How Netflix's Cuties sparked a culture war in a tiny Texas town
.” The film, about an 11-year old girl who joins a Parisian dance troupe in rebellion against her traditional Senegalese family, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and began streaming on Netflix last month.
Roebuck also predicted that Babin would find himself inundated with paperwork from high-powered First Amendment lawyers, and that the case was unlikely to go anywhere. In theory, the prosecutor could also seek a penalty of twice the streamer’s profits from the film, if that figure could be determined.
“I think it’s going to cost them some money to defend, but I don’t think they get convicted of the charge,” Bennett said. “The Tyler County D.A. has to prove, in the face of whatever resistance Netflix puts up, that ‘Cuties,’ taken as whole, does not have serious artistic value. That’s a no brainer. He’s not going to be able to prove that. It won an award at Sundance.”, a 1973 case that set the standards for obscenity.
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