Can someone explain to me kindly why Emilia Pérez is so acclaimed?
I am genuinely trying to understand what people see in this movie. It is not a bad movie. I have a 7 popcorn rating system and I gave this movie a 4 (really a 3.5), but people talk about this movie as it is at least a 6 and sometimes even a 7.
I do not understand how it won the jury prize at Cannes or why it has received so many more nominations in other awards, and as a Latino woman I am starting to believe that yes; a big part of why has to do with the truth that no one really understands Latinos, starting with a French non-Spanish speaking director.
The issues with the film go beyond Selena Gomez’ Spanish accent. My Mexican friends cannot find themselves in this movie or in the extras in this movies. They have even gone to the point of saying “I wish I could tell you there were that many black people in Mexico, but there aren’t. It’s not realistic.”
And then you get to the point of the redeemable factor of making the trans character somewhat relatable. This actress is great, truly, but we empathize with her struggle but then are supposed to feel okay with the fact that she has now taken the flag of the Mexican feminist fight for disappeared VICTIMS of DRUG DEALERS when who she used to be was a drug dealer? Isn’t this tone deaf at best? But offensive at worst? Not only to Mexican feminists but also to trans women…
The music itself, because this had to be a musical, is so cheap and futile. Everything has to be a song here, almost the act of serving yourself a glass of water is a song. But for real, “vagina to penis, penis to vagina.” Is this not pejorative? Diminutive of the experience?
Who is this movie for? What is the message? What is the point of the movie? Does it even matter? Or is the point that this is “unlike anything you’ve seen before” and we are just so happy to be watching something so wild…
If so, count me out— as a Latino who, sorry to bring up politics randomly, sees myself once again, fully unrepresented by a wide audience that gets to speak about my experience or the experience of people that share a cultural connection with/have some relation to me
Please be kind
I am genuinely trying to understand what people see in this movie. It is not a bad movie. I have a 7 popcorn rating system and I gave this movie a 4 (really a 3.5), but people talk about this movie as it is at least a 6 and sometimes even a 7.
I do not understand how it won the jury prize at Cannes or why it has received so many more nominations in other awards, and as a Latino woman I am starting to believe that yes; a big part of why has to do with the truth that no one really understands Latinos, starting with a French non-Spanish speaking director.
The issues with the film go beyond Selena Gomez’ Spanish accent. My Mexican friends cannot find themselves in this movie or in the extras in this movies. They have even gone to the point of saying “I wish I could tell you there were that many black people in Mexico, but there aren’t. It’s not realistic.”
And then you get to the point of the redeemable factor of making the trans character somewhat relatable. This actress is great, truly, but we empathize with her struggle but then are supposed to feel okay with the fact that she has now taken the flag of the Mexican feminist fight for disappeared VICTIMS of DRUG DEALERS when who she used to be was a drug dealer? Isn’t this tone deaf at best? But offensive at worst? Not only to Mexican feminists but also to trans women…
The music itself, because this had to be a musical, is so cheap and futile. Everything has to be a song here, almost the act of serving yourself a glass of water is a song. But for real, “vagina to penis, penis to vagina.” Is this not pejorative? Diminutive of the experience?
Who is this movie for? What is the message? What is the point of the movie? Does it even matter? Or is the point that this is “unlike anything you’ve seen before” and we are just so happy to be watching something so wild…
If so, count me out— as a Latino who, sorry to bring up politics randomly, sees myself once again, fully unrepresented by a wide audience that gets to speak about my experience or the experience of people that share a cultural connection with/have some relation to me
Please be kind