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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

I havent seen the movie, but from what I have heard it starts off on the negatives of far right Islam, when the dad flies out to go pick up his second wife. It alienates the daughter where she seeks out the cuties group to feel appreciated.

They then see lewd music videos (very similar to WAP coincidentally) and see the response how everyone says its great and gets so many likes. The group then tries to mimic it. The movie ends when the main character rejects these lewd dances and opts to do more traditional childhood activities like jump rope.

Overall the message of the movie is much more a conservative message of traditional family values, against the over sexualization of women in our culture and the damage it does to kids. I think the main complaint comes from the movie having waaaay too much sexual shots of the kids, and could have made the point just fine w/out most of that stuff.

You could've fooled me because you hit the nail on the head. Though the girl at the beginning in general just doesn't like the restrictive Islamic culture and the "cuties" group was her way out of it (she sees them having fun while she wasn't having any of it). But yeah, this movie is the Artsy Fartsy Indie Oscar Bait kind of film where it follows the "show but don't tell", which is the reason why the movie is never in your face about what it's trying to convey. Though you can see why this movie is trying to make you feel uncomfortable as possible with the dance scenes, hence the camera angles and all that, which yeah I can see why it would rub people the wrong way (because it honestly does feel exploitive, like do these girls realize what's going on when filming this?). Anyway it's all in the main character girls perspective and it doesn't really say what's good and what's bad, but it's generally a story about a girl coming of age and her finding herself from 2 completely different cultures.

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