‘This Is Legitimate Child Porn’: Netflix Under Fire for Explicit ‘Cuties’ Film By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire
The streaming service Netflix is facing a mountain of intense backlash after releasing the controversial film “Cuties.”
Initially, the company was criticized for publishing artwork depicting the French film’s characters — all underage girls — in sexually suggestive poses and revealing outfits. Netflix pulled the poster in late August, claiming at the time its depiction wasn’t representative of the film’s content.
It turns out, Netflix was right: the film is much worse than the poster.
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“This is legitimate child porn,” wrote Jason Howerton, a father and conservative media personality, after seeing a brief clip from the film showing the scantily clad, 11-year-old girls performing erotic dance moves. “I am [expletive] raging.”
Unfortunately, Howerton’s description isn’t exaggerated.
According to the IMDb parents guide, the sex and nudity in the movie is “severe.”
“During one of the many highly sexualized [and] erotic dance scenes that purposefully exploit [and] objectify numerous scantily clad under age girls, one of the female child dancers lifts up her cropped top to fully display her bare breast,” reads the database’s parental warning. “This is lawfully defined as pedophilia and can be extremely distressing to many viewers.”
The IMDb guide also includes a “trigger warning,” describing a scene in which one of the prepubescent girls watches a female-led rap video during which “naked women role play through dance both heterosexual [and] lesbian sex acts.” The group of girls then mimic the actions they watched.
Throughout, the film includes “lengthy [and] excessive closeup shots of breasts, bums, and spread crotches of scantily clad 11-year-old girls during numerous sexualized dance routines,” according to the guide.
So, I thought the Cuties/Netflix thing was being sensationalized… but the IMDB trigger warning literally describes “female breast nudity of a minor(!!!)”
If you had that on your computer, you’re going to jail. If it’s on Netflix, it’s art??? pic.twitter.com/0eu8dZDX5j
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) September 10, 2020
