It would take literally nothing away from this film to show the opening shower scene without full frontal nudity of characters who are supposed to be teenagers. The pedophilic gaze in so much of cinema is ignored by almost every critic, so ingrained in our media is this idea that it's okay to sexualize young women. This is not to say that teenagers themselves should be ignorant of or never understand themselves sexually, nor that no media should acknowledge teenage sexuality. It's to say that there is a way to show it that doesn't pander to a male and/or pedophilic gaze.
This film does avoid that after those opening moments, but that only proves how unnecessary they were. The cruelty…