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I believe that the film makers THOUGHT they were sending a message/social commentary and that it was fine in that sense.

In reality however it was a hopelessly misjudged and frankly reckless piece of film making, and equally ill-judged for Netflix to pick it up.

So while I don't think they were deliberately promoting child porn, I do think there should be strong consequences, to make it clear that there is and must always be "a line" when it comes to imagery of children, and film making practices that are exploitative of child actors.

There seems to be a general idea on social media from people who think it's all fine that, because the girls in the film were well treated and looked after on set and because they enjoyed making the film, the "can't have been" being exploited but that's just obviously not the case. That's not how child safeguarding works at all.