The director herself got a bunch of harrasment and death threats; very unnecessarry. It's one thing to not like the film, but yet we have another case of people being offended or passionate and feel the best way is to respond in violence or threats of rape.
As I understand it, they didn't just distribute it. They also changed the thumbnail/poster for the film from something far more mundane, to a ridiculously sexualized poster that, (according to many) doesn't accurately reflect what the film is about, and is instead, a prime example of the problem with our entertainment media, sexualizing everything women/girls do. A point that the film was trying to address.
The film actually fails pretty hard in its message. One key problem is that the sexualized dances are something a group of girls are already doing when the film begins and the main character is "ending up in a bad crowd". It doesn't show how society itself is causing this but ends up making it seem as if these particular girls just naturally felt attracted to and started engaging in this stuff.
*shrugs* Like I said, didn't see it, so couldn't comment on that. I was just clarifying what I recall being at least one of the issues people had with netflix's involvement, and that it wasn't "just distributing it" as the poster I quoted said.
The routine the girls had at first was much closer to a normal pop routine. Amy sexes it up because she only sees that sexier is better as she wants to shake free from her family. The other girls (we can assume) have had someone tell them that "that's an adult thing, you're still a kid" but Amy hasn't so there is no filter
Wait a sec... Who were those? I don't think there was any call out there.
Media idiots who try to make things appear more sexual? Like the media idiots running netflix.
It's classic google, scraping the interwebs for a summary. Probably from some porno
I saw it (on top of listening and reading through the director's interviews) more as a criticism (if even that) of the sexualized environment that everyone just kinda takes as is.
Isn't the reason moviebob got flack for defending the movie is because he was partly defending the director herself.
Yes, he did get flack, but I don't care about that. She still got harassed and threats sent to her even before Bob started defending her. I don't care if I like her creation or not. The same goes for everyone else. Love or hate something, it's not worth trying to harm that person just for making it. It shows how we can Petty mail into the person is and they got nothing on their lies that they feel the need to threaten somebody to feel better about themselves or feel strong. Especially when it starts sending racist and sexist comments.
