Hello.blackcauldron85 wrote:I told my parents what a good movie this is. My mom basically said that it's not her cup of tea, girls shouldn't get a movie like this if boys don't also get a puberty movie. I mentioned Luca as a coming-of-age story, but she's so focused on thinking that the whole movie focuses on a girl getting her period. Omg. And she's a woman. I don't get it.
You don't know me but I was a lurker on this forum who has always enjoyed reading your posts. You always have such insightful opinions and things to share. I just wanted to comment that I pre-screened this movie for myself before showing it to my children because I heard on Facebook how explicit it was. After having watched it, I agree with critics and your mother. It made me very uncomfortable to see a family friendly movie talk about menstruation and treat it like a joke. I also was disturbed by how these teenage girls were so ready to sexualize boys their age (or boys even older). It was a movie that blatantly disrespected parental authority and was clearly biased in siding with kids...you know the people who haven't fully emotionally or physically matured yet and basically have brains that are wired to make the worst decisions. I felt so bad for the mother in the movie who I felt was the real unsung hero but she was disrespected over and over. The most shocking thing to me was how her young daughter started to (I'm using spoiler tags on this word because I consider it an explicit slur and I feel ashamed even using the word in polite company) twerk at her and this was cheered on her by horrible friends who all reminded me of hoodlums from a gang and must clearly have no parents of their own. No wonder Mei's mother did not want her daughter to associate with them. I would have shut the movie off if not for the fact that it was basically over by then.
I think the only thing positive value this movie can teach is for parents and how they need to properly screen their children's friends and the home lives of those friends. Hope to hear more from you on the matter.
