I dunno, man. You just told on yourself by saying you haven’t seen it. You really need the full context. (Or maybe you don’t. I feel like I’m on a list after watching it.)

You can communicate how girls are over sexualized with dialogue and acting as opposed to closeups of an eleven-year-old girl’s crotch as she does a vertical split or a lingering shot of her butt as she twerks right into the camera. Some of those shots are so intense and lean in so strongly that it feels like the camera operator is about to penetrate those girls with the lens There is something to be said for the way girls are taught that their value is in their sex appeal, that a lot of girls are forced to grow up too soon, that social media has a toxic effect on our development, and so on.

The director just goes about it in the worst possible way. Maybe don’t try to call out creeps by giving them something to jack off to.

It is the war movie problem of saying “war bad” and then splashing war across the screen like it’s this glamorous thing, but there are standout movies like Come and See, which gets across the ‘war bad’ message without accidentally slipping into jingoistic popcorn fodder territory.

Under a more competent director, Cuties could have been great. But it wasn’t, so it’s not.