PARENTS TV COUNCIL URGES PROBE OF NETFLIX FOR 'SEXUALIZED' CONTENT AMID 'CUTIES' CONTROVERSY
In it, she wrote, “We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society." “Cuties” writer and director, French-Senegalese filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré, also previously penned an op-ed for the Washington Post.
Netflix has previously defended the title as "a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up.”
'CUTIES' DIRECTOR HIT WITH DEATH THREATS FOLLOWING NETFLIX'S POSTER BLUNDER 23, Fox News confirmed via court documents. 'CUTIES' MOVIE SEES NETFLIX USERS FLOCK TO THE SCREEN DUE TO CONTROVERSYĪ Tyler County, Texas grand jury moved to return an indictment against Netflix on Sept. The streaming giant was recently indicted on a criminal charge that alleges the film promotes 'lewd visual material' of a child. 'CUTIES’ DIRECTOR DEFENDS NETFLIX FILM AMID FIRESTORM OF CRITICISM: 'IT'S FEMINIST' “It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,” Sarandos told the Mipcom market, according to Deadline. Sarandos said during a virtual MIPCOM - the annual global market and conference for entertainment content - on Monday that the movie was “misunderstood” in America and took umbrage with language within the indictment that claimed “Cuties” “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.” The film tells the coming-of-age story of an 11-year-old Senegalese girl as she discovers her maturing self, all while looking for acceptance in her religious family and group of young dancers she hopes to befriend. The streaming giant was recently indicted on criminal charges in Texas that allege the film promotes “lewd visual material” of a child. Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos is hitting back at critics who have been loud in their distaste of the controversial film “Cuties” that has spurred intense backlash since it debuted in September.
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