Tim Reviews Cuties (Johnsonverse)



On October 1, 2020, Tim Johnson posted a video on YouTube, called "Tim Reviews Cuties". As of July 2021, it holds over six million likes.

Review
"Hey everyone, this is Tim Johnson here, and oh boy. It's pretty clear by now that 2020 is an absolute trainwreck in basically every way. But to see a... film... like this? Cuties is a French movie directed by Maïmouna Doucouré, in her directorial debut. It won an award in Sundance back in January, which should be unsurprising because one of its founders got exposed as a pedophile. When they tried sending it to me to get it on Netflix, I rejected it on sight. Contrary to the title, I will NEVER watch, let alone review, that quote-unquote "film". I'm not a pedophile, and anyone who is a pedo should seek help, or if they're irredeemable, go kill themselves.

According to the synopsis, the movie just follows an eleven-year-old immigrant girl named Amy, played by Fathia Youssouf, originally hailing from Senegal, currently living with her mother Mariam in one of Paris's poorest neighborhoods in an apartment along with her two younger brothers, waiting for her father to rejoin the family from Senegal. Things turn swiftly as Amy is fascinated by her disobedient neighbor Angelica's twerking clique known as "Cuties", an adult-style dance troupe that has contrasting fortunes and characteristics to Mariam's Islamic customs, values, and traditions. Alright, I'll bite. If the characters were teenagers, and were played by women aged 18 to 22, plus removing all the Islamophobia, it would've been somewhat fine. But Doucouré was r-worded enough to make them eleven-year-olds, completely going against her own anti-sexualization message."