cuties.
Netflix defends Cuties after many viewers have called for a boycott of the service.
Watch The Trailer Of Cuties, as Netflix Defends Cuties
The French film was released on Netflix on Wednesday, it was after the director Maïmouna Doucouré took the Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition (2020 Sundance Film Festival). However, the movie has faced a backlash among the viewers who felt that the movie was sexualizing the girls.
The coming-of-age film explains the tale of French-Senegalese 11-year-old girl Amy, who appears from a conventional Muslim upbringing, and her fight to unite this background with contemporary internet society after she unites with a dance troupe, that is called the ‘Cuties’.
The film is aspired to as an objection of ‘hyper-sexualized’ culture, but many have comprehended it as more of a glamorization, provoking #CancelNetflix to trend on Twitter. But now we see that Netflix defends Cuties.
In a video, Why Doucouré has made such a movie, she explains. According to her, it is ‘a deeply feminist film with an activist message’. The streaming platform supports her and thus Netflix defends Cuties.
Doucouré said, “Our girls see that the more a woman is sexualized on social media, the more she’s successful. And the children just imitate what they see, trying to achieve the same result without understanding the meaning. And yeah, it’s dangerous.”
“[Amy] believes she can find her freedom through that group of dancers and their hyper-sexualization. But is that really true freedom? Especially when you are a kid? Of course not. Amy will, in the end, realize she can control her own path.”
Netflix defends Cuties. Netflix has also upheld the film and motivated people to watch it.
A spokesperson of Netflix said, “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children.”
“It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
The movie has got 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 1.9 out of 10 on IMDb.
