“Cancel Netflix” trending after new movie that “sexualises children”

"Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew..."

"Cancel Netflix" is trending following the release of a new film on the platform. Cuties, according to Netflix, follows Amy, an 11-year-old Muslim girl who joins a group of dancers named “The Cuties” at school and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity — upsetting her mother and her values. The movie won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at the Sundance film festival this year, and is also rated high on other movie review websites, such as Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising the movie for its handling of sensitive topics. However, once the movie's ad landed on Netflix ahead of Cuties' September release date, the streaming platform has found itself in hot water, and on the receiving end of some serious backlash. Thousands took to Twitter to vent their thoughts on the movie's artworks, with many saying the poster sexualises children. One Twitter user called it “disgusting,” while another said, “Netflix really messed up here.”  https://twitter.com/mrsutanumaity/status/1304256803543420930?s=20 What is turning out to be an even bigger fail on Netflix' part, is that the movie's original French poster was vastly different: Spot the difference? Yeah, you are not alone. And it didn't stop there, actually. It seems Netflix went with a bit of a different blurb to describe the movie too:

The original description of the film reads: “Amy an 11-year-old joins a group of dancers called ‘the cuties’ at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity – upsetting her mother and her values in the process”.

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