Cuties

[Dill]

(09-18-2020, 11:40 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I know this issue is very sensitive for you, but the comparison shouldn't be that confusing.  You've been defending this film as a commentary on western values.  While I conceded the film's point in my very first post I also stated it was executed and marketed in an exceedingly poor fashion and the film's critics have a legitimate point.  Where does islam come in, quite simply the contrast between islam and the west is at the crux of this film, which I would think you would know having claimed to watch it.  So my point is to contrast the wildly different reaction to a film critique of western culture that traffics in (borderline?) pedophilia to a film that made similar criticisms of islamic culture.

I guess it's easy to be "stunning and brave" in a culture that actually practices tolerance, despite the never ending barrage of criticism it gets from everyone else.

                                                  
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(09-17-2020, 11:32 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Alternatively we could make all women wear burkas and beat them when they don't follow the orders of their male relatives or husbands.  I wonder why we haven't seen that movie?  Maybe part of the problem is that only one culture's flaws or issues is subject to close scrutiny whereas criticism of others is completely haram?

But what do I know?

That is, perhaps, the central question.

Let's start with your answer to this: Why do you say that in Cuties,

"only one culture's flaws or issues is subject to close scrutiny whereas criticism of others is completely haram"?

Where does that come from?   You do NOT claim to have seen the film, right?