Wtf is this pedo shyt on Netflix

[duncanthetall]

They show her pull down her pants and her underwear. You dont see body or nothing but still... just too much.

Yikes. I thought people might’ve been making a big stink over nothing but JFC. Nope

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

Can some mod ban this pedo apologist @TheGodling?

I don't usually browse this part of the forum so I don't know if he is a troll or what, but based on the post I've seen in this thread his mindset isn't a healthy one and not on par with other users.

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

They show her pull down her pants and her underwear. You dont see body or nothing but still... just too much.

Exactly. It's not porn, it's soft porn for the masses.

Everybody involved with this movie coming on the screens should be sent to hell.

 

[TheGodling]

Can some mod ban this pedo apologist @TheGodling?

I don't usually browse this part of the forum so I don't know if he is a troll or what, but based on the post I've seen in this thread his mindset isn't a healthy one and not on par with other users.

Suggest banning people for providing context to discussions, brehs.

I know most people don't want to engage in this discussion because it's easier to just be blindly outraged but any who actually watches the film can see the director's intentions. That some imagery or scenes are too much or too far is debatable on the art, and I think the director definitely made some mistakes there, but anyone who thinks this film is made by/for pedophiles can't possibly have seen it.

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

Suggest banning people for providing context to discussions, brehs.

I know most people don't want to engage in this discussion because it's easier to just be blindly outraged but any who actually watches the film can see the director's intentions. That some imagery or scenes are too much or too far is debatable on the art, and I think the director definitely made some mistakes there, but anyone who thinks this film is made by/for pedophiles can't possibly have seen it.

In TheBooth where I normally hang I dont talk and don't associate with tranny lovers or Aubreys Angels. Imagine me going back and forth with, what it looks like, a pro-pedo.

I outed a pedo already and got him banned. Don't be next.

 

[re'up]

People have lost it. The fact that "culture wars" are still a thing in 2020.

 

[TheGodling]

In TheBooth where I normally hang I dont talk and don't associate with tranny lovers or Aubreys Angels. Imagine me going back and forth with, what it looks like, a pro-pedo.

I outed a pedo already and got him banned. Don't be next.

Whatever tough guy.

 

[JarrodG]

This film isnt as bad the masses make it out. Just a regular coming of age story involving a black girl

 

[AtlienInTheGoodieMob]

Me and my girl sat down and watched this, this is softcore porn for pedos period.

If LifeTime for the past 30 years can pull off movies that had abuse/sexual abuse against women in a subtle way where we the viewers knew what was going on without the movie explicitly showing it, then the people behind this movie could have did it to.

This shyt was blatantly showing little girls being sexual one scene had the little lift up her shirt showing her chest.

if you are defending this movie you a pedo

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

This shyt was blatantly showing little girls being sexual one scene had the little lift up her shirt showing her chest.

Haven't seen the movie, just some scenes including the one you're describing but the most disgusting one was when the girl does a "private" dance for the 2 guards.

What is that supposed to mean, Mr. Pedo Director? Because we're dumb over here and don't get "art".

I said, I'll say it again: everybody involved with the making of this movie should be outed as pedo or pedo supporters.

 

[staticshock]

Cancel culture for clout is in full effect.

I watched the film today and almost everything is in context of these girls not actually understanding anything about sexuality or being confronted with it.

Take this tweet:


The girl who takes the selfie does so out of rebellious anger after being mocked for wearing "childish underwear" (normal underwear for an 11 year old). It causes a boy at her school to call her a slut and her friends to disassociate with her because they know it's too far.

There is no "webcam porn". They chat with an older boy one of the girls likes while pretending to be an older girl. One of them turns the camera on and once the boy sees it's the girl he immediately leaves because he has no interest in an 11 year old.

The girls tease the newbie into taking a video of the boy mentioned above in the school toilets so they can see his penis. This comes after a conversation about penises and sex where it's clear they have no understanding how sex works.

The girl who finds and blows up the used condom doesn't know it's a condom. She thinks it's a balloon. When one of the girls realizes what it is they all mock her by saying she's dirty and full of bacteria now. The next scene has the girls literally washing her mouth with soap to prevent her from getting aids.

I could go on and on. Two dudes start talking to the girls and the girls love the attention but the dudes immediately walk away when one of the girls spills that they are 11 years old, etc. etc.

Ironically (and I thought this was done very subtle and therefore brilliantly) the only men in the film who are shown to "like what they're seeing" are white. So it actually calls out white pedo culture throughout the film.

Anyway, there are a few scenes that I think the director could've shot differently for better effect. Some of the dance scenes are deliberately filmed like the mature twerk videos the girls try to imitate, and that's where you get most of the close-ups of these girls. I understand the decision when it then shows that video getting thousands of likes on social media (thus boosting the girls' ego's), but the film is actually far more effective when it steps back and shows how awkward the girls look trying to achieve that effect.

A huge part of the film btw is about the main girl struggling with the other end of the extreme. Her family are Muslims from Senegal and her father has decided to take on a second wife. While this weighs heavily on the mother, their old fashioned aunt forces to follow tradition (suppression of the woman in marriage) despite the shame and pain the mother feels. The girl sees and endured similar treatments throughout the film, causing her need to rebel. The constant juxtaposition between the two extremes is a bit heavy handed but does work perfectly for the end.

Spoiler

The girl abandons both of her "costumes", one the skimpy dance outfit for the competition with the girls and the other a traditional dress her father bought for the wedding to his new second wife, and leaves the house dressed like a regular 11 year old, to play a game of jump rope.

In the end I wasn't comfortable with a few bits either, and I think those moments work against the film, but judging the film as a whole those are artistic mistakes in a film that makes the right points.

Side-note: Netflix clearly still doesn't give a fukk and is riding the controversy for what it's worth, even putting the film in the top of the trending section here. On top of that, everything I watch on Netflix is always the original language with subs. This film however for some mysterious reason started with the English dub on. And I fully believe it's on purpose because Netflix wants to feed off the controversy, knowing that the moment people realize they actually put on a French language arthouse film, they will turn that shyt off right away.

This film isnt as bad the masses make it out. Just a regular coming of age story involving a black girl

defend pedos brehs

and @85 East is in here dapping every post that’s saying the movie isn’t bad

 

[Cole Cash]

saw the movie, it was very fukking good. period.

 

[True Blue Moon]

Yo, do they really have these girls bare-chested in this movie

I keep seeing that mentioned but that seems wild as fukk even by foreign/indie standards. I can't tell if brehs are exaggerating or not.

 

[TheGodling]

This shyt was blatantly showing little girls being sexual one scene had the little lift up her shirt showing her chest.

Being sexual only because they don't understand sexuality. The main girl watches some music video with a bunch of big booty women twerking, then the next scene has her sitting in the hallway of her apartment complex looking at the butts of the women walking by, like she just became aware of the sexual aspect of butts for the first time.

And there is too much false context surrounding the "boob" scene. The only bare chest in the film is when the little girls watch a video of a dance group of older girls in their neighborhood and at the end one of them quickly pulls her shirt up. Social media loves attributing that scene to the main girls like you are watching 11 year old bare chested when it isn't the case.

Haven't seen the movie, just some scenes including the one you're describing but the most disgusting one was when the girl does a "private" dance for the 2 guards.

Again, no context. There is no "private dance". The girls sneak into a laser tag building through the backdoor. A security guard apprehends them and asks them about their parents but they mock him. When he grabs one of them by the arm because they want to walk away they start shouting and calling him a "pervert" and "pedophile". A second security guard arrives and says they have had enough and will call the police.

Then one of the girls starts screaming happily because she gets a text that they got selected for the dance competition. The girls all jump together in joy and the guards tell them to cut it out. The girls start saying they can't call the police because they can't be punished by their family and miss the competition.

The guards are like 'don't pull this crap on me' and to prove they are actually dancers the main girl does some dance moves while the others cheer her on. The first security guard looks on like while the second (an older white guy) looks a bit like . The first then says he's had enough and tells the girls to go home already. Then he calls out the second guy for his face and hits him with a 'Seriously dude?'

If LifeTime for the past 30 years can pull off movies that had abuse/sexual abuse against women in a subtle way where we the viewers knew what was going on without the movie explicitly showing it, then the people behind this movie could have did it to.

And I think this the fair point of the discussion. I too think the director could have gotten her point across without a bunch of close-up scenes during the dances, especially after a while it feels like 'Yes, you have made your point'. That doesn't make it pro-pedo, it is just a poor artistic decision.

To me the real discussion is still people being outraged at this film but refuse to talk about the role social media (and media exposure of sexuality in general) play in defining what kids experience.

I was talking with a friend about this the other day. I was 11 years old when Britney Spears' Baby Hit Me One More Time became the biggest song out. The music video was heavily criticized for sexualizing Britney Spears in that school outfit, but it didn't stop all the girls in school from karaoking the song and learning dances, and of course, wanting to dress like her. Same with the Spice Girls before around the same era.

Keep that in mind and then imagine what kids today are seeing as popular when WAP by Cardi B is the biggest song of 2020, multiplied by the power of social media with how easy it is to share pictures and videos to garner popularity (likes).

Because like the girls in the film, it's not about being sexual, it's imitation in order to be popular. I'd much rather prefer people to be worried about the real life dangers that the film depicts than worry about the way the film decides to depict them.

 

[The axe murderer]

@TheGodling you watch that documentary the social dilemma? Kinda similar to what you are mentioning