on this note...
Have you seen:
1.) Deepthroat
2.) Cuties
3.) 50 shades of grey
4.) The First Temptation of Christ
1.) No, I actually haven't seen Deepthroat. But to be honest, I get bored of porn pretty quickly in general. I feel like once you've shot your wad 15 minutes in there really isn't much point to watching porn
I'm not anti-porn or anything like that. I just tend to get very bored of porn very quickly. I do know about the controversy surrounding that film though. As to whether Linda Lovelace's claims were true or not. I don't know.
2.) Cuties...yes, yes I did. No, you don't need to call Chris Hansen on me. But I did force myself to watch it after seeing both the ire of the far right and overzealous defence from the far left. But the other reason being, I had seen the works of Larry Clark back in the day (another filmmaker who has been accused of being pedo-friendly) and so I was curious to make my own mind up about this one just as I did with his films back in the day (most notably Kids.)
I understood the intent of what they were trying to do with this film. The intent was to make you purposely uncomfortable with its imagery as if to open your eyes to a problem in society and the way in which young girls emulate what is presented to them as normal. The problem for me was it's preaching to the converted while simultaneously appealing to those who don't care about the well meant intended message. I get what it's trying to do. It's trying to throw those images back in your face while saying "still find it sexually appealing now that it's minors?"
The problem is that film is very much a "have your cake and eat it too" type of film where I understand the well meant intent behind it, but shudder to think of some creep using it as spank material.
But that aside, I found the film to be a painfully mediocre coming of age story with an unlikable little shit of a protagonist who never felt once redeemed, despite what the ending tries to convey. To me, that film was all about the shock and awe with very little holding it together elsewhere. It's the most basic bitch ass coming of age story with a seedy layer on top.
Amy struggles through self-esteem and seeks validation throughout the movie and eventually gives up on something that validates her as a ‘good child’, as a ‘good girl’, without much of any friction. Why did Amy want validation? Why did she desire to escape? Did she dance only to please and not self-pleasure? All these questions remain untouched, unanswered. Leaving me to wonder what was the point of everything I just watched outside of the basic bitch ass message that oversexualisation of children is bad? Which I already knew.
I will admit, it was one of those times where I did think "maybe this shouldn't exist as it is dangerously walking that line" but then that would make me a hypocrite. While it never crosses the line, it does walk the tight rope for me. I understood its intent, but did I really need to see it? Probably not. I could live my life never seeing this again and be perfectly okay.
Controversy aside...I thought it was a completely mediocre coming of age story that would go completely unnoticed had it not been for the in your face imagery which dangerously walks the tight rope between being scathing critique and unintended (or so they say) pedo spank material.
3.) Yes, I saw the first movie just because I needed a good laugh
Anything that was born from Twilight fan fiction needs to be mocked.
4.) No...truth be told, I hadn't even heard of this until now.
