I got a $100 credit at Mignonne Gavigan as my Platinum cardholder appreciation gift, but the code on the certificate doesn't work. Has anybody else experienced this?
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"this gotta be the dumbest thing I've seen on this sub, but that's the goal so have my upvote smh":
User claims defends the movie, stating that "The absolute best way to show something is an issue is to show the issue". Another user responds by listing everything wrong with the movie:
"Literal fucking children are the exact people doing the things in this movie, it would be disingenuous to replace them with anything but children.":
"Good on you for watching the film and daring to make this thread.":
OP defends himself by saying: "These people don't just not understand the movie, they are actively avoiding the possibility of ever understanding it because they know there is a few minutes of things that they don't like."
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It was surprisingly normal. Just the average coming of age girl movie, with a bit of a more progressive twist at the end.
Teen girl is raised in strict immigrant religious home. She rebels through her newfound sexuality and teen angst. She makes mistakes, and realizes she has been acting like a brat. She apologizes to her parent(s) and reconnects with her culture. Movie ends.
I did think it was interesting that at the very end she doesn't participate in her family's traditional celebration, instead dressing like a normal western teen and going outside to play jump rope.
I think it is commentary on immigrants being able to assimilate to a new culture without losing their roots or falling into the wrong crowd.
Overall 8/10, I don't see what the big deal is. But I have seen a lot of movies most people would find scandalous so maybe I'm just weird.
Let me preface this by saying that 'Mignonnes' is a French film- which is another way of saying there is likely content that is perfectly fine with French audiences because their culture is accepting of it.
The single biggest mistake when it came to this movie was ever even considering releasing it to US Netflix. Why?
Because American audiences simply could not handle it. We (as a people) were quite literally just not ready for this sort of thing.
American people and their culture are notoriously puritanical when it comes to basically everything involving sex of any kind. Despite the current sexual revolution (and the strange obsession with sexualizing people/things) sex is still highly taboo in the US, and Americans have been culturally programmed to see anything with 'lewd' material (even nudity in general) as pornography, which could not be further from the truth.
As a film, Mignonnes tells a genuinely somber and down-to-earth coming of age story, one in which children try to navigate the confusing, ever-changing world around them during a time when internet culture is bleeding into all aspects of society.
At its worst, this movie pays a lot of attention to its borderline lascivious dance scenes-- which, again, don't even show anything sexual, there's just a lot of provocative movements with some mildly questionable camera angles every so often. The dance scenes are what American viewers pay attention to the most, despite everything else happening in the film.
Funny how Americans, who claim to be so against child pornography, will focus all of their attention on these alleged offenses and ignore everything good about this movie, which was genuinely directed and written very well, and I stand by that opinion.
At its best, this movie takes its time to establish a cast of characters who all feel like real people and they get into events that actually could happen. (And most likely have happened.) This is a story about growing up, learning who you are and what you want to be. This is a story about questioning faith and realizing the places that other people have in the world, not just your own. The dance scenes were simply there as a result of these characters doing what children do- discovering themselves--even if that means it can be a little risque, which absolutely does happen.
Yes, the director's vision of this being a movie that calls out against sexualization of children is a little odd when you consider the creative direction that it d
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I didn't realize the French cannibal meant literally.
This is a movie about a girl who is faced with insane amounts of oppression, judgment, harassment, and serious decisions at a very young age. It's a journey through hell into a second hell and then back to realize that there are compromises that can be made; escaping, rebelling is not the answer, and in fact, it is often extremely detrimental to do so. This movie is the directional debut of a woman with African heritage. It is a movie about independence, it fights against the objectification of women, and condemns the hyper-religious dogma that has serious effects on millions of people. Is this not exactly what every radical progressive and feminist would want to see in a movie?
This is one of the most unapologetically progressive movies I have ever seen. And yet it is being condemned by every "progressive" out there because of how Netflix chose to advertise it, and because of how ridiculously reactionary western "progressives" are.
I guarantee you that everyone who was upset by the poster would love this movie because it lines up exactly with their morals and beliefs, most likely. But these "progressives" are too stupid to even give things a chance, they plug their ears and shout "you're a pedo if you watch Cuties omg I can't believe u could do that" to anybody who tries to tell them otherwise. It's actually fucking devastating how common this thought process is, I live with 4 other people and one night Cuties came up and EVERYONE was talking about how bad it was based on either the poster or whatever clips they saw on twitter. If I so much as tried to point out how nobody had watched it they would accuse me of being a creep, like "why would you watch it?" I thought I lived with smarter people, but if they can be convinced then I take it as a testament to how many other people also feel this way.
Additionally, every outfit seen in the movie is a completely realistic portrayal of girls in dance. This has been a subject in the community for years and years, this movie is being nothing but accurate by dressing the girls the way they do. If that's the only reason you're refusing to watch it, then you have a LOT to learn from this movie. I also recommend watching this youtube video. And maybe reading some actual reviews of the movie. Maybe pull up an episode of Dance Mo
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Partagez ici vos anecdotes mignonnes d'élèves. Il ne s'agit pas de se moquer, mais plutôt de partager une anecdote, une petite phrase, un comportement d'élève qui vous ont fait sourire. Parce qu'un peu de bonne humeur dans notre métier ça fait du bien de temps en temps !
Je commence avec une anecdote de mes 5e alors qu'on étudiait les attributs des empereurs médiévaux sur leurs représentations numismatiques, et je leur demande à mes élèves de me décrire les personnages sur les pièces.
Elève 1 : Alors, euh, il a un chapeau...
Moi : Un chapeau ? Un empereur, il a un chapeau ?
Elève 2 (avec un éclat dans le regard) : Mais non !!! C'est un casque de chantier !
J'ai eu vraiment beaucoup de mal à pokerface et réprimer un grand sourire en imaginant le crossover entre Léon V et Bob le Bricoleur...
Et vous ?
First of all, fuck QAnon
Cuties is social commentary critical of the “hyper sexualization” of young girls, about an eleven year old from a conservative family who basically goes down a rabbit hole of sexualized dancing in order to fit in. I thought the movie was extremely powerful and effective, but in order to achieve that effect they had scenes that were pretty explicitly sexual involving these kids. They feel like being punched in the stomach to watch.
However in having these child actresses perform these scenes, the showrunners directly contradict the films message by exposing the actresses to the concepts at play in the film. the actresses were also 11. I believe that at that age they can’t meaningfully consent to being sexualized on camera.
I’m seriously confused as to why the showrunners (mostly the writer who was clearly very sincere in her messaging) were willing to sexualize children in order to make a point against the sexualization of children.
I think most likely measures were taken to make sure the girls were comfortable, (e.g. in one scene the character watches porn but the actor doesn’t) but I still feel this performance was asked of people who cannot consent and is therefore exploitative.
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