first and foremost, just wanna come out and say that i’m fully against pedos/maps, whatever you wanna call it. fuckin digusting.

i will however fucking defend this movie because the internet has once more jumped into judging something before ever actually watching it - if it was actual pedophilia i would of course understand not watching it but after reading many articles, one of which the author actually watched the movie, this entire thing has been blown way out of proportion.

it appears to me Netflix botched this movie. the creator/director of the movie had no say in the marketing of the movie and so the initial gross poster that Netflix used wasn’t even run by her.

speaking of her, she is a french-black director and this is her first dip into film, her name is: Maïmouna Doucouré and if you look at this link the poster that was used during Sundance differs a lot from the one Netflix chose. - LINK

she decided to make this movie and to shape it after her own life experiences, she spoke about it in an interview - LINK

the entire film is meant to be a commentary on the hyper-sexualization of young women, how girls see older women as role-models and attempt to emulate that, how children no longer have time to just be children.

it’s a conversation we need to have and i hope this eventually morphs into an actual conversation.