Exactly right. This movie is a big slap in the face to the hip hop culture.Many people commenting on this film have not watched it or have a clue what it is about.
What do y’all expect when these kids see the same thing during superbowl half time show. That is what cuties was all about. How our kids are subjected to this hip hop culture everyday and they want to emulate that and “fit in” with the cool kids. There was nothing wrong with the movie itself, it was a true depiction of what our youth are exposed to every day and it being normal and kids want to be like britany speers, miley cyrus, madonna etc. What is sickening is how this movie was marketed
Its amazing that girls growing up in a culture of hypersexualization don’t end up completely schizophrenic. Imagine trying to understand this when your heritage, like Amy in the movie, is a paternalistic collectivist Muslim culture that relegates the lives of most women to servants of men.
The allure of using sexual power to resist this inevitability must be incredibly exciting but in the end, as Amy learns, it leads her away from her “true” self which is that of a young girl growing up as a member of a family and community.
Its actually a very conservative message if you can get past the predictable knee jerk reactions of the conservative matriarchy to the superficial mimicry of hypersexual pop icons by clueless little girls who “just want to have fun”.
The best analysis simply put. It very well may have a good message overall but is marketed as pornish and unnecessarily graphic with pedophilia imagery defeating the purpose of a positive message.
This is just a continuation of Britnany Spears, Madona and Miley Cyrus. The “moral” is just thrown in at the end to save face.