The picture is fairly tasteless, featuring the girls in flesh-baring tube tops and sexualised poses, which is what led to the online calls for the film’s cancellation (from people who hadn’t seen it).
Accordingly, the artwork selected to accompany previews of the film on Netflix, depicts Amy and other members of the gang in various twerking poses, presumably acting out some kind of routine. Cuties is, according to its synopsis, about Amy, an 11-year-old Senegalese Muslim, who is torn between the traditional values of her background and a group of rebellious young girls. Unfortunately, Netflix bungled the release. It’s fair to say, then, that the film was set to land on the platform with a good deal of advance hype. The same year, her screenplay for Cuties won Sundance’s global film-making award, allowing her to develop the movie, which would go on to win the directing jury award at this year’s Sundance and get snapped up by Netflix. It is the feature-length debut by Maïmouna Doucouré, a young film-maker whose short film Mamans won a César award in 2017.
The CSE Institute stands with survivors as they voice their lived experiences.Y esterday Netflix released promotional artwork and a trailer for a new film called Cuties ( Mignonnes, in its original French). But in the case of Cuties, QAnon and other conspiracy theorists have twisted the realities of human trafficking and child sexual exploitation to create mass hysteria and public outcry. The themes in Cuties are incredibly important we must recognize and address the hyper-sexualization of young girls. The CSE Institute stands firm in our beliefs and mission of combatting sexual exploitation, especially for vulnerable women and children. Maimouna Doucouré, the creator of Cuties, explains that the film is actually a “ criticism of the very things it’s being accused of promoting.” The film aims to demonstrate “ what it means to approach womanhood between two cultures, as well as the wider theme of the hyper-sexualization of youngsters in modern society.” However, others have explained that the content and message of the film have been simply misunderstood, and that both sides have “ the same fight about the issue of hyper sexualizing children and believe in protecting children.” Cuties is not a film that promotes lewdness, but rather is a “ coming of age” story that comments on girls’ transition into adulthood and the pressure young girls have to “rush and grow up” especially in the age of Instagram and TikTok. Unsurprisingly, the film has also been the target of QAnon conspiracy theorists and the #savethechildrencampaign, who have used the film to attempt to legitimize their claims on child sex abuse in Hollywood and sex trafficking in general.
Texas senator, Ted Cruz, even went as far as to say that the creation of the film, and Netflix’s streaming of it, amounts to a “ production and distribution of child pornography,” and that “ pedophiles around the world will find ways to manipulate this film in abusive ways.” Other right-winged supporters agreed with Senator Cruz’s position and called for Netflix to be “#cancelled” on several social media sites, and argued that the film’s content promotes pedophilia and child sex trafficking. As Netflix prepares to face criminal felony charges, public controversy over the film continues to catch fire on both sides of the political spectrum, but for very different reasons.Īccording to Texas senators and many other conservatives, the Netflix film “Cuties” hyper-sexualizes 11-year old girls as they are shown posing and dancing in a provocative manner throughout the film. On October 8, 2020, a Texas grand jury indicted Netflix for “ promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child,” by streaming the French award-winning film “ Cuties” on its platform.
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