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Mignonnes (2020)
How NOT to make a point
Ever hear of a discretion shot? Implied content? Suggestive camera angles? No one involved in the making of this movie did. Here's a hint: most of the "naked" scenes in movies involved clothed actors being shown from the shoulders up, so you get the idea, without flashing the studio and theater. You can ALLUDE to things happening but for the love of all that's good, DO NOT actually show despicable content on camera. Because then you're not teaching a lesson to change things. You're just exasperating the exact problem you're trying to solve. You can have child actresses, or you can have sexualized content. You can't put the two together and claim moral superiority.
Cuties fails the very ones it claims to want to protect in the worst possible way. That not one person making the movie realized this, is almost comically sad.
A Marriage on Trial: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Truth in the Age of Social Media (2022)
NBC has some gall!
You'd think after their earlier disaster pieces that they would have taken a little more time putting this one together, but maybe they were in crisis mode, and therefor weren't thinking clearly. How do you keep managing to make yourself look worse? If they had stuck with the original Savannah Guthrie interview (before the Dateline edit that changed whole sentences into completely different questions and answers) --then NBC would have at least SOME remaining credibility left.
I don't know if it's a case of doubling down on the horse they unwisely backed in this race, or the fact that they smelled money to be had off this case (which is somehow different then the "greedy", "attention-seeking" social media coverage), but the fact remains that this so-called documentary only tarnishes NBC's image in an age where traditional media should be doing more to prove their trustworthiness.