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The union leader of the Norwegian Film Directors’ Union, Marianne Kleven, takes seriously Sylvi Listhaug’s (Frp) proposals for the Netflix film “Cuties”.
Listhaug believes that the film should be removed from the streaming service because, in his opinion, it sexualizes children and “may help trigger pedophilia.” However, Listhaug reveals to Dagbladet that he has not watched “Cuties”, only clips from the movie and the trailer on YouTube.
The debate over “Cuties” is also one of the topics on today’s episode of Dagbladet’s “Right on” podcast:
– Garbage
That a Storting politician tries so hard and draws pedophilia to the critic of a movie without having seen it, makes Kleven react.
– It’s rubbish and it gets too thin. It’s like responding to an audience without reading the audience’s notes. If I had seen “Cuties”, I don’t think it would have been phrased this way. I’ve seen it, and it’s a very good movie from an obviously talented director, who achieves his goal: social criticism, Kleven tells Dagbladet.
“Cuties” is not only very critical of the sexualization of children, it is also an adult film about how difficult it is to be young to understand growth. It also addresses a number of issues related to women’s rights and liberation, Kleven continues.
– Spend time advertising.
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This week, the Norwegian Media Authority published the survey “Children and media 2020”, which states, among other things, that one in four children aged 9 to 12 has received advertising for weight loss and products that allegedly give bigger muscles. The Norwegian Media Authority is concerned about the increase in body pressure.
The Norwegian director of filmmakers believes Listhaug should draw attention to the mass marketing to which children are exposed.
– I wish Listhaug would use this room to regulate the ads that children and young people are bombarded with every day. It’s what affects them, not this movie. Selling products is the exact opposite of a critical movie about our time, says Kleven.
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– Watch it with the kids
“Cuties” describes the life of an 11-year-old girl from Senegal who has recently moved to Paris. The mother has little time for her and the father is absent. “Amy” is from a Muslim home and must commit to her own values and culture to join a group of girls whose great passion is dancing.
It is especially that the girls in the film, in an attempt to copy celebrities and dancers they see on social media, practice drastic and sexualized dance numbers that have made “Cuties” the target of boycott and criticism, especially in America. .
– An important tool in the film is that the people who see the dance think it is disgusting and wrong. I think I should watch this movie with my daughter. If you watch with your kids, there’s a lot to discuss later. How critical and conscientious young people are is too often underestimated, says Kleven.
