THIS MOVIE ISN'T COMMENTARY. THIS IS JUST BEING THE THING. I am absolutely disgusted right now.
The camera is the lens through which the audience is meant to view the story. So when you spend several scenes focusing the camera on underage girl's bottoms while they twerk - and JUST their bottoms, mind you, for an uncomfortably long amount of time - you are specifically focusing our attention on the body parts being sexualized, rather than the characters themselves.
This is not an emotional journey from a young girl spiralling out of control. We don't see the consequences of hyper-sexualized behaviour. We barely know who this girl is or what she wants for her life.
This is an incoherent mess completely devoid of character analysis or growth. A movie where plot points are picked up and dropped out of nowhere and context is so lacking that at times you can't even tell which characters are in the scene.
This is exploitation, pure and simple. Children this age are literally too young to understand or even begin to comprehend consent. What parents in their right minds would allow their 14-year-old OR ESPECIALLY THEIR 12 YEAR OLD to be filmed in this manner? Let alone have this shown to the entire world?
Adult content doesn't make a film thought-provoking. It just means that there's adult content in it.