My observation about a controversial movie I refuse to name, so it doesn’t appear that I’m promoting it.
I watched it because my kid sent me a text about how bad it was. Ugh. It sucked. Bad movie. Bleh.
I’m more libertine about sex than the average person so I went in with an open mind. I think Americans and American Christians are too judgmental and puritanical in their views on sex. I find that most American Christians treat the bible like a software EULA (End user license agreement) and have no understanding of what it really says. They just click ‘agree’ so they can get on with their day.
The French are pragmatic about sex and they always have been.
Having said that, those little girls were dancing like sex crazed ho-bags. I have to admit I clutched my pearls and gasped.
But, none of the girls were naked. None of them had sex. There were no leering grown ups salivating at the site of them twerking.
In fact, in the final dance number, the adults in the audience are shaking their heads, giving the girls thumbs down and covering up the eyes of their children. If you watched all the way through, the main character, Amy, starts to cry and can’t finish the routine. She runs home to comfort her mother.
If you watched the entire film, the way I did, you would have discovered that Amy, the main character, was from a Muslim family. The father is gone for most of the film. We find out later that he isn’t there because he’s taking a second wife, which breaks Amy's mother’s heart. It broke my heart.
It disturbed me that the religion, as it was portrayed in this mediocre movie, is so completely dismissive of women that they seem to be saying that men should have a collection of them.
When you take the movie as a whole, Amy isn’t just going through puberty, she’s rebelling against a repressive, misogynistic religion and the bleak future that is in store for her. She doesn’t seem to have anything to look forward to.
As to the question of, “What about the pedophiles?” They’re gonna get their jollies doing far more dangerous things than watching this movie on Netflix. They’ll go to Disneyland and take up-skirt pictures of little girls. Or, like a guy I used to work with did, corner a little girl in the toy aisle of a Walmart and talk her into lifting up her skirt so he could snap a few pictures. (He’s in prison now.) Or they’ll kidnap a kid. Or kill a kid.
I doubt that pedophiles are going to look at this movie as a masterpiece. In fact, had an American politician, who I refuse to name, hadn't held it up as being for pedophiles, the perverts wouldn't even know it existed.
The best question of all is why did I feel compelled to watch this minor little independent French film?
It was a stroke of genius.
The president allowed himself to be interviewed, on tape, by half the team that dethroned Richard Nixon. To take the stink off the revelations discovered in those 18 interviews that Bob Woodward did, republicans took a deep dive into the vast ocean of publicly accessible media and found something they could say was made for pedophiles. They did it knowing that good ol’ liberal democrats would jump up and defend it’s right to exist as art, thus perpetuating the Qanon conspiracy that democratic leaders are pedophiles and baby eaters.
Best of all, the libtards will fight among themselves.
They picked an independent film because there would be very little push back. There wouldn’t be corporate studio money to fight against the rising tide of outrage and indignation coming from the united states of puritanism! Besides, the movie is famous now. It’ll open the doors for the film maker to make lots more mediocre, obliquely controversial, movies. Yay!
And I’m playing right into their hands. You really can’t win with this one.
But let's hop back into the subject of 11 year old girls shakin’ their thangs. If you don’t want them to do it, you shouldn’t do it yourself or allow them to see other women doing it.
The only reason a girl would want to do it is because someone made it look cool. Or, having raised a few 11 year old girls myself, because I told them they couldn’t do it.
11 year old girls are a pain in the ass.
The film would have dried up and blown away if someone hadn’t held it up and called it smut. It was an obvious ploy and it worked incredibly well. I can guarantee you that when I get to work tomorrow the dispatcher won’t be talking about the Woodward interviews, he’ll be screaming about how the baby eating liberals were defending Netflix’s right to air kiddie porn.
But hey, that’s politics, right?
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