(ETH) – Netflix is under fire once again and this time they are being accused of exploiting young girls in a new debut film called “Cuties” that is scheduled to air on September the 9th.
The film is a French movie that reportedly follows an 11-year-old protagonist named Amy, who is a prepubescent kid hoping to escape her Senegalese family’s deeply conservative roots by joining a “twerking” dance troupe with other underage children.
According to a report from Faithwire, the plotline has Amy that is suddenly made aware of her “burgeoning femininity” and encourages her fellow children “to enthusiastically embrace an increasingly sensual dance routine” as they “hope to twerk their way to stardom.”
Apparently Rotten Tomatoes also awarded the movie with an 82% “fresh” rating and critics have argued the upcoming film is “a compelling crowd-pleaser” that “heralds an indelible directorial voice” and should be “respected for its audacity.”
Faithwire states that some critics of the movie have suggested “Cuties” is actually a form of commentary about “how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young age.” However, they warn that it seems counterintuitive to intentionally sexualize underage girls in an effort to make the case for why the intentional sexualization of underage girls is a bad thing.
