Do you think perhaps the director's perspective on that event might be different from, say, yours because she is a woman, or more specifically, because she is a woman who is also a second generation immigrant from a Muslim cultural background.Based on what I read, the director didn't grow up with these issues, she just was present as an adult at some event in france where she saw kids twerking and the audience were muslim women in their full ninja gear and she was disturbed by the girls dancing. So it's less that she was a kid with these feelings growing up and more that she wanted to explore that contrast of girls growing up with bronze age morality at home and wanting to rebel and going overbroad but I am pretty sure there were no topless 11 year olds in the event she observed lol.
I recreated the little girl who I was at that age. Growing up in two cultures is what gave me the strength and the values that I have today. I can appreciate my double culture and live between my parents' one, which is Senegalese, and my French Western one. And as a child, that question of how to become a woman was my obsession ... I put my heart into this film, because this is my story.
I mean, not every piece of art has to be autobiographical. That would be very limiting. But having a diversity of perspectives in media rather than being solely preoccupied by the experiences and fantasies of white men simply because that's the demographic of most people working in the industry seems like an overall positive thing to me.
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