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[@5marcella5]

The director literally said he didn’t have to do much research on Mexican culture because he already knew what he needed to know. It is so utterly disrespectful for ALL Latin America. It’s a french man’s view on latinos. And the fact that most of the cast doesn’t even speak good enough Spanish is laughable. If this film steals the Oscar from I’m Still Here, we Brazilians will lose our sh*t hahah

[@Cisaraleitao]

4:06 Not a Spanish musical It’s a French movie (Except for the North American actors and actresses)

[@fcplop98]

This movie was met with a lot of controversy from critics and the general audience in Mexico because of how poorly done it was. This covered a topic that is very sensitive and personal to a lot of Mexicans and it was done in the most disrespectful and alienating way possible. Its like if some Germans made a movie about school gun violence in the US without doing any research. Emilia Perez went from being a Mexican man with native features, into a white woman with a Spaniard accent. The Spanish dialogue sounded like they google translated English phrases, and so much of it was bizarre and unwatchable. In an interview in Mexico, the French director had the audacity to say he made no research on the country because he said he already knew everything he needed to know. This was a movie from the point of view of a clueless French man who gives no shits about the country he is trying to portray and it is very obvious from watching this. There is already some amazing stories about transgender Mexican people out now, and we dont need this arrogant and unqualified Frenchman to tell their stories.

[@oscarmosh]

What are you talking about, ITS A MOVIE, a French one, the story is good, The music is good, as a Mexican, it's stupid that Mexicans get mad that the movie got "Mexico" wrong. When literally one of the most watched shows in Mexico is "La Rosa de Guadalupe". It's obviously made by foreign director with a foreign vision, and portraits a better story than most of the actual cinema in Mexico that tries to be similar to American movies. Like the whole "This is disrespectful" discourse is more about getting attention, pura pinche indignación chafa.

[@omaralmeraya7222]

Estoy de acuerdo, che peli culera.

[@5marcella5]

Can you IMAGINE if a Mexican director made a movie about Edith Piaf? French people would set all their cars on fire.

[@diamonddogez4270]

I just find the level of accolades to be quite annoying when there are trans filmmakers who made important and meaningful films this year like I Saw the TV Glow. The discourse reminds me of Crash 20 years ago during awards season.

[@theresahernandez2350]

It was not filmed in Mexico it was in france

[@BenFriedman916]

Fair clarification.

[@michelehamilton961]

@theresahernandez2350 I guess this was the 1st time a movie was not filmed where it was set. FYI many Kurbrick movies were filmed in England no matter where they are set.

[@BelBastos09]

Imagine if a Mexican director decides to make a movie about the USA with only Mexican cast playing US american characters, filmed it entirely in CDMX, and then the director says that they didn't find the need to research much about the USA because the already knew everything about it. AND! let's pretend the cast director says they couldn't find US actors good enough to play the parts so decided to go with mexicans and other latinos instead and the director says that they went to visit locations in the US but decided that the streets of the country they would like to portray were not ideal for making the film works, so they film everything in Polanco, Roma an Condesa. See????? Get it????

[@JeitoPrado]

The mass hysteria of the year and the wrath of the Gods! the fire in LA is the cinema gods reacting to this film winning so many awards... and OVER SO MANY GREAT FILMS!.. It´s an all over the place mess of a movie.. It´s experimentalism(with a good premisse! ruined) in its worst, arrogant way... Like "Let´s just put up some unconventional pseudo-smart inventive cinematic stuff (and will be a musical because we want and we get more nominations!), fuck Mexico, fuck spanish language, fuck real movies done in it´s own countries.. and we´re done!"" ..The only award it deserves is suporting actress..... but Netflix did buy it and make the biggest campaign ever so The award goes to.. Money.🤡

[@blairbrown4812]

"Wicked," is the typical musical movie. "West Side Story." A typical musical movie. Cats? Another typical musical movie. Memorable for all the wrong reasons... A musical about a cartel leader transitioning to womanhood, both to escape justice and the idea of what a typical macho cartel leader stereotype should be is *not* your typical musical movie. This is what makes Emilia Pérez so atypical--and by extension, audacious--to the minds of the typical Westerner/American moviegoers, myself included.

[@BenFriedman916]

I will give you that the format in which this film communicates these ideas is not typical. I thought the story itself was straightforward. Cartel member gets out of the life and tries to hide detection and live a peaceful life, only for their past to rear its head. The story felt predictable even if the mode of telling the story was unique.

[@carloscordero6695]

The aesthetic is atypical, but the movie itself is a chatgpt request for top most stereotypes of Mexico. The themes were not treated with respect, you try to redeem the irredeemable (a drug lord), and the script just sounds like it was translated from French to Spanish without any regard for the nuances of Spanish... and the whole Selena Gomez thing...

[@deliawolfe]

I don't know if it would have been possible for me to say anything about this film after just leaving the theater. It took days to allow the details to be absorbed into the entirety of the film. Then the characters, the music, the editing, the cinematography -- all having their impact. I suspect it was different for me as I saw it in a movie house -- where it should be seen and experienced. This is the kind of film with impact -- the films of the late 60s and early 70s. Films like BlowUp or Five Easy Pieces or The Wild Bunch. Anything by Kubrick Like 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, or Hitchcock's Notorious, or Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon. Pick a Greek Tragedy -- ANY Greek Tragedy -- or Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Richard III. LA LA Land, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Etc, Etc...Please take the time to step back and examine where this film resides in the context of 21th Century Film. Maybe until after the Oscars...

[@LuisSanchez-kr2gw]

You do talk a lot to make a point. And also I dont think its a good idea for someone like you to review a movie a minute later after you just watched it for the first time.

[@michelehamilton961]

Thanks for the Annette shout out. This film has good technicals but the story is all over the place. That said, some people screaming like this a the worst film of the year or purposely offensive are living in a bubble. There are people purposely misgendering the lead actress and starting a campaign that she is “stealing” a women’s award slot. There are people who will not even bother to watch this even if it were great. Can we concentrate on the fact there are real haters out there.

[@zemlidrakona2915]

Zoe Saldana was the lead no doubt. I liked the move but the nominations were reversed for political reasons.

[@kostantza1]

Neither deserves an Oscar tbh, or even a Golden Globe.They should give them some sort of Lgbt cinema award if they wanted to, though I'm sure I've seen better lgbt-themed movies this year.The acting in this movie is atrocious. Those two barely hold their head above the atrocious script, Saldana especially. But there are so many superior performances by actresses this year, including some (like Lily Rose Depp and Nicole Kidman) who weren't nominated at all.

[@zemlidrakona2915]

@@kostantza1 It's all subjective. I disliked Moonlight and I thought LA LA LAND was great, but they gave it to Moonlight. Why should I worry about that? I can still like LA LA LAND just the same. I don't understand why so many get upset about the Oscars. It doesn't really effect them.

[@kostantza1]

@@zemlidrakona2915 People do have a natural aversion to hypocrisy, especially when it's so blatant. When Oscars were first among equals, there was plausible deniability about their motivations. La La Land and Moonlight are still high production, well-acted, solidly directed movies. In the case of Emilia Perez, I'd say the fact that they don't even take the pains to keep up appearances is what rubs people the wrong way. As well as that it's an openly insulting movie, whereas Hollywood has been plastering itself as a beacon of progress 🤮.When they don't even take the pains to deceive you, you can tell they're absolutely contemptuous of you, the viewer. Has nothing to do with enjoying the actual movies or not.I won't stop considering Nosferatu the superior movie of the year just because they snubbed it,and even if it wasn't, I'd love it all the same.

[@zemlidrakona2915]

@ You just spouted a bunch of subjective statements to try to make a point. None of what you said is a fact, it's just your opinion, just like I have mine. Moonlight had very little story, but the worst part is the 3 versions of the main character did not seem to mesh at all. I much preferred Emilia Perez which had a real story. Also what collective "Hollywood" thinks or doesn't, has no bearing on the quality of the movie. You don't have to like it, but that should have nothing to do with whether someone else likes or dislikes it. That being said, I actually don't care if it wins or loses, but the amount of consternation it's generating is insane, especially since a lot of it is coming from people that didn't even see it. I'm assuming you saw it, right?

[@sugarraynay4153]

I thought it was phenomenal! It wasn’t a typical musical. It was moving and touching. Zoe musical part was awesome!!!

[@BenFriedman916]

Zoe is incredible in this role!!

[@lucaspettersen6935]

Do you know what a "Spanish musical is? ... It would be a Musical that comes from the country of Spain . The "film" is not satire or trying to be a sarcastic way of portraying things otherwise it would have mattered. It shows the corruption, the worshipping of non spectacular individuals just because of their fanbase. It's ugly, it's cartoonish .

[@JROTCBALL]

I really enjoyed this movie! I found the way they shot Mexico to be very beautiful when compared to Breaking Bad’s pee filter.. n I feel the director and his team were able to inject a very good level of melodrama into the the film that seemed right in tune with Mexican tastes.. not at all bad for a Frenchman

[@BenFriedman916]

Fair take! It’s definitely a uniquely interesting movie to look at

[@fcplop98]

Just because something is melodramatic doesn’t mean its Mexican. Theres so much cultural nuance you need to inform yourself with when doing a story from a different culture, and its obvious that no such care was taken in the making of this film.

[@omaralmeraya7222]

"Right in tune with mexican tastes" you have no idea what cultural apropiation is??? I am mexican and i dont know 1 single mexican that feels this pretencious movie respected the culture.

[@julianagomes9746]

​@@omaralmeraya7222 esse filme tem sido muito esclarecedor sobre como americanos progressistas também são uns cretinos. Nem se dão ao trabalho de ouvir as críticas. Não é sobre retratar a america latina de maneira negativa. É sobre usar nossos problemas sociais como plano de fundo de suas histórias Hollywoodianas. Quando querem um filme de férias de verão filmam no Havaí, quando querem um filme romântico filmam em Paris e quando querem um filme com violência urbana filmam na América latina como se fosse algo inerente a nossa cultura e estilo de vida e não algo ao qual sobrevivemos

[@Andre-qc9nb]

It wasn't shot in Mexico, it was shot in France...That's one of the things that pissed people off about this movie. The "fakeness" of it. It's a slap in the face to Latinos

[@michelehamilton961]

Thanks. So much virtues signaling, like there has to be/can be “perfect “ representation. I was not in love with this film but I don’t think it was made in bad faith. Sometimes we are can be like crabs in a barrel.

[@culturalresponse2447]

Is GLAAD a keyboard warrior? Because they said this movie is REGRESSIVE!

[@BenFriedman916]

To be clear, and I hope I made it clear in my video that I believe there are legitimate criticisms of this movie and specifically from members of the community reviewing the film. And I encouraged people to seek those reviews out.

[@michelehamilton961]

@culturalresponse2447 I don’t think he said everyone who criticizes the film was wrong. I think he is saying some people are not able see the film as a film and are expecting perfect portrayals and representation which a lot to put on one movie. Will keep artists from even trying to do anything different.

[@martham5806]

Selena Gomez has a lot of followers and she also has a lot of haters, mostly by her ex and his wife’s fans, they would go as far as leaving bad reviews, even if they didn’t bother to watch the movie.

[@BenFriedman916]

I didn’t know that, I just follow her because of Wizards of Waverly Place lol

[@culturalresponse2447]

OH PLEASE! Lmao. You Selena Gomez fans (which you are one)… always claim her backlash is caused by the Bieber’s and their fans. Enough

[@culturalresponse2447]

Is GLAAD who just gave the movie a horrible review .. paid by the Bieber’s? The Bieber’s fans?

[@sugarraynay4153]

@@culturalresponse2447so sensitive 🤣😂

[@Nora-ih5yu]

The Biebers and fans have the Diddy issues to answer for everything will be coming out soon.js

[@talisha5863]

The movie was wonderful👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Zoe Saldana killed it🏆🌺

[@BenFriedman916]

Zoe is and has always been a wonderful actress. She is mesmerizing in Emilia Perez. The opening act and the scene with her in the red suit are wonderful testimony to her incredible screen presence!

[@user-if4ux9io8q]

I loved it. I’m hoping for three Oscar noms. Not groundbreaking in any way? Are you serious?

[@BenFriedman916]

I should have done a better job clarifying my point. As I meant to say it, I believe the story beats are cliched (drug lord goes into hiding to escape their past life only to be brought back into it due to their hubris etc etc). That is not to diminish what is groundbreaking in this film, which is the lead performance giving by Karla Sofia Gascon who is great in this film.

[@kenenikebeds9232]

😂😂

[@cutetattooedgirl5322]

I thought it was a wonderful.movie...dont know what yoire takking about.....😂😂😂😂😂 oscar worthy n she will get that oscar

[@BenFriedman916]

I’m not positive to what you are referring to, as I gave the film a positive review (with some reservations) and also said the 3 performers should be in consideration.

[@cutetattooedgirl5322]

@BenFriedman916 your title through me off ...I honestly thought the movie was great 👍 👌