CW Sexualization of kids
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OK so I watched Cuties. It's porn 100%. From the first few minutes of there are shots of the girls either in skimpy clothing or even while changing. Even when the girls are just standing around, they're posing.

The girls are heavily sexualized not only in their clothes but in the way they move and speak. There's a scene of them exploring their interest in boys by watching porn at school, describing it in detail for the audience and then trying to film a boy using the urinal.

There's a scene of them trying to pick up older guys and then finding a condom in the park, blowing into it and having to scrub their mouth out with soap. The next scene they try to catfish another older boy online and basically try to sext him.

There are shots of them slapping each other on the ass while learning to twerk and showing each other how to make sexy faces. There is another scene of them twerking for a security guard so he doesn't call the cops on them. And all the dancing is, holy shit over the line.

In one scene, Amy tries to seduce her own uncle to let her use his phone. She then locks herself in the bathroom, takes a nude shot of herself and uploads it to the internet from his phone. When a boy at school calls her a slut she stabs him in the hand with a pen. I-

Their sexuality is portrayed in the worst ways possible. There are ways for a coming of age film to responsibly show kids going through puberty, this isn't it.

Underneath the porn there is a deeper storyline going on, however muffled. It's about a girl rebelling against her traditional family, through her friendship with a group of eccentric girls. The main character Amy is shy and quiet, unwilling to break rules.

Her new friends are the opposite of this and help her get out of her shell. These girls are also extremely controlling and aggressive and a terrible group to hang around. This influence also starts to rub off on Amy as she starts getting in fights.

In the end she gives up on the dance troop and returns to her old life. This is the high point of the film, as she recognizes her family is really where she is loved. She's learned to appreciate what she ran away from in the beginning and she starts being herself again.

If the movie had only been about a girl breaking free from her over bearing family and whatever ensued after, it would have been fine. The entire cast is really talented and direction, aside from being disgusting, is well done. This could have been so much better than it was.