What Jerry fails to grasp is the cinematography of the scene, which is deliberately rendered in such a way as to make the scene seem 'Romantic' and not as he puts it 'Horrific' at all. The lighting is gentle, the dialogue exchanges between the child and the man are adult (absolutely demented and ridiculous, BTW, as though such a dialogue would ever occur in such a context). The movements are slow, and most glaringly obvious, there is understanding between the child as to what is about to occur....in other words, this scene heavily implies consent--and that such a thing is in fact possible.
The child initiates oral sex on the adult man. The director has deliberately romanticized child abuse and has attempted to make it sultry.
The director has essentially made soft kiddy porn under the moral guise of making a film about the 'horrors of child abuse', and what makes this screamingly obvious is the utter lack of sexual violence that characterises that crime. A relative of mine is a social worker who deals with very violent cases of kids who are the victims of sexual and physical abuse, they are too bad to be adopted out and have to be housed in custom-made facilities. Both the aforementioned invariably go hand-in-hand. From talking to him it rarely has anything much to do with sexual drive at all. It's about power and so, so much darker than that. Films like this DO NOT accurately portray how that nightmare really plays out. Most of the kids who are affected by it are destroyed psychologically forever, and my relative has told me more than once that often he's just 'Babysitting these kids until they're old enough to go to jail'.
This is a fantasy piece, not an exposé. The trend was set with Cuties, the envelope is being pushed and here we are.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9196192/
We've come a long way since TOOL's film clip for their song Prison Sex, which deals with child sexual abuse in an artful way, caused a moral panic with critics and the public. Now the critics and Jerrys of the world defend open-sewage pederasty and call it moral service. I’m posting this to show that yes, cinematography or in this case animation can be used to portray topics like this without smacking people in the face with blatant fetishized paedophilia.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPV4OfNlt0