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A silent witness to all this trolling going on.
Look at the pedophileBeing 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.
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 likewhile 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
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.
Stop quoting me you filthy human being.
y'all are ridiculous