The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix in hot water

On this issue of The Hollywood Reporter, they discussed a recent controversy that could cost Netflix its streaming growth. This is because a member of Wells Fargo has just cut his subscribing by 25 percent. He did this in response to controversy from the movie “Cuties” which has been pretty controversial for Netflix this year. The movie is about young girls, aged 12, who work as pole dancers. I haven’t seen the film, and frankly I don’t plan to, but I have heard it contains some pretty sexually explicit imagery. The Wells Fargo member predicted that Netflix may end up losing some of its streaming because of this controversy. I can see why. Now some have defended this film saying that it’s intended to denounce child sexualization. I believe however that even if the film had good intentions, those intentions likely get undermined by the sexual imagery of the film which involves minors. I personally don’t know why someone thought this type of film would be OK. It pretty much deserves the controversy it got in my opinion and no this is not a “conservative conspiracy theory” its real concern over this type of stuff. Now don’t get me wrong their have been films, I won’t name names, that have gotten flack like this before. But in this case I agree with the Wells Fargo member that this film controversy may negatively affect Netflix streaming, (or not).