Emilia Perez - A Bizarre and Ignorant Film: Review and Deep Dive
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In today's video, we're looking at Oscar Best Picture Favorite "Emilia Perez," starring Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, and Karla Sofía Gascón. A story about a cartel kingpin transitioning and becoming a woman, written and directly by a French man who doesn't even speak Spanish and openly admitted he barely did any research. What could possibly go wrong? Despite numerous recent controversies, the film took home a Golden Globe, the Jury Prize at Cannes, and a whopping 13 Oscar Nominations. So the film must be good, right? No. No it is not. And I suffered through it for this review and deep dive.
All clips belong to Emilia Perez and are being used in accordance with Fair Use for the purpose of transformative criticism. It can currently be watched on Netflix.
Works Referenced (other analysis as well)
glaad.org/emil... (very helpful megalink)
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JOHANNE SACREBLU: (emilia perez parody) • JOHANNE SACREBLU "el m...
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thirding! pat, you can do better!
Scent bird is run by a dangerous cult leader that horrible bigoted and stans Hltter! What are you doing?!
Yeah this ain't it
I saw one comment that said something like: "This movie is like saying 'Bonjour' to an Italian waiter at a Chinese restaurant in Scotland."
I read a comment that said that Selina Gomez's spanish is as good as Brad Pitt's italian in Inglorious Basterds. 😂
@@tumppuman😂😂
😂😂😂
That's amazing
@@tumppuman Selena Gorlómez
As a mexican this is worst insult from France to My country since their invasion in 1861.
as if making gringos obsessed with 5 de Mayo and believe that was the mexican independence wasn't enough 😭😭😭
Damnnn!!!!
@@love1513They do give a fuck when your independence day even is?
As a french I agree with you and I'm sorry...
I'm from Brasil and as a Latino I totally understand you and I'm really fkn pissed.
Imagine a terrible movie musical made by Russians, with French and German actors speaking bad English, filmed in China, about US American school shooters being redeemed.
That's what this movie feels like for Latin Americans.
🎯 on point.
That movie needs to be made!
that film would be very funny
What most people seem to miss is that the french are as "latin" as any spanish speaker. Both are romance languages derived from latin. Does this mean the director is a latin french? latin european? Why would people from the american continent add a prefix given by the U.S. whites? "afro/asian/latin... " even the natives are labeled as native american! Oh but the caucasians don't say they're european american, they're just "american" because the U.S. doesn't have a real name. Do people realize this racism and xenophobia?
@@PigeoneerToy yes, black people have been saying this forever. Several famous "African american" leaders have been quoted pointing this out. White people giving themselves the name "White" want to see themselves as the "default" American and human being overall.
There's actually a parody of this film called "Jean Sacrebleu" that became so popular that is going to have an official theater release here in Mexico.
Really hoping it gets a huge cult following
Is it good?
He says it the video. Please at least watch the video.
@@angela_merkeIHey, so yeah... chill.
@@johndawn6951 My comment doesn't indicate anything concerning my emotional state while writing it.
As someone who has a trans sister, this film left a really sour taste in my mouth. The idea of transitioning as a way to run away from past problems rather than the idea of making one’s body match their internal self is just asinine. I’m just so disappointed that we didn’t get a movie about the real hardships of coming out as trans, especially in this climate. Just a sorry excuse for representation
Just speaking for myself, but i never viewed the film as something that was intended for the real hardships of trans representation. She wanted to transition because she is a woman so she went through with it. We dont see her experience or her going through the motions and i kind of liked it for that, especially since theres already so much happening in the movie. I personally wanna see more films where our characters are part of the lgbtq+ community without having to see their whole origin of how that affected them and how hard it was. I wanna see more films where lgbt+ characters have other things going on and their identity, isnt forgotten, but just not what keeps the movie going. I haven’t seen Anora yet but ive seen some people complain about…
SPOILER?? Kinda not really
…how they didnt get much of Anoras backstory or why she doesnt like being called Anora and instead prefers Ani. I like that kind of stuff and like seeing more of it in lgbtq+ films. A great movie about the hardships of the trans experience is definitely Jane Schoebruns I Saw the T.V Glow or hell even Matrix and Ghost In The Shell is you want some action. I personally loved the movie 🫣 and im a gay Mexican American not that it’s supposed to defend or negate the negatives people have but just so people know who wrote this essay of a reply lol.
@ I think my biggest problem for me was that the transition in this movie didn’t appear, to me at least, to be an action of genuine self reflection, rather an attempt to escape the past. I can see what you mean about there being a lot going on in this one, but I would have been happy to forsake most of that in favor of the movie giving more focus on Emilia’s disconnection between her body and who she is inside.
@@nicholasharshbarger4454 I definitely understand what you mean. I think it all boils downs to everyone’s personal taste and that’s good! To me I liked how she thought her becoming who she truly wants to be would just solve all her problems and absolve her of her crimes and atrocities with just a snap of a surgery and transition. However her impact as a drug lord had MASSIVE negative effects on people, caused by Her and a transition to your true self doesn’t save her from the horrendous acts of violence she committed. So to me seeing her transition so quickly and us not lingering on it and sitting with her through the experience shows us her way of thinking and viewing life. Emilia believing that anything can be solved so quickly whether it be using violence to rid of your enemies, giving you “ex” family loads of money to live in a new country “happily” and expect no consequences of those quick “solutions”. In actuality there were consequences, many families lost loved ones through drug wars and even her own family experienced an emotional rollercoaster through her initial “death” and being isolated in a whole new country with zero relatives.
@@nicholasharshbarger4454 sorry for the yappachino btw :p
@@herclocker9965I’m so happy you liked a movie that mocks the suffering of the families of the disappeared and trans women’s experience. Yay, you.
an “authentic” Mexican trans story written by a cis french director with no connection to Mexico who doesn’t speak Spanish and filmed entirely in Europe..
for an american audience 😭
As someone not from the USA, your comment kind of explains OPs.@@livpaige1997
The authenticity is through the roof
It's a 7 layer dip that went bad 👎
Cis? Really?
Super glad my doctor didn't do a whole musical number before my top surgery lmfao
Really? I did appreciate my psychiatrist doing a lounge number before signing off on my meds.
Honestly my surgeon was so hyped he could have and it would have actually been really good and not transphobic.
That's only because you don't know how good hospital musicals can be. Seriously, watch the musical episode of "Scrubs"- it is a highlight of the show, and I wish my hospital stay had been that well choreographed...
You might not realise this but, the reason they put patients under anaesthesia is so that they can't see or hear the musical dance number that is necessary for surgery.
Nice bro, you got yourself some nice knockers or what 🤙
This movie made me feel like it was made by an alien whose only knowledge about Mexico, trans people and musicals was from reading the wikipedia blurb for each of them, and I'm not surprised there was actually less research done than even that
It feels more like it was made by someone who had been told there was a wikipedia article on these subjects and hadn't even bothered to read that
The fact france would submit this, as opposed to the latest count of monte cristo adaptation, is a travesty.
On the bright side, they have Coralie Fargeat competing with The Substance.
We have a history with fumbling our submissions to the oscars. We didn't submit Portrait of a Lady on Fire or Anatomy of a Fall so... Disappointed but not surprised
A straight up hate crime
Trust me, as a French person, none of us understand this movie, we are known for insane cinema and they shove this shit for the Oscars? Bye
As an Italian (so we get most of the French productions released), you guys make amazing movies, at the point that if an Italian movie is good it's commented with "it looks French". Worry not, people will remember the good movies and this will be hopefully go into oblivion
I'm from Thailand, and the entire Emilia Perez circus reminds me a lot of "The King and I" - the movie that was extremely celebrated in the West but totally insulted Thai culture and history to the most gruesome level. It misrepresented everything about our culture while celebrating this white savior as someone who brought "civilization" to our country. The movie is technically banned in Thailand, but students were encouraged to watch it in College, so we are more disillusioned about the West and their supremacy. Since then, many other medias were made as a contradiction to this movie to showcase what Thai culture is really like.
For anyone interested:
The King in the movie "Rama IV" historically named the father of science for his achievement in astronomy - was made to be a clown who believed in the world is flat in the movie. Thai women in the movie were made airheads with no brain and flaunted their behind in front of public. Only this missionary lady - the "I" in the movie - was a proper and smart lady whom the King fell in love with and she brought civilization to the nation.
Also, wasn't 'The King' played by Yul Brynner, a definitely 'not Thai' actor?
The whole, “you smell like papa” is also wrong as hormones change your scent. While Emilia could be using the same body wash, body spray or fabric detergent as they did pre-transition, and their kid is really associating their scent with those artificial ones (which doesn’t seem to be the implication) it makes the song not only weird with everything you mentioned but just inherently false. It would have been way more realistic to say they recognized their eyes or the way they smiled at them or a distinct mannerism or action that had meaning to the child.
The movie did not mention any hair products or mannerisms. It would have made sense to use either of them, but it didn't.
I really see wasted potential. I feel like with the exact same premise you could write either a sharply funny comedy with the absurdity of the premise, or a really thoughtful drama thriller about the struggle of transitioning at a later age in a place and a job that demands masculinity from you, and somehow they ended up with this?
Rocky Horror Picture Show was the great father of this film., just an awful musical mess!
There was no potential from this.
I believe the main character is a drug trafficker. You know, someone who's hurt people, engaged in sexual assault, murder of innocents, someone who has corrupted Mexico more than it was, causing damage that will be felt generations into the future.
He's like one of the people who blew up the twin towers.
You can't make a musical about Osama Bin Laden or Hitler and say "Yeah, this had potential".
Maybe if they've changed Emilia Pérez into a minor camel or something, that is hunted by her experiences and runs away or stuff.
I feel like taika waititi could've done amazing things with this premise
if they got actual trans people in on this and made it a campy absurdist comedy we couldve had a goldmine with this concept
@@johnrickling5562 Don't you dare compare this travesty to Rocky Horror
Emilia Perez is the Emily in Paris for movies
omg they are also homophones of each other what the hell??
@ they are also both made by Netflix and somehow got nominated for prestigious rewards
Also what big bang theory is to scientists
Emilia Perez is like 20x worse than Emily in Paris
Emilia in Perez
I went from never hearing about Emilia Perez before to hearing how much it fucking sucks once the Oscar noms came in. It really sounds like this year's Crash, a woefully tone deaf movie trying to tackle issues the creators apparently know nothing about, but gets praise from critics who equally know nothing about the topic but think it's being "bold" for them.
it's the algorithm. everyone is cashing in cuz it's the in thing to hate right now. not that it's unwarranted, it doesn't look great. but I seriously doubt most people who are watching these vids have even seen it. what makes it extra hilarious is that now the algorithm has told everyone its bad they're going back to youtubers who didn't give it negative reviews when it first came out to tell them they're bad people lol
What was Crash about?
I don't remember that.
@@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ It's basically "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from Avenue Q in movie form but edgy with mostly shit acting. There are some good performances, in fairness, but they don't save the movie because it's that egregious and tone-deaf. The fact it won over Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, and Munich is one of the Oscars' biggest missteps. However you feel about those movies, they were all better than goddamn Crash. Edit: Oh, and it makes a sexually predatory cop a hero that saves one of his previous victims. They even use a photo of that scene for a lot of their posters, covers, etc.
So they basically think transitioning is the same as using a Pay n Spray in GTA?
This is a magnificent analogy 😂
Why didn't Dutch Van Der Linde think of that? 😂
You've just hit on a billion dollar idea.
she got rid of all her wanted stars so quickly
That stupid smell thing makes even less sense when you consider HRT actually changes how you smell. Her sweat would literally be different!!!
The problem is that to know that fact you have to spend more than 15 minutes researching the subject and the director didn't need to learn anything new. He already know everything he needs to know
does she do hrt in the movie? i thought they presented the surgery as the entirety of her transition, which would be another way in which it completely fails to be anything but a transphobic and racist caricature.
@@firelordoregano5632 If they removed the testes they have no choice with that really.
@ i know that stops testosterone production, but that's not the same thing as actively taking estrogen, which is a years long process
@@firelordoregano5632 They actually did say that she was on HRT for 2 years before the movie starts. Probably the *one* thing they got right. Unfortunately, *they show this by having her flash her breasts to Zoe Saldana* (who reacts with a cartoon eye-bulging facial expression). And she still doesn't socially transition at all until her bottom surgery, despite being on HRT. And she needs to hire Zoe Saldana to help her book and get surgery including doing the most basic research about "what 'sex change operations' are" but was able to get HRT just fine on her own.
The fact people pronounce it Emilia Peréz when it's written Emilia Pérez, BASED ON THE WAY PEOPLE SAY IT ON THE MOVIE ITSELF is insane for me.
totalmente
I think they don't understand this type of accent because they don't exist in english
@@vitoriacastro2518 it's willful ignorance, I've explained it to many Americans and they still refuse to pronounce it correctly
Igual o tal do Zoe Saldana ao invés de Saldaña (Saldanha). Impressionante o grau de afetação de estadunidense falando qualquer nome que não seja "nativo".
Im not sure if the director was actually interested in representing the trans experience (my guess would have to be no) but one of the main reasons I think this movie failed at representation is because it really feels like Emilia Perez was a disguise the main character used to hide from Jessi/run from her past rather than the true expression of her identity. Really it just furthers the stereotype that trans people are inherently deceptive when it really should be doing the complete opposite.
In the book that this was loosely based on, Emilia Perez was a disguise that the cartel leader used to get away from other cartel members that wanted to murder them. The movie rewrote it so that they were actually a trans woman.
Not "really feels like." Is
The funniest thing about Selena's character wanting to move and take the children, is that in one part of the movie they said that they currently live in "La Condesa" and she wants to take the children to "La Roma" if they only investigated or had consulted with someone Mexican they would realize that those two places are 8 minutes away. It doesn't make sense for Emilia to get angry, her children would be 8 minutes away…
It honestly feels homophobic that Challengers didn't get nominated for editing and score
The fact that "Challenger" or "Nosferatu" are not in the Oscar, but this SHIT is... Really upset me
Don't mention that freaky vampire, its not worth anything too. Definitely better than this but not near a nomination either
A Mexican trans woman made a spoof of Emilia Perez called Johannes Sacreblu. It’s on UA-cam, but having past 1 million views, it will now be shown in theaters. It’s hilarious, but in Spanish and some bad French
The fact that both this movie and The Brutalist used AI to "tweak" things is, quite frankly, infuriating and should be an instant disqualifier for either of them to receive ANY awards or accolades.
"But it's just a little AI not the whole thing" Yes, and if I discover just a little dog shit in food I ordered I'm not eating around it either.
Didn’t they clarify that they didn’t use AI?
I mean it depends on what the AI was used for
@ There's no excuse for using the planet burning plagiarism engine for anything.
@@ShinGallon Again, depends on what AI was used and what it was used for. Not all AI is plagiarism. Word suggestions on your phone keyboard are AI. Self-driving cars use AI. People need to stop equating AI to generative, plagiarizing AI.
It's entirely possible that the AI "tweaks" you're talking about were indeed bad uses of AI, but AI use does not automatically equal bad.
That's not a good analogy though. You're saying that as if the small usage of AI in The Brutalist suddenly makes the movie unwatchable. In fact, most of us wouldn't even have noticed the AI if the crew didn't talk about using it.
I was really under the impression that doctor musical number was a snl kit
This is by far the best analysis of this so called "movie", because it speaks about the issue of making a musical about the issue of mass dissapearing of people in México, and how Manitas is transformed into a hero, actually a saint by transitioning to Emilia even when she used the drug money to fund her organization and she keep being violent towards her former wife.
Yes
why did they go "hmm, so transphobia is thinking transitioning is evil... then to be progressive, transitioning must be inherently morally good and righteous!!" like... no, trans people want transitioning to be normal. transitioning doesn't make a bad person suddenly absolved.
Another VERY SMALL thing I hate about the Transition song: the doctor asks her “man to woman, or woman to man?”
And the lady responds
“Man to woman”
And yet he stills asks her “is it for you?”
Like dude, even if you just didn’t want to assume what bits she had- if she herself was already trans she wouldn’t be walking in to ask the broadest possible questions.
But they *had* to insert a joke about what an insult it is for a cis woman to be possibly thought to be trans! That's why this movie is such great trans representation! /s
And a cis woman still wouldn't FLY TO BANGKOK just to ask a surgeon the broadest possible questions! Nor would a trans woman need to HIRE A LAWYER just to ask the broadest possible questions! This scene is where I ragequit.
@@pseudonymous9153 It's like watching a snake eating its own tail!🤪
@@keyboarddancers7751 What is?
i just feel like people are gonna use this film being shit as an excuse for their own bigotry
You feel that way because it's true.
yeah it will, add tgat to the list of tgis movies crimes
Of course they will, but who cares? People use anything they can find to be bigots. Clips from the news, Twitter, etc.
@@earnthis1 yeah it has nothing to do with trans people, this movie is just not good. Bigots can go to hell.
Given that people literally seem to change political ideologies based on the fact that a lot of media sucks now, even though that’s not the left’s fault, I can see how you would come to this conclusion 100%.
Their giving an award to a a film that compares a Mexican woman's smell to guacamole? God damn.
This is a bit disengenous. That part was during a song of a child recognising the smell of the father and saying all the things that smell reminded them of. In the list with guacamole was also: cigars, dogs, pubbles, gasoline, and many others. Separating the guacamole from the dozens of other smells just makes this comment seem like it is saying half truth for likes.
And don't get me wrong, the song is terrible and the movie is weird, but framing it as the movie where women smell is compared to guacamole is just disengenous.
@@BertockLegman this movie stinks, and no deserv nothing
When I see a movie like that I honestly try to understand: who was it made for? It’s definitely not good for conservatives, who are scared of the word “trans”, it’s not good for anyone who met at least one trans person or even questioned themselves what transition is, so for who it is??
As a professional opera singer (and a human being with functioning ears) I struggled listening to a lot of “musical numbers”, cause a lot of them were voluntarily off pitch and just not pleasant or interesting, so I don’t get the point of that either
And also can we (as humanity) please stop doing films about all sort of criminals? It feels like between true crimes and fictions we are starting to give a bit of too much attention to a topic, making it look somewhat “attractive”
This is made for those on Hollywood who are conservatives and ignorant about other people’s cultures (be it the lgbtq community or mexican culture in this case) but not *too* conservative as to embrace the title. They adore this movie because they can praise it and say “see how progressive we are? We love Emilia Pérez, there’s no way we’re prejudiced ❤” and not making any work on really representing the minorities.
For people who watch Vaush
Real conservatives are so far away from any media that even pertains to this that they have no opinion to say about it.
The kind of people that say that a man dismantling a half rotten ramp on his own property is ableism. They speak for other groups because they assume the group isn't capable of doing that themselves.
30:56 there are no desert near Mexico City, the nearest desertic area is about 3 or 4 hours and it’s a small, rare area in a different state
As a French film critic living in Mexico said, the director really fought the urge of use the orange filter 😅
I hope it loses all awards and after the oscars is over everyone just forgets this movie ever existed
Kinda like Chicago! lolol
@@earnthis1Chicago? It won best picture and is considered one of the best movie musicals
Ah, the Oscar villain. Well... I'm rooting for either the Substance or I'm Still Here for the best picture award!
The Substance is a horror picture, so an award is unlikely, no matter how good it might be. I'm Still Here sounds like a contender just judging from the title.
I'd be ecstatic if I'm still here won for best picture, even tho I think it's very unlikely. I will be already happy if the movie wins for best International feature or best actress with Fernanda Torres
I would really love Fernanda to win, but if she loses to Demi I won't be mad.
@maryuale same
I can't believe Emilia Pérez, Conclave, A Complete Unknown, and The Brutalist are nominated for best picture while the far superior movies The Wild Robot, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and Flow are shoved aside to the best animated category.
Also, the cheeky monkey movie was way better and a lot more fun to watch than that Dylan-snorefest, so why didn't that one get nominated instead? Oh wait, I remember: 'Murica hates Robbie.😕
I do want to point out the Eugenio Derbez is NOT a minor celebrity. He may not be as popular in the states but he is a household name in Mexico.
he had already cemented himself as a gigantic comedian, voice actor and celebrity in all of Latin America before Selena Gomez was a sperm
I get that Hollywood loves to grandstand and pander on some certain social issues but when both trans and Mexican communities tell you that something that is supposed to represent them is actually deeply insulting, you should believe them! There is already way more hate towards Emilia Perez than there ever was towards Crash (2004). Hollywood has nothing to gain by awarding Emilia Perez. The backlash will be universal if it wins best picture.
I love many of Jacques Audiard's movies but in this he wrong and is acting very arrogantly.
Also, maybe they should have found an actual Mexican film or a film from an actual trans creator? Like I get having a trans person in the film is something, but the performers don't write the script.
0:25 and brazilians, brazilians are mad too
We weren't really mad until Karla Gascon decided to associate hate she was getting with Fernanda Torres' team. She really poked the bear now.
As a French, I sincerely apologize for Jacques Audiard. His dad made great movies, but...
Our humorists, cinema guys, music boys, are almost always predators. "La culture du v*ol à la française" ("French r*pe culture) is a huge issue.
I'm a feminist, intersectional, marxist and more and more anarchist. I'm in the field since 15 years and it's so sickening to see the boy's club perform their odd little dance about "we can't say anything now" or don't even know what is trans or queerness...but hey let's make a movie about it!
It's partially cultural (I'm absolutely not surprised) and I'm very ashamed, even if I don't watch these movies.
Sorry for that ❤
Don't forget the preachers at church who abuse kids all the time...And I don't just mean the catholics. Look in the news, every day a protestant minister is arrested for abusing kids.
I wish we could stop this trend of apologizing for other countrymen's mistakes. Everyone has their fair share of idiots and ass-holes. It's not the good guys' shame to bear.
You’re really one of the good ones :)
A ton of those predators in the french arts and letters were also marxists,anarchists and associated anti-establishmentarians, so idk what you're trying to prove here. Just say this movie doesn't represent you.
Un camarade est un camarade! 🇲🇽🇫🇷
13:48
Nose jobs can be part of Gender affirming care. I had facial feminization surgery, and as part of that my nose was adjusted. It was actually one of the biggest changes in my face, and I'm so glad it was deemed essential and not cosmetic.
The video is great, the movie is trash, but just wanted to make a quick note on Gender Affirming Care.
phew! I was looking for a comment like this because I'm at that part of the video and was a little worried/confused when Pat said all that. Especially since I'm a trans person and as far as I can tell, within the trans community we acknowledge that cosmetic surgery is a type of gender affirming care in general- but specifically when we're speaking to transphobic cis people and trying to use an example that applies to them (that and cis people also get HRT) so I was a little surprised cause I guess I was under the assumption we were all on the same page about that one 😭
@@static4948 Absolutely, and many so called "Cosmetic" surgeries are absolute medical necessity. A butt job would be HUGE affirmation for a lot of womens genders who didn't get the results they were hoping for out of HRT, and we shouldn't begrudge that of them. Wider hips, larger chest, many of the things a lot of us hope for and don't get out of medication should be considered necessary and as part of gender affirming care.
Oh great the first transwoman nominated for an academy award is a kaitlyn jenner 🙄
It's not actually. Is pretending to think two people look alike and you got mixed up a hilarious joke of yours? lolol cringe
@earnthis1 its not about looks i said that because they are both raging bigots
@earnthis1 Its a comment about them both being massive bigots not about their looks
@@earnthis1Yeah, it was not bigotry here, she is the one talking shit about Muslins, blacks, asians, now latinos…
It makes sense in a way
Yay time to watch Pat talk about something I haven't watched!
He's doing the dirty work for the people
Well, I sure as heck ain't ever going to watch these films.
Im definitely not gonna watch this movie legally cuz the actress literally just started a dirty campaign with netflix to try and destroy Fernanda Torres chances of winning, but after it comes out ilegally im gonna watch it to be able to talk shit about it more accurately
This movie just proves that these awards arent based of merit or skill or being good. Its about money. Why win an award based off actual skill when you can just buy it
God, talk about being chronically online. I talked with a queer hairdresser today, and he had no idea WTF I was talking about when I brought up EP. He's not the first. One of my biggest "Maybe I /do/ need to touch grass after all" moments in a while. Edit: Whoever said this is the Crash (2004) of this generation was right.
It's not exclusively an internet thing at all; it's pop culture. This is an Oscar-nominated film (for some reason), not just some meme or something.
@ I know, I was mostly kidding. It's true that nobody in my life knew WTF I was talking about when I brought EP up, though. Maybe now they do because MSM is finally covering the controversies.
This seems like when Crash won everything and a while later everyone woke up and realized it was terrible.
At least I understood Crash, sophomoric as it was. "White liberals write about racism". This is next-level. While the optics of a racist cop "not being all bad" by saving a black woman are horrid, the surgery song in Perez is blatantly offensive. As is the Mexican cartel stuff.
If the point was to insult as many groups as possible in one film, Oscar-worthy!
It's crazy that Netflix picked this up and everyone was just like, "yep, nothing questionable here."
This is insulting to literally EVERYONE
dude scent birds ceo is weird- please don't do sponsorships with them
Yea indeed. Very problematic. I’m starting to not watch any channels with problematic sponsors.
There's so much irony in this video.
Pat complains about the movie industry doing things that suck, then proceeds to shill a sponsorship that sucks (one of the things ruining online content creation as an industry) AND THEN goes on to complain the director didn't do research which led to insensitivity- but did Pat do any research on Scentbird?
Doubtful.
@juleintheruff thats a really good point
2:19 amazingly, you’re able to bring awareness to these tweets without immediate silencing. Jessie Gender got hit with a Netflix issue when she tried to release a more updated version of her work on this film.
7:37 MINOR CELEBRITY thats insane bro
Fr. It took me out the video. The guy is a legend.
That and Zoé being raised in the US (when she was raised in the DR as well for a MAJOR amount of time) took me out 🫣 I love Pat but this could've been more looked into
27:04 you know what is funny? They live in Las Lomas and she will take the kids to Polanco. Las Lomas and Polanco are 15 minutes away by car, they are in the same city.
You don’t watch Emilia Perez, you survive it
Exactly 😂
Latin America came together to hate on this movie.. that's all that it has going for it. I watched it without knowing a thing about it, just chose randomly and I couldn't finish it.
24:55 Jessie Gender pointed out in her critique that one of the things that generally happens through HRT is that your scent actually changes. So the film actually fails here by reinforcing a narrative that you can't fundamentally change your body.
this movie was specifically engineered to piss me off specifically: a racist Frenchman's attempt at highbrow mexican representation, a truly awful movie musical, the worst trans representation since pretty little liars, pure oscar grubbing green book trash that wants all of the acclaim without representation of anything remotely real. if it wins a single little gold man the academtly should be dissolved and investigated and im only being a little hyperbolic
THE MAN TO WOMAN SONG IS REAL?!?! I THOUGHT THAT WAS A MEME WTF
wow, another movie nomnially about a trans woman protagonist which yet again turns out to focus primarily on the cis perspectives in it and portraying the trans person as a selfish manipulator who puts her personal wishes before anyone else's. its like the Danish Girl but more racist
Are we sure this isnt a conservative industry plant??
I remember watching that Transitioning Surgery song on Twitter thinking it’d be the worst song of the film.
After watching the movie for Oscar season it is somehow not even the worst song in the movie.
it's quite something, isn't it?
2:32 I can’t even say it’s “relatively unique”. Someone in a gang or gang-adjacent transitioning from a man to a woman is not a new concept. There was an anime the 1980’s that had a similar concept, and the 80’s weren’t exactly last year.
To heavily paraphrase a much better movie: This is the best picture nominee we deserve, not the best picture nominee we need.
I can’t be the only one who hadnt even heard of this movie until it was nominated for Oscars
I just dont understand how this got so many nominations. Are rich people really that ignorant and stupid?
That “talk-singing” is known in opera as recit or recitative music- and it was executed TERRIBLY here, as was the rest of the composition.
The irony that the show (Squid Game) with a cis man playing a trans woman has more respect than a movie with a trans woman actress (Emilia Perez).
21:12 she sing “eres Bienvenida” but it would make more sense if she would sang “De nada”
Welcome/you are welcome
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I saw the movie without knowing anything about it but the title and that it had been nominated for some awards. What a disaster. I just learned today that the screenplay was adapted from one excerpted chapter of a book, a story fragment about a drug lord who fakes a "sex change" in order to disappear underground and remain untraceable. So, that's why the movie has no interest in anything having to do with trans people. There aren't any such characters in the movie, only criminal frauds acting badly. Its view of its characters is as superficial as its phony, flavorless Paris soundstage version of Mexico -- a place where all the queso is Velveeta.
Giving Emilia Perez for Best Picture = Oscars Committing Suicide
i heard it was bad, but daaaaaamn... those clips should be registered cringe weapons.
tbh I'm not gonna get over the fact that Emilia Pérez won the Golden Globe for Best Musical over Wicked
Emilia Pérez could have actually been good if she had more research and not a gross personality change. I disagree with you about Wicked, it's a musical that many people like, me too, I thought the performances were good and the songs were beautiful, most of them were practical effects and the actors sang live , and it didn't deserve to lose the Golden Globe to this film that doesn't convince me as a musical. 😂 Any other could have won...
the thing about dialogue in musicals especially half-sung on beat is that doing it and making it sound natural is SO INCREDIBLY HARD. i’ve only heard it done well by broadway trained veteran actors, can’t even imagine why they would make normal actors attempt to do it. also how does a fucking GoGos jukebox musical have a better trans/gender identity story than this fucking mainstream film? (i’m talking about head over heels and if you haven’t read the plot it’s so good please it starred peppermint who i met and she’s so nice oh my god)
0:39 please tell me this is not real
i truly and literally gagged.
my jaw dropped like what. what.
Why did he hold the note like that I’m devastated
i have bad news
Maybe its the conspiracy theorist in me but this film feels like bait tanking on the fact that trans women draw attention and cartels draw shock value- the fact that the community of filmmakers is uplifting this feels the same way. yall dont want to actually listen to trans issues and stories yall just want a circus to look at
When I was like 5 I thought that when I hit puberty I would suddenly forget everything and become a completely different person, but mind you I was 5. It's crazy to think that a grown adult director thinks the same way about trans people transitioning 💀
I've seen people put more research into fanfiction than this director did for this movie
I really commend you for going beyond the judgment of this film as being “woke” and “DEI.” I’m so tired of these terms being so around, an instead you related your critiques to the communities affected by this so called woke or DEI movie. It’s definitely not that.
Real
any critic who unironically says that about a movie, barring an extreme circumstance, probably has worms in their brain
You know what this film does feature to make sure you know where it's set? Yes, it's Hollywood's favorite: the Mexican Urine Filter! The French love it too! Make that light yellow, that's how you know you're "south of the border".
Incidentally, part of the reason the director refused to film in Mexico was he "didn't like the light." Real Mexico didn't look sufficiently pee-stained, I guess.
Even as a musician, I have this weird thing where I hate hearing music unless I explicitly decide I want to listen to music. I almost always turn off video game soundtracks, my last 3 cars haven't had radios, I get antsy when I'm waiting in Taco Bell and they're just blasting some song I've had to hear every other time I'm waiting in Taco Bell
All this to say; I have a rocky relationship with musicals on a conceptual basis, and I can't fathom anything worse than a bad one
obviously it's your life and not mine, but the fact that you mute video game soundtracks is surprising. for me, it's a big part of the experience, and pretty much defines how memorable a game ends up being for me.
@firelordoregano5632 oh I know I'm the odd one out, and I promise I'm not just trying to just be a contrarian, but for me it's always been the opposite.
I think it mostly comes from growing up constantly being several console generations back and having to play old games with repetitive soundtracks, which rarely had the option to mute (although even if they had one I was too young to even think that far into it). It kind of drove me crazy and killed what little focus I had.
Nowadays, as games are massive productions (well, at least in AAA), we get these huge sweeping scores and I'm kind of right back where I was as a kid. Watching me play Elden Ring is probably so uncomfortable for people haha
Like I said, there are exceptions though! Transistor is one of my all time favorite games, and the music is so heavily intertwined with it that I can't imagine one without the other. So I'm not totally jaded 😂
@@TooSkramz ah yeah, i think i understand muting for old/arcade style games, the music can get repetitive and jarring. i mostly play rpgs where there's new tracks for each area and character, which makes me feel more connected and immersed, which would be pretty different from your experience.
@@firelordoregano5632 while I have your ear, got any suggestions/particular favorites? Outside of entry level stuff like New Vegas, KOTOR, or the occasional JRPG I've never really dug deep into the genre, kind of gets my head spinning sometimes and a lot of games end up on the "I'll try this someday!" list.
@@TooSkramz on jrpgs, one of my favorite games is octopath traveler. there's two games with satisfying turn-based/strategy combat, beautiful environments in a 3D pixel art style, and enjoyable characters. it's kind of like this grand adventure where you have 8 protagonists of different classes, and you get to build your party (you can use 4 at a time) in creative ways as you go through their individual stories, which end up being connected to each other in different ways.
on the indie side, there's undertale/deltarune, which you've probably heard of, which are pretty lighthearted with really charming characters and flavor text but can get a tiny bit dark if you dig deeper. they have a sort of 8 bit style, with turn based bullet-hell style combat encounters. you basically play as a kid traveling through an unfamiliar land you've fallen into, and your choices in encounters end up affecting the world.
hades is also a favorite, which is an isometric rougue-lite with active combat instead of being turn based. as is a pattern with my favorite games, it's beautifully designed with the whole thing in a sort of painted style, and really enjoyable characters. it's fully voice acted too! you play as the son of hades trying to escape the underworld with the help of boons from the olympians, and the different powers you can get, as well as different weapons, makes a ridiculous amount of creative combinations you can try with every run. because you'll probably die a lot. i did, anyway.
all of those, of course, have amazing soundtracks that very much elevate the experience of the game for me. those are my favorites, but they're not really the same kind of rpg as the games you mentioned, so apologies if none of them interest you
This movie feels like it was directed by David Cage
I thought the same thing
Fact checking Mexican culture and basic physiology is a failure of the movie designer.
The Brutalist is fucking amazing. 3.5 hours flew by.
And genuinely, Conclave has better LGBTQIA+ representation than Emilia Perez
In my state I have to schedule a court hearing so the judge can determine I'm not trying to change my name in order to escape the law. It's really expensive and I can't take time off work to do it. Guess I'm just jealous and bitter of this fantastic Oscar nominated masterpiece 🙄 maybe I should start a drug empire to pay for my entire transition too!
But no seriously, the idea that you die and are reborn when you transition is something, in some cases, that's weaponized by family members to make you feel guilty for causing them pain. In other cases it's used to disown you and worse.
If a youtuber had released this movie, everyone would make fun of it. But since it's by Michel Gondry, everyone makes fun of it but it's nominated for the oscars.
Give Best Pic for Im Still Here, it has the point they want, inclusion of latinos, a story about a real fact in Brazils brutal Dictatorship, that resinates with Trump in the white house, a strong lead woman with the best acting of the season (Ive seen all indicated movies, I maintain this opinion), all America (Central, South and Mexico, the important ones) will be happy and cheer for it, with high viewership on the day, I can say, without a doubt, it will be historic for the academy to give BP to a REAL latino movie!
the matrix is a far better trans story, and the best part is there’s no singing!
For spanish speakers that song where Selena wants to sleep is sing in High Valyrian, only with subtitles we can understand this
Wow, if I had a nickel for every time a tone deaf Oscar contender that deals with a car crash at some point, I'd have two nickels.
lmao
Oscars tv ratings have been going down every year for a while now. I think nominating this 'thing' is quite genius; rage and hate bating seems to sell well as of late. People will tune in to see how it goes. I dont think it will win beyound some technical awards,just to show they didnt nominated it for nothing.
I am actually baffled how this movie is nominated for best picture, it's basically crash all over again😭
I kept waiting for you to say “ just kidding” when you said the ending involved everyone dying in an explosion
That's the best possible ending tho!
Anyone who wants to understand cartels should avoid this movie like the plague
This movie almost feels like Simple Jack
This is like writing a book about being black in America as a white person and saying you already know everything
I love how Emilia Perez is uniting those from all races, genders, and political ideologies to unanimously shit on this movie. This may be the closest we get to world peace.
My gosh, this movie looks pitiful. It blows my mind that more than one person thought ANY of this was a good idea.
France hasn't insulted Mexico this badly since The Pastry War.
You're the only english speaker youtuber who has talked about the disrespect this movie has shown to Mexico and Latin America in general. Thank you!!
I've seen a dozen English-speaking youtubers talk about this issue in the past few hours alone.
34:39 did you just say WICKED???
FR. I lost all respect for him BAUSHSHS
Man, they really will nominate anything for an award as long as it looks pretentious and they have enough money to buy a consideration.
This might be the only movie that tries to do this kind of stuff that both sides of the political spectrum believe is horrible