Mignonnes

I held off on the basic-bitch takes against Mignonnes aka Cuties, at least here. I admit to revulsion at Netflix' paedotastic cover; I certainly approved 4chan's call to block it. Anyway now E;R has the real review, and the real explanation on why conservatives (especially) dislike it. It turns out that the conservatives are right, for once. Perhaps by accident.

This movie isn't about normalising noncery, at least it wasn't about such when it was just a French indie. The CheesePizza - as noted elsewhere - falls along that Pretty Baby borderline, not to mention all those creepy MTV videos over the 1980s. Or heck, Little Miss Sunshine (disclosure: this one, I've watched).

E;R observes what's at work here in Mignonnes is its aim: undermining the conservative family. The movie picks on Senegalese Islam in France, but by extension applies to all those petty bourgeois communities. The movie proposes to contrast Islam - conservatism - with this form of dance so as to demonstrate them as mirrors of each other. It doesn't help Islam's case that it does, in fact, peg the Age Of Consent (much) lower than we do in the West.

As for Netflix, they're in on it. What the French liberals say about "Islam", and what they mean to do to it; American liberals say and mean la même chose for Christians.

NEW WORD 9/17: Let's give a Chuck Dodgson Award to Gregory the Tall for mediaite attempts to spin this abomination: "paedophistry".