Donielle Carr

This is a classic tale of a young girl entering puberty & trying to navigate what it means to transition from girl to woman. She experiences internal conflict from being raised with a familial culture of repression & an entire world of female sexual objectification. The poor girl is trying to figure out what it means to transition into womanhood. Obviously, sexualizing young girls is NOT ok, but this art film seems more like a personal coming of age story for the director who mirrors the child protagonist in many ways. There’s a difference between sexualizing young children (which the media is a huge part of) & portraying the struggle of female sexual awakening, which has always been a taboo subject. As a woman who grew up in a repressed household while also living in a world where to be woman is to be sexy, I too, experienced an internal conflict around the age of 11. Honestly, we need more representation of this struggle so that girls don’t feel so alone in trying to understand what it means to grow up. I think far more girls would be less likely to fall victim to societal pressures of female sexuality if there was more representation of that struggle on screen. If you really want to do something to help the children, put an end to child sex trafficking...maybe start there. Also, anyone seen Good Boys?....it’s basically a raunchy comedic version of this movie, but it’s American & is about 11 year old boys discovering sex & exploring what is means to grow up...where was the outrage over that film?...oh!....that’s right, they’re boys...it’s ok for them to explore sex. 🙄