Casside Parfait

I watched it and this movie had so many opportunities to tell the same story without producing media that included sexually explicit scenes and an alarming amount of footage of children behaving like seductresses with 80% of their bodies exposed. You can warn against the hyper-sexualization of children without explicitly showing children being hyper sexualized. I remember being 13 years old and watching the YouTube video of Amanda Todd my school showed the middle schoolers. During that video, everyone was mortified at what happened to that girl and not once did that video ever show her pictures she was bullied to death for. I am a college aged woman and I felt sick watching some of these scenes. I will not sit here and say that no child has ever behaved as the children in the movie do, but why would you document this sort of content and mass produce it? I know when I was younger I felt pressure to act more mature but I have never seen anything like this level. Is it for shock value? Was there not an option to just elude to sexually explicit things happening? There are scenes in the movie like we can hear the mother hitting herself without the viewer seeing it. We hear an 11 year old girl vomiting in the bathroom because she feels pressure to be skinny, but we do not see it. There is no justifiable reason that exists to include an entire choreographed stripper dance or zooming in on the butts, groins, chests, and faces (when biting their fingers or making “bedroom eyes”). You absolutely do not need to see child pornography to know the severity of how wrong it is. This movie mass produced at least half an hour of sexually explicit content and released it to the public, where literal pedophiles have access to it. I will concede that seeing it elicits a much stronger response- for example FBI investigators and police officers are exposed to child pornography due to the nature of their job but that is out of necessity. This movie was unwarranted and again is accessible to the public. When I went to a program called Sudden Impact that teaches about save driving and showed traumatic footage of people my age who died due their injuries from motor vehicle accidents. However, I know plenty of people who didn’t take that course and still obey the rules of the road because you don’t need to see graphic injuries to know things such as drinking and driving is wrong. Furthermore, I was warned about the content of the program and had to consent to agreeing to view it; the footage was used in an actual educational matter that involved healthcare professionals from local hospitals as the introducers