Maybe it's because I don't see little girls as sexual beings, but I don't find anything about this movie arousing or suggestive. These are dance girls doing dance moves; I'm not entirely sure that I'd be anything more than viscerally shocked but morally ambivalent if two really talented 13 year olds wanted to recreate the dances from Dirty Dancing.


I'm also naturally curious how this movie would've come off if it were about young male dancers, particularly since other countries that have healthier relationships with their sexualities had no problem with these young women performing these moves and America has such a specific psychological profile when it comes to images of women no matter their age.


Netflix really should've just kept the original promotional material and probably have not even changed the name from French to really drill home that this is an independent "arthouse" film from a Somalian Black woman rooted in her own experiences as an immigrant child that Netflix bought the rights to and not some Netflix original about twerking Black children.


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