Make a movie about Mexico, but: •Don’t research Mexican Culture •Don’t have any Mexican actors •Don’t shoot it in Mexico •Don’t have anyone who speaks spanish •Don’t release it in Mexico
And STILL win! Black Panther 1 and 2 had 0 shots in Africa despite Africa actually having alot of beatiful vistas and It would rly help thier economy. And it was still celebrated!
@@Lilith_Di_Vil English is very simple compared to Spanish vocabulary, it is drastic to translate english to spanish without any expertise of the language or any actor who could actually speak it/ know its linguistics
@@Lilith_Di_Vil do you really believe that? People are 100% capable to adapt movies in foreing language to english, they could easily made a movie where characters knew something of Spanish. And Selena Gomez character has a broken Spanish because the actress speaks Spanish worse than me.
Stop pretending , Millions of stories, movies, series, and shows are dubbed all the time. Just think of SpongeBob-a cartoon popular worldwide-and no one is complaining about it not having a direct translation. To truly understand the equivalent meaning, you need to master the language. Personally, I learned English online through memes, and now I speak both English and my native Spanish fluently. Surely that musical movie can make a little effort
I love how the casting director said there weren't "good Mexican actors" to play the MEXICAN roles when people like Melissa Barrera and Dana Paola are literally right there, and they actually know how to sing
not to mention could you believe what would happen if a white or Japanese director making a story about Mississippi said "there weren't any good black actors..." the internet would cease to operate.
I’m bitter it lost to “Sacred Fig”. The director is persona non grata in Iran for the crime of making it. Mohammad Rasoulof did not lose his country for THIS.
@@katherinelynch4193 As a brazilian, I would not be sad if "Sacred fig" won... But "I'm still here" losing for "Emilia Pérez" is just awful... Two beautiful films, portraying complex/inspiring stories, losing for this insanity is just outrageous...
as a latina woman, I have no notes. one of the worst oscar contenders EVER. what makes me even more angry is that we have a true latino movie right there (I'm still here) that was made by latinos and that portrays our real story with so much sensibility and beauty
@@tomboyraider1015 i am still here A brazilian movie made with one of our greatest actresses and actor. It is based on the real life story of a family torn apart by the military dictatorship we had here.
I am argentinian, but I can tell you that Emilia Pérez feels like a huge mockery of all Latin America. Hearing a non-Spanish speaker acknowledge the many problems of this film has restored my faith in humanity. Thank you very much.
@@Chrysobubulle we're all latinos. we go through similar experiences and understand each other better. each country has its own unique culture and unique struggles as well, but still, we stand for one another. just by watching these scenes i can already see how this movie doesn't reflect real mexican struggles AT ALL. if you do a little research and inform yourself, there's no way you won't see the differences. so yeah, we might not go through exactly the same situations as mexico does, but that doesn't mean we won't show empathy or support. these issues could have all been avoided by actually listening to what other people have to say and acting based on their needs. and as latinos, we also wanna see latinos being well represented.
5:13 it's not only distracting for native mexican spanish speakers, but for all spanish speakers. Never thought i would have to use subtitles for a movie in my native language
Es increíble que nadie les haya dicho lo horrible que suena cada una de las palabras que gesticulan en ese supuesto español, se cargaron siglos de idiomas solo porque sí..
This happened for me in Black Panther when they went to Busan cuz I didn't understand what the hell that "Korean" lady was saying. Hell, Lupita was *slightly* better than her
La escena de una canción de Selena Gómez dónde se la pasa diciendo bienvenida, no se si me falta contexto de la película pero parece que tradujeron "you're welcome" literalmente así que en vez de decir "de nada" dice bienvenida. Y siguiendo hablando de esa escena, el clip que ví tiene subtitulos en portugués que dan a entender mejor que esta diciendo Selena y no se nada de portugués
As a French person that happens to work in the film Industry (not in France) I am quite ashamed of what has been coming out of France for awards of late when France is capable of making truly amazing films. Jacques Audiard is a pretentious , pompous washed up director that has not made anything good in a very long time. It is a shame that most decent French cinema these days is French language only and seldom get international releases unless they get a Hollywood adaptation that ends up not being as good as the original half the time like Coda for example.
coda est pour moi mille fois mieux que la famille bélier. et bon ton avis sur jacques audiard est loins d'etre unanime en france, étant tjr encore aujourd’hui considéré comme un génie par la profession.
@@zkme2734 Correct. She did a fantastic thriller in Revenge and mainly worked TV before bringing out a phenomenal second film in The Substance. It's a film that I can say finds the right balance of social satire and body horror to make it unique and effective.
@@theprowler18 Yes that is a great film ! It’s a shame that most mainstream awards seldom give awards to horror films these days other than in technical categories as there are some very good films in the genre.
I saw all the Selena Gomez fans defending her to death saying "she did the best with the time she was given". Wouldn't a mexican, as she likes to call herself so much, be able to speak decent spanish? Or at least take intensive classes? Seriously? Also I'm calling on their BS on the Spaniard actors: for Cantinflas (2014) Oscar Jaenada, a spanish actor, had to learn the special pacing and mannerisms of Cantinflas, one of the most beloved comedians in mexican culture. He was hated when announced but his acting was so good he ended up being praised by mexicans and critics alike, aside of the poor rating for the overall film.
@@ssr2201makes no sense, her children spoke perfect spanish but she didn't... just don't hire her. Many mexican americans have a special accent, yes it is different, but not like this. Trataron de que a huevo tuviera sentido contratarla y ya 😂
I read about the "penis to vagina" song, and even after watching this video and learning it's entirely in earnest, I still can't believe it's real, let alone one from a movie that will most likely get many Oscar nominations.
I think someone in the audience is going to say “Excuse me a moment” and then cut to a bathroom where they puked at the toilet over the disgusting words and acts people are forced to partake in. Or do like Peter Griffin did and say “DONE” And then walking off.
To be fair, that song now sticks to my head because of it being viral. Had the song changed to 'I want to know about straight people conversation" it would be a Rupaul lipsync.
Thank you for this video. Here in Mexico we just freaking hate this movie. It fails not only as a musical, but as a portrayal of our social issues. The dialogue it's not only terrible, but it sounds unnatural, we can't barely understand what Selena is trying to say and it's just deeply offensive in every other aspect. There are people trying to argue that we just can't handle foreigners talking about us but we have Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel (a french director too!) made back in the fifties, key difference is that he educated himself enough to made that film to the point that he literally had a career here in Mexico. And other mexican directors have tackled the drug and cartel problem in fiction even in the form of comedy movies like El Infierno by Luis Estrada. It feels like they are trying to gaslight us that this is a good film and valid representation when it's so far removed from our reality and that's why we can't accept it.
Don't disagree with anything but Buñuel was basically Mexican so I don't feel like it counts. That's like saying Jodorowsky or Placido Domingo were "foreigners".
@@aR0ttenBANANA Basically, Luis Buñuel began his filmography in his home country (Spain) and continued it in Mexico, because he was fleeing the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
As a Trans woman and a Mexican woman LIVING in Mexico, all at the same time, LIVING CONSTANTLY IN FEAR OF THE CARTEL VIOLENCE, this felt like a punch to the guts, to the face and a obliteration punch to the chest.
I saw a review on letterboxd that said "every generation deserves their own Crash (2004)", which pretty much sums up this entire movie but also makes me nervous it could be the consensus choice when it comes to voting for best picture.
I don't think it will win. Sure, it will be nominated (which is bad), but I don't think it will win BP. If anything, it's either Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, or even Wicked. But imagine this... THE SUBSTANCE WINNING BP (I know it won't happen but still...)
@@m.syauqiabdurahman2798I'm sad because I'm sure Eggers' Nosferatu won't even be nominated for Best Costumes or Cinematography, because the Oscars are allergic to horror or smth.
Honestly, I've never seen Crash, and I don't know what it's about, but I have to assume it deserved Best Picture in 2004. People didn't make good movies until like a few years ago, and Crash is I assume still up to modern standards which says a lot, so I'm absolutely sure it was in at least the running for it. You can blame Wokeism that whatever shit movie did win wasn't Crash, especially since then and after Obama. Anyone who disagrees with me is probably compensating for something. Edit: Huh. It was Lord of the Rings: Return of the King that year. Actually a great movie. But my point still stands.
@@samnelson7428 So you've never seen Crash, but you assume its still up to modern standards, and you assume it deserved Best Picture in 2004. Based on what??? How you imagined the film went in your head??? And then you blame Wokeism on whatever movie actually won, but when you go and look its actually a movie you like and you don't change your mind about anything you just said???
I will stand up for the poor ChatGPT here. I translated the book I wrote in Polish to English and I have to tell you - the translation is quite accurate. More accurate then I expected. By no means is it perfect, but it will save me years of trying to fully re-write it in English myself.
Unfortunately it is not mentioned in the Razzie ballots, but if they create a new category called “Most Overrated Film” Emilia Perez will win hands down
I HATED THIS MOVIE WITH A PASSION (Mexican girl here). The singing was terrible, AND THE SONGS THEMSELVES WERE SO SO SO SO BAD (also a lover of musicals). I hated this movie and I wished that I could unwatch it.
I tried to watch it twice, and I just could not get past the first 30 min due to how bogus it seemed. I love cinema and I wanted to get into it. Couldn't do it.
The fact this is winning over Wicked blows my mind. I only heard like a 30 second clip of one of the songs and laughed hysterically. How insulting to even remotely call this trash a musical.
The fact that this film is quite high on Oscar prediction scared me. Like, if anything, please let the Best Director be: Baker, Corbet, Villeneuve, Fargeat, and Chu (I'm a Wicked fan and I loved Wicked so... CHU FOR THE GOAL!)
A film that takes place in Mexico that centers around the Cartel is directed by a French dude I'm honestly surprised they didn't release this film on Cinco de Mayo
I find it hilarious that a lot of celebrities have praised this movie and everything about it. Meanwhile, people in the trans community as well as Mexican citizens hate this movie with the force of a thousand suns. That’s probably how you know there’s a bit of virtue signaling going on.
I'm trans and a trans activist. I love this movie. Only american people hate this movie. I can assure you, in France there's absolutely no problem with it. Really weird how these anti-art takes are normal in America. This moralistic vision has nothing to do with art. The lgbtqia+ struggle is about fighting in the streets and at the ballot box for concrete rights. It's not about hating a work of art as soon as the trans-identity isn't shown exactly as you want it to be. Now, I don't know anything about Mexico so I can't speak on that, but for the trans part ? Nothing to hate in this film.
I know some mexican exchange students in my film class, and they said it's the worst movie they've ever watched, and that they were offended by how how they were represented in the movie
As a mexican I can confirm, specially with the spanish part, if they are not going to at least make it try to sound real, why bother trying to make it in spanish, like the only good spanish speaker has the thickest Costa rican accent ever and that would be perfect if the others actors at least sounded like they know wtf they are saying
@@daniboy4153 like, they have freakin Anora, Wicked, and The Substance (Which I personally think should've won even tho I loved Wicked) and yet... this won?
@@Winduct you lost me when you said "woke" mate grow up before its to late I also believed that shit when I was in highschool,as a college I learned is the same thing with the self insert stories,just assholes writting and directing stories,because on your logic "12 year slave" is "woke garbage" because we follow the story of a guy being brought to slavery out of his family but its bad because he is black,grow up.
Also I'd like to take a moment to poit out how offensive is the use of The Virgin of Guadalupe imagery in the film. Virgin Mary is a deeply important religious figure for Mexicans, like you see her in every corner here in México as a symbol of protection and hope. It would be one thing to criticize catholic conservative values, the church as institution, and the real connections they have with organized crime, but it's so disgusting to constantly see a violent psychopathic criminal compared with the most beloved and sacred religious figure of the culture you're trying to represent. Here in México, we don't simply treat drug dealers and/or social activist as religious figures. Like were not a buch of savages that treat as a divine Messiah some person just because they did some good for society. It's being really condescending to us, saying if some rich person does some activism, we will worship them because we're just that miserable
Thank you for pointing out the fact Emilia literally had a hand in the destruction and disappearances of Mexican citizens in the movie. I felt like I was going insane when she decided to open their missing persons nonprofit WITH EMILIA’S LEFT OVER CARTEL MONEY. And the movie never really acknowledges that Emilia was the main source of all of those people going missing? Like, the movie tried to make her seem like she’s trying to redeem herself, but it’s so hard when the main character doesn’t even acknowledge it herself + just literally tosses money at the problem to make herself feel better.
It's part of how the director is treating the character's transition as the death of the male past and the female being a new person. The trans and mexican community was a prop for this director's fantasy film. It may as well have been an anime series
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
This was my worst fear when I heard the premise. I can’t believe they just glossed over the whole cartel leader thing & tried to paint the title character as sympathetic.
I think two changes could've gone a long way: 1. Make the main character an underling within the cartel rather than the cartel boss. Make them someone who hates killing but felt as if they had no choice. 2. Address the fact that doing some good now is not the same as getting a time machine and reversing all the bad things they did in the past. Dealing with this conflict head on would've made for a more compelling story.
@@Gee-xb7rt Just because it's based on a book doesn't mean they have to follow it word for word. I don't even think it's a bad movie. I'm just giving my opinion on what could have been different. Do you know what an opinion is?
I hate this movie. I don’t understand the hype for it at all and why it’s being nominated and even winning so many awards. The fact it won over Wicked at the globes is baffling.
Kenny and Spenny (two Canadian icons) wrote a movie about an American mobster who gets a sex change, becomes a woman and has to run the mafia that way now. They literally took the plot of their 25 year old comedy script and made it Oscar bait lol
It's absolutely insane how *no one* likes this movie, not Spanish speakers, not musical fans, not the trans community thet they so desperately tried to pander to, NO ONE, yet it still won. It's Oscar bait through and through, like that stupid ass movie with Aragorn and Blade riding a car trying to be deep lol
You have a point, except one. Maybe Green book not that deep, audiences in the different countries like it very much. That’s why such big scores on sites. Emilia Peres don’t like anyone, except some critics, who know nothing about Mexico or trans-stuff, but like to be “progressive”
I have not seen a single person talk positively about this movie. Trans people hated it. Mexican people hated it. Latino people in general hated it. People who like musicals hated it. Honestly, even the people in the movie seem to be having a horrible time
As a queer mexican I salute the true analytical effort you showed in here. This film is a travesty and truly offensive to mexican society in many levels (a lyric line sung by the families of the disappeared victims states they`re collaborating with the face-washing NGO of Emilia's because thusly they would get payback from society's mocking of their pain... I haven't felt such vitriol towards a movie ever and then this scene happened). It's really ennerving how inhumanly the white north looks at us.
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
I’m not Mexican but honestly yes!! It’s disgusting the way they look at non white folks . Only shows us that minorities need to stick together and forge against stuff like this .
Like there is no corruption in Mexico ? Why mexicans people cross the border to get in the US if it's not because the level of corruption of Mexican government.
I wouldn't use this as an example of how anyone but Hollywood elites look at things. Hollywood has been offending normal people throughout the whole world for a long time. That most certainly includes the US. They are completely out of touch.
TERRIBLE MOVIE!!! the ¨Mexican¨actors were speaking spanish in a whole arrange of different accents none of them Mexican, it is revolting and incredibly pretentious
You'd think that (non-Mexican) Zoe Saldana would have learned to stop "appropriating cultures" (something they claim to hate!) after she played Nina Simone (in blackface and afro wig!!), but nope.
I thought you people said you don't care about this kind of issue. Don't you people claim that all this cultural appropriation talk is just a fabrication by white liberals? When has Zoe ever commented on cultural appropriation?
I'm sure this movie will win so many Oscars and I'm disgusted, because 2024 was a great year for movies. We had Dune part 2, Challengers, Wicked, The Substance, Gladiator II, Nosferatu, Conclave...I can't believe the Academy is going to reward this trash.
Don’t forget Sonic 3, which btw was snubbed from even being nominated because, in the Oscars’ own words, “it didn’t meet diversity and inclusion standards”
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
Award shows have been nothing but hollywood masturbating to it's own image for decades now. The idea of rewarding talent has long since been forgotten. I hold that the only reason why award shows are watched by regular people is to watch the presenter roast the nominees and winners. There's a reason why the golden globe was presented by Ricky Gervais no less than seven times. It's because Ricky Gervais did mercilessly roast and call out all of these celebrities.
There's nothing wrong with giving out awards for excellence in a field, but to have a gaudy televised circle jerk every year (which happens for more than just film/tv) is too much.
I have a massive issue with her faking her own death just to Mrs. Doubtfire her way back into her family’s lives, which you masterfully touched on. Also, why the fuck did she hire a lawyer for this? Seriously though, it makes no sense to me. The whole movie is trash.
As a mexican person myself, I can't stop wondering of a ideal world were a movie like Sujo, wich is a mexican film shot in Mexico that is actually sensitive in its way to portraying the drug cartel culture and the issues that the people actually struggle with
@@eshswamdune wasn’t in the same category as those two movies, though. Not saying that Zoe Saldana doesn’t deserve the award, but Ariana should’ve won. At least in Wicked, you don’t have to hear about operations 💀
Plus Ariana and Cynthia CAN sing. Most of Emilia Perez cast can not - including main character. Despite all other issues with that movie it is extremally unfair that it won AS a muisical. It is ridiculous.
After I finished watching “Emilia Perez” I was left speechless, not because the movie left me emotionally motivated, it left me confused and frustrated! I just don’t understand what was the movie’s theme or overall message. Was it about regret, remorse, or atonement? Or was it overcoming adversity or that institutional oppression leads to the endless cycle of violence? I can’t understand what the film is trying to say because the film doesn’t know what it wants to say! There’s no central story and the main characters are one dimensional and defined by their physical identities, rather than their individualism!
It boggles my mind we’ve had one of the greatest films in recent times depicting Mexico’s violence and sad reality by a French director (Denis Villeneuve) with “Sicario” & one of the worst Oscar bait films depicting Mexico’s violence and sad realities by a French director. Que vergüenza.
Zoe does speak Spanish well, but her Dominican accent kept slipping up and only half way through the movie she says “I was born in the DR” but she doesn’t say if Rita grew up there and also Rita’s parents are Mexican so it doesn’t explain her accent at all.
I don't like the term Oscar bait but this is on another level. This movie is made just for awards, they're not bringing attention to a real life issue, the Spanish is translated through Google and we (Mexicans and the tragedy of all the people killed by cartels) are just used as a lazy excuse to make it appealing for voters. It's like when people donate like one dollar to help kids in Africa and they feel better with themselves, but in this case it's people giving it awards
When I think of Oscar bait, I think of Maestro. The movie was less about telling the story of Leonard Bernstein's life and celebrating his accomplishments but more about giving Bradley Cooper a prosthetic nose in hopes of getting an award.
@ just like this movie isn't about cartel violence or trans people and more about having minorities in a screen so people can feel good about supporting a movie and calling it stuff like brave and groundbreaking from a completely ignorant point of view
This movie is the ultimate representation of how white liberals see other cultures just that this one is Mexican. Its point is to congratulate them for supposedly being educated about their knowing something about another culture.
As a mexican i gotta say the Selena Gomez songs gave me a headache trying to understand what she was saying, not only for her accent, but the lyrics made no sense. It seems they wrote everything in French and put them into google translate. Besides, giving a cartel leader a redemption arc is honestly insulting after the hell real narcos had been putting us through for decades.
As an Argentine, I'm not surprised by Hollywood's poor representation. Anyone living in Latin America and watching U.S. movies knows this. They think they know everything and show things however they want. They don’t even bother to Google.
In a category that had The Substance, Anora, Wicked, Challengers, and A Real Pain, they chose the weakest movie I think most of the love is for Zoe Saldana and Jacques Audiard to finally be recognized for awards
It legitimately would've been better if they nominated Mufasa: The Lion King over this. And even then, there were loads more better options than either film.
Anora or The Substance should've won. Don't care about Challengers because the weirdo director is a hack (the fact that he walked out when this "won," is fucking laughable!).
You guys made it this way. Film is just reflecting culture. And you guys have created a culture where it’s acceptable for men to feel entitled to women only spaces because they “feel” like they know the woman experience because they put on heels and badly apply make up. And where just being mentally off is cause for applause and virtue signaling. Saying things like “She has XY chromosomes” in the sports field. But it’s a problem when a French man decides he knows what being Mexican is like? It’s a problem when mediocre acting gets applause? Why?
@@connergehdatbahng these series of comments is why I always delete these recommendations from my Watch History so that I don't have to see this sort of garbage content.
I would also love for people to address the transphobia in the movie, not just the racist xenophobia. It baffled me a trans woman is participating in a transphobic movie.
As a latin american, from what I saw in this video, it doesn't seem like it's racist xenophobia, it's more like... just plain ignorance and taking stereotypes as fact. It's like if I made a movie set in the US but filmed in Angola with only Angolan actors and made everyone wear MAGA hats and only eat burgers.
@alexanderzhukov3773 I have. I've seen it, unfortunately. The trans experience is not just surgery and body parts as the movie continues to say.... And the trans experience in mexico... don't get me started. EP doesn't even address the horrible stigma trans people in my country live with. How they are killed on a daily basis, including the muxes (I'm not going to explain, I'm tired of explaining and educating. Your ignorance is not my responsibility) . "You change your body to society change" is the stupidest most transphobic motto of this movie. Not to mention reinforcing gender stereotypes (man=bad and violent, woman=good and nurturing) just for Emilia In the end to abuse her ex wife anyways..... I can't even stress all te transphobia enough... if you want to educate yourself, you will have to do so by yourself.
BRO! Descripting Crash as a sermon is SOOO on point. I watched that movie twice when I was a teen and both time I was just like "Well... that was a movie I guess?"
This movie went past my radar. Glad I didn't give it my time. This reminds me of that film school style of thinking where you take a bunch of broad topics that you care about, and turn the characters into vessels for those topics (as you said). I can't believe these scripts keep getting optioned. I really should just sell out, roll a set of topic dice and make some slop lol
Maybe you should support the message that all these groups are in danger because of Donald Trump instead of picking apart the movie looking for a deeper meaning or better production value. The messages that these groups are endangered and persecuted by people who live pretty good lives and are unaffected by these groups. And the fact that you take all your information about movies from this goof speaks volumes. Because he's not smart enough to realize it's the message of the movie and not the content of it that matters. Neutrality is weakness in times of great contest. And the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who choose neutrality during those times
@@matthew-jy5jp This is a movie that favors the characters traits as opposed to what they've actually done. The director/writers pulls punches when portraying the awful acts that the MC committed AND they pull punches when trying to explain modern LGBT experiences in a professional setting. This movie literally does play it neutral in order to get as large of an audience as possible and you grovel at its mastery. Thats gross. When you favor art over inserted messaging life becomes a lot more enjoyable.
@@matthew-jy5jp What kind of non-sense are you pulling here. You do not denigrate art to push a message. If you want to communicate to the audience about something you think is important, you tell a good story that anyone can empathise with. You do not just shove THE MESSAGE in the audience's face, you will just alienate even the people who were neutral and could have seen things your way. And name-calling will not do it either!
@@Vlonde 'This is a movie that favors the characters [sic] traits as opposed to what they've actually done'. BUT, what you do is what informs people about you character. And the movie does not pull punches, it's a full wet gaseous leak on the audience's face.
Everyone needs to see your video. The Emilia Pérez defenders need to be ripped of their delusion. As a Latino man, I agree with every single point you made.
I wish for the day for a mexicano to do a movie about french culture with a mime, a baguette, croissants, Ladybug, bad smelling, google translate and Emily in paris and see how México feels about esa porquería.
This person doesn't try to represent a native English speaker. Besides their broken English means this person knows more than one language (they're educated) unlike what the film portrays (a poor attempt of Spanish)
@@Dirk_diggler97 Oh yeah bc someone on the internet not knowing a language properly is 100% the same as a director making a whole ass movie in a language he doesn't know
One of the most jarring facts I've learned about Emilia Perez is that it hasn't even been released in Mexico!!! The people involved made about Mexico without even considering their reaction! It's appalling. Someone on Letterboxd reviewed it best, "Like Ryan Murphy trying to direct an Almodovar move."
Among a million other things, I specifically hate how this movie is titled after a persons name so everytime someone talks about it, it sounds like they're talking about a single person
I mean, it's not like Emilia Perez isn't a horrible character, we all gotta act as if a head narco "deserves" to retire to a new life and whitewash her actions, pardoning gangmembers or releasing them as moles is controversial for a reason
I'm Mexican, born and raised, and believe me when I tell you that this is one of the best reviews I've seen about this movie. It basically covers all my feelings of when I watched it for the first time. Thank you for shedding some light on this topic. I would add the following so that people from other countries could understand how we feel. Imagine if a director from another country chooses a deeply painful topic from where you live, for example school shootings in the United States, then chooses actors from a completely different country who don't even speak the language, never researches the topic and seems to scoff about it when he writes the script. On top of that, he makes it all into a musical, as if giving a less serious tone to a topic that hurts many families who have suffered its ravages. I don't usually write my opinion, but this movie made my blood boil like no other so far, and leaving aside feelings I would feel ashamed to be part of something like that as an artist, whether as an actor, director or even costume and set designer. The ignorance surrounding first world countries when it comes to developing countries is painful; there are few cases of people who seek to go a little further and really understand these situations. Drug trafficking is part of Mexico, yes, but Mexico is not just about drugs. Hopefully that will become clear one day.
Absolutely awful movie. The message is your path to redemption is simple change your sex, even when you've been a vile character like the lead (cartel boss). It's sick!
The path to redemption is recognizing your flaws and try to make things right even if no one will appreciate you. It is better to try rather than run in circles. It is hard but creating a better path is more important than destroying others that have done no harm.
That’s acceptable every other day though… with men being allowed in women’s prisons and celebrating men just because they say they “feel” like women, as brave. What’s the problem now?
If this movie somehow wins an Oscar for Best Picture this year, this is gonna be like Crash, Shakespeare in Love, Green Book as the Worst Best Picture winner of all time.
@@theketaminekid1241 I think it's gonna be The Brutalist which will win Best Picture as they already won Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama, also the movie is made by A24 and A24 is always giving us good movies even with no much marketing. Hopefully The Brutalist won over Emilia Perez for Best Picture but I wouldn't mind if The Substance or Wicked also win.
@@margarethmichelina5146 Hope the Oscar loves Conclave. Oh, and it's so sad that Emilia Perez will most likely win Original Song when Kiss The Sky from The Wild Robot is there.
@@margarethmichelina5146 I hope “Dune Part Two”, “The Brutalist”, or “Anora” wins. They better get the right film or the ceremonies won’t matter in the end.
It's amazing how this film has unified a sector of Latin America in hating a shallow and not researched portrayal of common issues that the region has suffered. I'm taking about all the themes in the movie
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Literally the French director used Google Translate to make this movie, his dialogues don't make sense, he couldn't get some people who speak Spanish to read the whole script, it doesn't make sense, like for example when Selena uses the word "vulva" to refer to the vagina, it was so anticlimactic and the dialogues are not understood. The songs are horrible and each word used is not coherent with the other, having so many actors who participate in movies Hollywood who speak Spanish, but well, it does not surprise me at all, if the French believe that Mexicans do not have Internet, do not use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., that technology does not exist in Latam, that people do not have smartphones or iPhones, computers, laptops, that we live in the last century, That is to say, all the stereotypes that Hollywood has transmitted in its films. Most Latino people who migrate to the USA do so because they do not have many economic resources and do not have opportunities in their places of origin, that is why they look for work in the USA thinking that they will live better but when they arrive they realize the reality that it is the same or worse for them because life is not easy there and they need up to 3 jobs to have just a little peace of mind.
The man said he already knew all that needed to be known. So, fk authenticity, I guess. This is the arrogance that makes the industry increasingly unpalatable.
I think everyone in Hollywood is trying to show versatility and geniality 😂. Nobody wants to build a career... They want to show everything in just a couple of movies. "I can dance, I can sing, I can cry, I can get angry, I can do stunts, I can fight, I can speak 3 languages, I can represent everything or everyone, I'm trans, I'm smart... I'm genius! I'm better than Glenn Close! I have an Oscar and she doesn't have any! Awful! All my respect to Glenn Close, btw! She is fenomenal and the academy sucks.
Selena looks too young to play the wife, I honestly thought she was the main character’s daughter grappling with her dad’s sex change. And they just glossed over Zoe being an afro Latin woman. To have an afro-Mexican would be a big deal, hell Lupita Nyongo is Mexican and of direct African descent
Well, a cartel boss having a young wife is like the only accurate part of the movie actually. These people have like literal children on the streets selling drugs and trafficking them, they don't gaf 😭😭 if anything, she's too old
>make bad movie >its not going well on set >crew is in a huddle at lunch, they're saying my name and laughing >start to panic >rewrite character to be transitioned >people start calling me brave >I feel brave >see crew at lunch >they invite me over >producers and set designers telling me I'm a genius >executives start talking about awards is it really this easy bros?
>movie gets everything wrong about transitioning >movie plays out almost every tired transmisogynistic trope >movie somehow get awards in a year that saw trans cinema like I Saw the TV Glow >actual real life trans women mock and tear down the movie on the internet >cis people tell themselves what good allies they are for having made it >cis people on the internet ignore how half the real problems with the movie tie back to how it portrays trans people in order to whine about diversity
"Should we give Wicked, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed musicals of all time, the best musical award? No! Give it to the cringe trans musical that nobody wants to watch. Take that, Trump!" -Golden Globe voters
Here in México we have Cinepolis, it's the biggest cinema enterprise in the country. This company its trying to sell us this movie just because of the awards in the golden globes, and even bringing Guillermo del Toro saying praises of the movie. Here we love Guillermo, but knowing the back story of the director its like doble standards for him. In the end we all hate Emilia Perez.
Sir you definitely understand a lot more than Audiard, you understand how this is a bad representation of Mexico, how it is an oversimplification of a terrible problem that is causing a lot of pain and damage to Mexico and the world, how it is absurd to pretend that "Manitas" transitioning to "Emilia" washes away all his crimes, and how a Dominican, a Venezuelan, a Spaniard and a Mexican American are not the same as a Mexican.
Her acting in the intro when she pretends to be happy while she's actually grieving of her besties' death and even singing the high note to cover her sadness is so good.
Emilia Perez is a gold mine of unintentional humor we Mexicans should just point the absurdity of it paroding it to death until it's stupity gets hard to ignore, now we have or own The Room," I did not hit her"
I feel like this movie is most likely going to garner the same level of unintentional hilarity as the room for the “I want to learn about sex chang operations” song alone!
I'm not Mexican, but I'm a native Spanish-speaker and Selena Gómez' speaking parts have become a meme here in Latin America due to how bad she speaks, though in her defense it seems her character is not supposed to be a native speaker, but I think they should have her just speak in English Also, the movie was criticized by some Mexican actors icluding Eugenio Derbez, who himself is a somewhat divisive figure, but even his detractors have agreed with him
it wasn't just horrible as a movie but also as a musical, the songs and the singing are... interesting... I was very shocked it won over Wicked which is a WAY better musical
I'm glad to see that not all the english speakers consider this movie a contender for the Oscars. It Is a disgrace and an insult which ignores how serious the drug traffic really Is.
Everyone knows Selena Gomez is a less than mediocre singer and not as good of an actress, but oh boy… she truly takes being untalented to a whole new level on this movie…
Given how much of this movie's badness can be accredited to the director's incompetence, I'm trusting that Selena's acting is also a victim of that. She's been decent and even good in other projects, the common denominator is this movie's director
I didn’t actually see this movie so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but from what I’ve seen about this movie it falls into all of the tropes of so called “groundbreaking trans representation” that cis people love and makes trans people cringe. The one thing they did right was having a trans actress instead of a cis one, but that’s a somewhat low bar at this point. It just annoys me so much to have cis writers/directors peddling this idea that “all can be forgiven if you’re trans” bc that’s NOT how most of the community thinks and it doesn’t help humanize trans people in the slightest. Like, the solution to a minority group being villainized isn’t to go “so what if they’re bad people? They’re trans!”, it’s to understand that trans people are HUMANS and can be good or bad just like anyone else. When I transitioned, what helped my mom really accept me is when I told her “I’m not a different person, I’m still your kid and I always will be”, bc it’s TRUE. You don’t switch personalities when you transition! It’s also a weird form of gender essentialism to say “men are bad/evil and women are gentle/good”, it’s one of those things that a liberal Hollywood person might *think* is woke but it’s just a different way of upholding gender stereotypes rather than breaking them down. It’s all just… mind numbingly stupid. (Also I heard that the trans woman character dies at the end? If that’s true, it’s another stupid trope that cis people looove to call deep and meaningful even when it’s the most basic tragedy porn you can think of)
it makes me sad as a member of the lgbt to not be able to support and be excited about this film. but i meannn, this is just the shallowest trans storyline i’ve seen in years. there was good bones with this film however it got so lost in the sauce. really at the detriment of every one of the films messages
I used to hold more respect for the Golden Globes. They hired Ricky Gervais again and again to properly maim the industry. But when I saw the Hollywood Foreign Press slobbed over this trash and completely ignored Dune part 2... Shame. Dune part 2 is an absolute masterpiece. Zendaya aside, every player (on both sides of the screen), deserved a nomination. The Brutalist was amazing too. But Dune part 2 was absolutely perfect. And the most watchable film ever made. The script adaptation. Direction. Cinematography. The score. Which was absolutely unfairly disqualified.
Sorry, but Zoe and Selena agreeing to a film directed by a white man choosing not to research another culture? Nah, the ladies threw away their Latina cards
@@hurremhightowerher grandparents are from Mexico lol. She, like many 2nd or 3rd gen folk, spoke Spanish as a child and then lost her language growing up.
Your framing is kind of weird. As a white latin american (german ancestry), the dichotomy between latina and white here is... weird. "You can't be tall because you're skinny" sort of weird. I blame Zoe and Selena for not being actually spanish speakers and pretending to be as much as the director. They have sins of their own beyond working with someone who has no idea what they're doing.
Many people say this is 2024’s Crash and/or Green Book. I’ve watched video essays from Mexican content creators, and in reading the comments in those videos, there’s a VAST and guide spread sense of disrespect from Mexicans and the Latinamerican community at large. How Hollywood is always pandering about “inclusion”, and how “progressive” they are; but it only seems to matter in a cherry-picking manner, which makes it incredibly performative. The casting director said how “authenticity and representation” mattered when it came to a trans woman impersonating Emilia, but what about Mexican representation? I guess then it doesn’t matter? Right, because it isn’t a hot topic you can use to pat yourself on the back and virtue signal about how inclusive you are 👈🏼 this makes it incredibly dishonest, hypocritical, performative and disrespectful to all minorities, even the ones they bothered themselves with including, like the trans community. Because they’re being used as a vehicle, as means to an end, not because Hollywood genuinely cares about them. That’s disgusting. You care about inclusion or you don’t. But cherry picking when it matters, and when it doesn’t, shows what they’re truly about.
It's really satisfying as mexican filmmaker see people frome other countries involved in cinema realize this movie is actualy an incompetent, ignorant, pritensiuos, eurocentrist middle finger to Mexico that doesn't care a shit about the real huge problem the cartels, insequrity and forced disappearances represent (especially in Jalisco state, wich I am from).
Bro, I've never seen you before in my UA-cam, nor do I even know Emilia Perez even existed. I do not really give an F about the Oscars. Idk why you were on my recommended, but I tapped out of curiosity. 4 minutes in, I paused the video, liked it and subscribed to you. This is the only video of I've seen of yours and it has truly captivated me. I wish I could explain things as beautifully and precisely as you did. Keep up the good work mate.
So refreshing to watch at least Mexicanamericano youtuber telling the truth about both this horrendous film as well as Brokeback Mountain´s disgraceful snub for Best Picture
Hollywood is only a couple hours away from Mexico, yet Mexico is still written like it’s on a different planet.
Its not a Hollywood production tho it's French
@Dirk_diggler97 well that makes sense
To them, poor people are not human (and as such, might aswell be aliens).
Cause it is. Bro, Hollywood is literally different planet where people in the bubble of being super wealthy and self-centric.
Make a movie about Mexico, but:
•Don’t research Mexican Culture
•Don’t have any Mexican actors
•Don’t shoot it in Mexico
•Don’t have anyone who speaks spanish
•Don’t release it in Mexico
@@SoloJona doesn't respect the victims of crime and a social problem currently ongoing in Mexico.
It makes me laugh how they purposely released it in Mexico AT THE END, in January. Until after the academy nominates it for the Academy Awards.
And STILL win!
Black Panther 1 and 2 had 0 shots in Africa despite Africa actually having alot of beatiful vistas and It would rly help thier economy.
And it was still celebrated!
This movie is a fantasy. Its entertainment. Love it or leave it.
It worked for Slumdog millionaire
The fact that a movie with google translation dialogue got an award baffles me
@@Lilith_Di_Vil what a dumb justification 🤣🤣
@@Lilith_Di_Vil English is very simple compared to Spanish vocabulary, it is drastic to translate english to spanish without any expertise of the language or any actor who could actually speak it/ know its linguistics
@@Lilith_Di_Vil do you really believe that? People are 100% capable to adapt movies in foreing language to english, they could easily made a movie where characters knew something of Spanish.
And Selena Gomez character has a broken Spanish because the actress speaks Spanish worse than me.
Stop pretending , Millions of stories, movies, series, and shows are dubbed all the time. Just think of SpongeBob-a cartoon popular worldwide-and no one is complaining about it not having a direct translation. To truly understand the equivalent meaning, you need to master the language. Personally, I learned English online through memes, and now I speak both English and my native Spanish fluently. Surely that musical movie can make a little effort
Selena is a terrible actor , terrible singer , cant speak say "hola" even if she tried
I love how the casting director said there weren't "good Mexican actors" to play the MEXICAN roles when people like Melissa Barrera and Dana Paola are literally right there, and they actually know how to sing
Many casting directors have casting issues.
Mexico is literally right next to the US, there are so many Mexican American actors they could have cast if they wanted
Bro this dude sounds like an anti-racist.
not to mention could you believe what would happen if a white or Japanese director making a story about Mississippi said "there weren't any good black actors..." the internet would cease to operate.
Danna Paola cantará pero actuar lmao
As a Brazilian, I was shocked that this won over "Im still here" for best International film.
I’m bitter it lost to “Sacred Fig”. The director is persona non grata in Iran for the crime of making it. Mohammad Rasoulof did not lose his country for THIS.
@@katherinelynch4193 As a brazilian, I would not be sad if "Sacred fig" won... But "I'm still here" losing for "Emilia Pérez" is just awful... Two beautiful films, portraying complex/inspiring stories, losing for this insanity is just outrageous...
@@julianozequinipolidoro6896It goes to show how superficial and dumb the awards are
as a latina woman, I have no notes. one of the worst oscar contenders EVER. what makes me even more angry is that we have a true latino movie right there (I'm still here) that was made by latinos and that portrays our real story with so much sensibility and beauty
I just hope the film doesn't get any Oscar love, cause this movie looks like hot garbage
Wow, this movie is a joke
What is the movie you speak of?
@@tomboyraider1015"I'm still here", a Brazilian movie. It's pretty good, you should def give it a try
@@tomboyraider1015 i am still here
A brazilian movie made with one of our greatest actresses and actor.
It is based on the real life story of a family torn apart by the military dictatorship we had here.
I am argentinian, but I can tell you that Emilia Pérez feels like a huge mockery of all Latin America. Hearing a non-Spanish speaker acknowledge the many problems of this film has restored my faith in humanity. Thank you very much.
🙏
That’s kinda ridiculous, since Mexico’s issues have little to do with Argentina’s 😅
@@Chrysobubulleyour comment is ridiculous, considering you’re not Latino
@@Chrysobubulle we're all latinos. we go through similar experiences and understand each other better. each country has its own unique culture and unique struggles as well, but still, we stand for one another. just by watching these scenes i can already see how this movie doesn't reflect real mexican struggles AT ALL. if you do a little research and inform yourself, there's no way you won't see the differences. so yeah, we might not go through exactly the same situations as mexico does, but that doesn't mean we won't show empathy or support. these issues could have all been avoided by actually listening to what other people have to say and acting based on their needs. and as latinos, we also wanna see latinos being well represented.
Only you Americans call South Americnas Latino. They're just South Americans for themselves.
5:13 it's not only distracting for native mexican spanish speakers, but for all spanish speakers. Never thought i would have to use subtitles for a movie in my native language
yo viendo pelis chilenas
Es increíble que nadie les haya dicho lo horrible que suena cada una de las palabras que gesticulan en ese supuesto español, se cargaron siglos de idiomas solo porque sí..
Soy uruguayo y muchas de las frases las tuve que buscar poque directamente no entendía nada de los que Saldana o Gómez estaban diciendo
This happened for me in Black Panther when they went to Busan cuz I didn't understand what the hell that "Korean" lady was saying. Hell, Lupita was *slightly* better than her
La escena de una canción de Selena Gómez dónde se la pasa diciendo bienvenida, no se si me falta contexto de la película pero parece que tradujeron "you're welcome" literalmente así que en vez de decir "de nada" dice bienvenida. Y siguiendo hablando de esa escena, el clip que ví tiene subtitulos en portugués que dan a entender mejor que esta diciendo Selena y no se nada de portugués
As a French person that happens to work in the film Industry (not in France) I am quite ashamed of what has been coming out of France for awards of late when France is capable of making truly amazing films. Jacques Audiard is a pretentious , pompous washed up director that has not made anything good in a very long time. It is a shame that most decent French cinema these days is French language only and seldom get international releases unless they get a Hollywood adaptation that ends up not being as good as the original half the time like Coda for example.
What do you think of The Substance? I think it was made by a french lady
coda est pour moi mille fois mieux que la famille bélier. et bon ton avis sur jacques audiard est loins d'etre unanime en france, étant tjr encore aujourd’hui considéré comme un génie par la profession.
@@zkme2734 Correct. She did a fantastic thriller in Revenge and mainly worked TV before bringing out a phenomenal second film in The Substance. It's a film that I can say finds the right balance of social satire and body horror to make it unique and effective.
@@theprowler18 Yes that is a great film ! It’s a shame that most mainstream awards seldom give awards to horror films these days other than in technical categories as there are some very good films in the genre.
I saw all the Selena Gomez fans defending her to death saying "she did the best with the time she was given". Wouldn't a mexican, as she likes to call herself so much, be able to speak decent spanish? Or at least take intensive classes? Seriously?
Also I'm calling on their BS on the Spaniard actors: for Cantinflas (2014) Oscar Jaenada, a spanish actor, had to learn the special pacing and mannerisms of Cantinflas, one of the most beloved comedians in mexican culture. He was hated when announced but his acting was so good he ended up being praised by mexicans and critics alike, aside of the poor rating for the overall film.
She's mexican in the same sense as irish americans are "irish".
If I remember correctly, it's said she wasn't supposed to sound fluent as a native but more like an American living in Mexico.
@@ssr2201makes no sense, her children spoke perfect spanish but she didn't... just don't hire her. Many mexican americans have a special accent, yes it is different, but not like this. Trataron de que a huevo tuviera sentido contratarla y ya 😂
@@ssr2201 if that's the case, then it also fails. Americans living here in México don't sound like that at all
Same with Benecio Del Toro right? I'm not Mexican but I heard he was convincing as Mexican in Traffic.
My dad, a Mexican man, said this was one of the worst movies he's ever watched.
Was he eating a burrito? With a moustache stealing a guitar?
well your dad has no taste.
@@johndean4727 I guess most of the people who watched the movie also have no taste 😂
@@johndean4727 pq? Simplemente pq no le gusta una película tan horrible
The ones defending this movie mustve thought The Marvel's was a masterpiece
I read about the "penis to vagina" song, and even after watching this video and learning it's entirely in earnest, I still can't believe it's real, let alone one from a movie that will most likely get many Oscar nominations.
Even the “I always wanted a brother” song from Mufasa: The Lion King sounded good in comparison to this, but that was horrible too.
I think someone in the audience is going to say
“Excuse me a moment” and then cut to a bathroom where they puked at the toilet over the disgusting words and acts people are forced to partake in.
Or do like Peter Griffin did and say “DONE”
And then walking off.
I laughed so hard at that clip. It’s so bad 😂
crazy. ick.
To be fair, that song now sticks to my head because of it being viral. Had the song changed to 'I want to know about straight people conversation" it would be a Rupaul lipsync.
Thank you for this video. Here in Mexico we just freaking hate this movie. It fails not only as a musical, but as a portrayal of our social issues. The dialogue it's not only terrible, but it sounds unnatural, we can't barely understand what Selena is trying to say and it's just deeply offensive in every other aspect. There are people trying to argue that we just can't handle foreigners talking about us but we have Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel (a french director too!) made back in the fifties, key difference is that he educated himself enough to made that film to the point that he literally had a career here in Mexico. And other mexican directors have tackled the drug and cartel problem in fiction even in the form of comedy movies like El Infierno by Luis Estrada. It feels like they are trying to gaslight us that this is a good film and valid representation when it's so far removed from our reality and that's why we can't accept it.
Luis Buñuel is from Spain
Los Olvidados is kino
@@franciscolinares4650 You expect intelligence from rabid whatever species this is?
Don't disagree with anything but Buñuel was basically Mexican so I don't feel like it counts. That's like saying Jodorowsky or Placido Domingo were "foreigners".
@@aR0ttenBANANA Basically, Luis Buñuel began his filmography in his home country (Spain) and continued it in Mexico, because he was fleeing the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
As a Trans woman and a Mexican woman LIVING in Mexico, all at the same time, LIVING CONSTANTLY IN FEAR OF THE CARTEL VIOLENCE, this felt like a punch to the guts, to the face and a obliteration punch to the chest.
Real
You're not a woman stop insulting us
I am so sorry that this movie was ever created. I am so sorry they made a mockery of it.
Tell ‘em sister!!
😢
I saw a review on letterboxd that said "every generation deserves their own Crash (2004)", which pretty much sums up this entire movie but also makes me nervous it could be the consensus choice when it comes to voting for best picture.
I don't think it will win. Sure, it will be nominated (which is bad), but I don't think it will win BP. If anything, it's either Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, or even Wicked. But imagine this... THE SUBSTANCE WINNING BP (I know it won't happen but still...)
@@m.syauqiabdurahman2798I'm sad because I'm sure Eggers' Nosferatu won't even be nominated for Best Costumes or Cinematography, because the Oscars are allergic to horror or smth.
Honestly, I've never seen Crash, and I don't know what it's about, but I have to assume it deserved Best Picture in 2004. People didn't make good movies until like a few years ago, and Crash is I assume still up to modern standards which says a lot, so I'm absolutely sure it was in at least the running for it. You can blame Wokeism that whatever shit movie did win wasn't Crash, especially since then and after Obama. Anyone who disagrees with me is probably compensating for something.
Edit: Huh. It was Lord of the Rings: Return of the King that year. Actually a great movie. But my point still stands.
@@samnelson7428 So you've never seen Crash, but you assume its still up to modern standards, and you assume it deserved Best Picture in 2004. Based on what??? How you imagined the film went in your head??? And then you blame Wokeism on whatever movie actually won, but when you go and look its actually a movie you like and you don't change your mind about anything you just said???
Crash is Citizen Kane compared to this dreck.
The Spanish writing in this movie is something out of ChatGPT
Maybe even worse
I think ChatGPT would come up with something more decent
I think the entire film is AI generated.
The entire script was most likely written in French and then poorly translated to Spanish and English.
I will stand up for the poor ChatGPT here. I translated the book I wrote in Polish to English and I have to tell you - the translation is quite accurate. More accurate then I expected.
By no means is it perfect, but it will save me years of trying to fully re-write it in English myself.
This film deserves only Razzie awards. It's awful.
@@Gee-xb7rt negative aura
I would love to vote
That would be great. The first movie to win an Oscar and a Razzie.
Unfortunately it is not mentioned in the Razzie ballots, but if they create a new category called “Most Overrated Film” Emilia Perez will win hands down
@giuseppeianniello1998 Yes. That would be a great category for it.
I HATED THIS MOVIE WITH A PASSION (Mexican girl here). The singing was terrible, AND THE SONGS THEMSELVES WERE SO SO SO SO BAD (also a lover of musicals). I hated this movie and I wished that I could unwatch it.
my gf also hates it with a passion lol
I tried to watch it twice, and I just could not get past the first 30 min due to how bogus it seemed. I love cinema and I wanted to get into it. Couldn't do it.
I struggled with this one. Literally was playing/stoping every half hour.
There was really no reason to make this into a musical....
The fact this is winning over Wicked blows my mind. I only heard like a 30 second clip of one of the songs and laughed hysterically. How insulting to even remotely call this trash a musical.
I don’t even trust the Oscar’s anymore. Fans seem more trustworthy with opinions than actual journalists and critics 😭
The fact that this film is quite high on Oscar prediction scared me. Like, if anything, please let the Best Director be: Baker, Corbet, Villeneuve, Fargeat, and Chu (I'm a Wicked fan and I loved Wicked so... CHU FOR THE GOAL!)
Super weird to have ever trusted the Oscar’s over intelligent public critics.
Not really, for the fans, movies like Avengers Endgame is a cinema masterpiece and one of the best creation of the history of art 🤡
A film that takes place in Mexico that centers around the Cartel is directed by a French dude I'm honestly surprised they didn't release this film on Cinco de Mayo
I find it hilarious that a lot of celebrities have praised this movie and everything about it. Meanwhile, people in the trans community as well as Mexican citizens hate this movie with the force of a thousand suns. That’s probably how you know there’s a bit of virtue signaling going on.
btw love thw cat
Ofc the celebs are praising it, gotta be on their good side.
I highly doubt most of those celebs watched the movie. They heard the Oscar buzz and are being fake.
I'm trans and a trans activist. I love this movie. Only american people hate this movie. I can assure you, in France there's absolutely no problem with it. Really weird how these anti-art takes are normal in America.
This moralistic vision has nothing to do with art. The lgbtqia+ struggle is about fighting in the streets and at the ballot box for concrete rights. It's not about hating a work of art as soon as the trans-identity isn't shown exactly as you want it to be.
Now, I don't know anything about Mexico so I can't speak on that, but for the trans part ? Nothing to hate in this film.
@@pinksnake8001 It's no surprise that france loves it. They aren't the norm
I know some mexican exchange students in my film class, and they said it's the worst movie they've ever watched, and that they were offended by how how they were represented in the movie
Idk, even James Cameron recommended it.
As a mexican I can confirm, specially with the spanish part, if they are not going to at least make it try to sound real, why bother trying to make it in spanish, like the only good spanish speaker has the thickest Costa rican accent ever and that would be perfect if the others actors at least sounded like they know wtf they are saying
@@Al1987ac all the Hollywood directors are trying to promote their buddy’s film
Hey at least there is no piss filter this time!
That's dramatic and kind of narcissistic.
I still am in shock this won over 'Wicked'. This is absolutely embarrassing and the award shows are a joke.
I felt in mourning when this film won over "Anora". And I haven't seen it yet.
All the other movies nominated were so much better than "Emilia Perez" and they should've won at least one or two awards
It's not any better than Wicked. Both are woke propaganda garbage with horrible, unremarkable songs.
@@daniboy4153 like, they have freakin Anora, Wicked, and The Substance (Which I personally think should've won even tho I loved Wicked) and yet... this won?
@@Winduct you lost me when you said "woke" mate grow up before its to late I also believed that shit when I was in highschool,as a college I learned is the same thing with the self insert stories,just assholes writting and directing stories,because on your logic "12 year slave" is "woke garbage" because we follow the story of a guy being brought to slavery out of his family but its bad because he is black,grow up.
Also I'd like to take a moment to poit out how offensive is the use of The Virgin of Guadalupe imagery in the film. Virgin Mary is a deeply important religious figure for Mexicans, like you see her in every corner here in México as a symbol of protection and hope. It would be one thing to criticize catholic conservative values, the church as institution, and the real connections they have with organized crime, but it's so disgusting to constantly see a violent psychopathic criminal compared with the most beloved and sacred religious figure of the culture you're trying to represent. Here in México, we don't simply treat drug dealers and/or social activist as religious figures. Like were not a buch of savages that treat as a divine Messiah some person just because they did some good for society. It's being really condescending to us, saying if some rich person does some activism, we will worship them because we're just that miserable
Remember Malverde? yeah...
As an Australian, I thank you for not butchering our accent as much as I thought you would 😂
It gets worse because this shitty movie will probably steal the Oscar for best international feature film from I'm still here.
Considering a certain orange's threats shouldn't Mexico not eligible for that award lol
And the other great contenders
And its ironic how a wonderful latino american film will probably have its award stolen by a stereotypical (french) movie about latino america 🤡
Trans agenda is the only reason this movie is getting accolades
As of now, yeah. It's got too much momentum and $ behind it to not get International and Original Song.
Thank you for pointing out the fact Emilia literally had a hand in the destruction and disappearances of Mexican citizens in the movie.
I felt like I was going insane when she decided to open their missing persons nonprofit WITH EMILIA’S LEFT OVER CARTEL MONEY. And the movie never really acknowledges that Emilia was the main source of all of those people going missing?
Like, the movie tried to make her seem like she’s trying to redeem herself, but it’s so hard when the main character doesn’t even acknowledge it herself + just literally tosses money at the problem to make herself feel better.
It's part of how the director is treating the character's transition as the death of the male past and the female being a new person. The trans and mexican community was a prop for this director's fantasy film. It may as well have been an anime series
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
@@eFrog27 wow anime series already sound better
This was my worst fear when I heard the premise. I can’t believe they just glossed over the whole cartel leader thing & tried to paint the title character as sympathetic.
This is male violence. You whitewash it by pretending it isn’t.
I think two changes could've gone a long way:
1. Make the main character an underling within the cartel rather than the cartel boss. Make them someone who hates killing but felt as if they had no choice.
2. Address the fact that doing some good now is not the same as getting a time machine and reversing all the bad things they did in the past. Dealing with this conflict head on would've made for a more compelling story.
Its adapted from a book, do you know what a book is?
@@Gee-xb7rt not the "redemption" part it ain't
@@hrocha3 its a work of fiction, are you mad at Wicked because there isn't a way to drop a house from Kansas on a witch in Munchkindland?
@@Gee-xb7rt Just because it's based on a book doesn't mean they have to follow it word for word. I don't even think it's a bad movie. I'm just giving my opinion on what could have been different. Do you know what an opinion is?
@@Gee-xb7rt *leader of ISIS transitions and changes life*
That's how dumb this premise is
I hate this movie. I don’t understand the hype for it at all and why it’s being nominated and even winning so many awards. The fact it won over Wicked at the globes is baffling.
Kenny and Spenny (two Canadian icons) wrote a movie about an American mobster who gets a sex change, becomes a woman and has to run the mafia that way now. They literally took the plot of their 25 year old comedy script and made it Oscar bait lol
It's absolutely insane how *no one* likes this movie, not Spanish speakers, not musical fans, not the trans community thet they so desperately tried to pander to, NO ONE, yet it still won.
It's Oscar bait through and through, like that stupid ass movie with Aragorn and Blade riding a car trying to be deep lol
You have a point, except one. Maybe Green book not that deep, audiences in the different countries like it very much. That’s why such big scores on sites. Emilia Peres don’t like anyone, except some critics, who know nothing about Mexico or trans-stuff, but like to be “progressive”
The only people that like this movie are people that vote in award shows
@@EmperorNeron44 still looking up scores on curated websites? 😂
selenators do 😭 or they pretend to
Common! Green Book is cool!
The Spanish in this movie is mostly gibberish and all of us Spanish speakers need subtitles to try to understand what are they trying to say.
It's like a Matt Stone and Trey Parker parody that some exec is trying to pass off as genuine
I'd love to see the same plot in an episode of South Park
@matman000000 The songs would be way better
An ironic twist is that at the 1999 academy awards, Matt and Trey showed up to the awards show in dresses, they were mocked
@@Shah-of-the-ShineboxApparently it was because they were high.
I think it's the first time the left and the right unite to hate a movie this much in a long time
I have not seen a single person talk positively about this movie. Trans people hated it. Mexican people hated it. Latino people in general hated it. People who like musicals hated it. Honestly, even the people in the movie seem to be having a horrible time
As a queer mexican I salute the true analytical effort you showed in here. This film is a travesty and truly offensive to mexican society in many levels (a lyric line sung by the families of the disappeared victims states they`re collaborating with the face-washing NGO of Emilia's because thusly they would get payback from society's mocking of their pain... I haven't felt such vitriol towards a movie ever and then this scene happened). It's really ennerving how inhumanly the white north looks at us.
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
I’m not Mexican but honestly yes!! It’s disgusting the way they look at non white folks . Only shows us that minorities need to stick together and forge against stuff like this .
Like there is no corruption in Mexico ? Why mexicans people cross the border to get in the US if it's not because the level of corruption of Mexican government.
You are the problem@@NNAATTYY1974
I wouldn't use this as an example of how anyone but Hollywood elites look at things. Hollywood has been offending normal people throughout the whole world for a long time. That most certainly includes the US. They are completely out of touch.
TERRIBLE MOVIE!!! the ¨Mexican¨actors were speaking spanish in a whole arrange of different accents none of them Mexican, it is revolting and incredibly pretentious
The screen writers probably assume that Spanish and Mexican Spanish are the same thing.
You'd think that (non-Mexican) Zoe Saldana would have learned to stop "appropriating cultures" (something they claim to hate!) after she played Nina Simone (in blackface and afro wig!!), but nope.
I was waiting for this comment. Zoe needs to be working at McDonald's
Who is they? And which "they" are you associating with Zoe?
I thought you people said you don't care about this kind of issue. Don't you people claim that all this cultural appropriation talk is just a fabrication by white liberals? When has Zoe ever commented on cultural appropriation?
Honey, get a life. You have been appropriating other cultures for your whole life no matter where you live and what you do
@@alexanderzhukov3773 The issue is the hypocrisy that it’s okay for her but not for others. Which is a valid complaint.
Correction: @4:10 Zoe Saldana speaks excellent Spanish. It is Selena Gomez, who had issues on that front.
But she plays an American wife so her spanish doesn't have to be perfect
@@alexanderzhukov3773 Yep. Just wanted to highlight that he mixed up the two situations.
Selena doesn’t speak like an American wife who learned Spanish, she speaks like a pop star memorizing a script.
no wait 1:46 that WAS REAL?
I'm sure this movie will win so many Oscars and I'm disgusted, because 2024 was a great year for movies. We had Dune part 2, Challengers, Wicked, The Substance, Gladiator II, Nosferatu, Conclave...I can't believe the Academy is going to reward this trash.
Watch "I'm Still Here" one more that is running for oscar with this movie and has a real purpose, tells a story and try to show something
Oscar's has a checklist of woke, from now on the wins are meaningless. This film is a perfect example.
You've listed movies that shouldn't be there.
Don’t forget Sonic 3, which btw was snubbed from even being nominated because, in the Oscars’ own words, “it didn’t meet diversity and inclusion standards”
@@evantgm1055 sure buddy
As a mexican Emilia Perez was one of the worst depictions of mexicans Ive ever seen.
Breaking Bad was more accurate, tbh.
@@davidbastardo4154 Breaking Bad also has some awful Spanish but it's unironically more accurate at least in the way cartels work
@davidbastardo4154 yes
Emilia Perez is not even a movie, it is a joke. As the director himself said, he did not even bother to analyze the reality of this problem in Mexico, he only used it to monetize at his convenience, it could have been better and without so much boring and unnecessary musical, as if dealing with issues such as cartels and the violence that Mexico experiences were something to celebrate or a reason for positivity, it could have been another more serious and profound point of view, but apparently they were just stereotypical words and that's it. me duele la pinche vulva? cringe af
Coco navigated Mexican culture much better than this 😂
Award shows have been nothing but hollywood masturbating to it's own image for decades now. The idea of rewarding talent has long since been forgotten. I hold that the only reason why award shows are watched by regular people is to watch the presenter roast the nominees and winners. There's a reason why the golden globe was presented by Ricky Gervais no less than seven times. It's because Ricky Gervais did mercilessly roast and call out all of these celebrities.
There's nothing wrong with giving out awards for excellence in a field, but to have a gaudy televised circle jerk every year (which happens for more than just film/tv) is too much.
That is not entirely true. There are also a lot of award shows that scam filmmakers from their money.
I have a massive issue with her faking her own death just to Mrs. Doubtfire her way back into her family’s lives, which you masterfully touched on. Also, why the fuck did she hire a lawyer for this? Seriously though, it makes no sense to me. The whole movie is trash.
whhen he said he knows everything he needs to know, he meant he knew the oscar checklist, and what to check to get an oscar
As a mexican person myself, I can't stop wondering of a ideal world were a movie like Sujo, wich is a mexican film shot in Mexico that is actually sensitive in its way to portraying the drug cartel culture and the issues that the people actually struggle with
Well,thanks for the recommendation.
@@kostantza1 you can also watch el infierno
how the hell did that movie win over “Wicked” 😭 Ariana and Cynthia put their heart and soul into the movie and musical numbers
Dune part 2? A movie with such an incredibly written sequel.
@@eshswam Dune wasn't wasn't competing in the same category as Anora, Wicked or Emilia Perez
@@eshswamdune wasn’t in the same category as those two movies, though. Not saying that Zoe Saldana doesn’t deserve the award, but Ariana should’ve won. At least in Wicked, you don’t have to hear about operations 💀
Plus Ariana and Cynthia CAN sing.
Most of Emilia Perez cast can not - including main character. Despite all other issues with that movie it is extremally unfair that it won AS a muisical. It is ridiculous.
@@ArthurDeaville Dune 2 should just win every award.
After I finished watching “Emilia Perez” I was left speechless, not because the movie left me emotionally motivated, it left me confused and frustrated! I just don’t understand what was the movie’s theme or overall message. Was it about regret, remorse, or atonement? Or was it overcoming adversity or that institutional oppression leads to the endless cycle of violence? I can’t understand what the film is trying to say because the film doesn’t know what it wants to say! There’s no central story and the main characters are one dimensional and defined by their physical identities, rather than their individualism!
It boggles my mind we’ve had one of the greatest films in recent times depicting Mexico’s violence and sad reality by a French director (Denis Villeneuve) with “Sicario” & one of the worst Oscar bait films depicting Mexico’s violence and sad realities by a French director. Que vergüenza.
Sicario is a better film on the border and cartels than anything EP could dream of
Denis Villeneuve is Canadian, maybe that solves your mind boggle
El infierno is better than Sicario, although both are excellent films
Zoe does speak Spanish well, but her Dominican accent kept slipping up and only half way through the movie she says “I was born in the DR” but she doesn’t say if Rita grew up there and also Rita’s parents are Mexican so it doesn’t explain her accent at all.
I don't like the term Oscar bait but this is on another level. This movie is made just for awards, they're not bringing attention to a real life issue, the Spanish is translated through Google and we (Mexicans and the tragedy of all the people killed by cartels) are just used as a lazy excuse to make it appealing for voters. It's like when people donate like one dollar to help kids in Africa and they feel better with themselves, but in this case it's people giving it awards
great metaphor
When I think of Oscar bait, I think of Maestro. The movie was less about telling the story of Leonard Bernstein's life and celebrating his accomplishments but more about giving Bradley Cooper a prosthetic nose in hopes of getting an award.
@ just like this movie isn't about cartel violence or trans people and more about having minorities in a screen so people can feel good about supporting a movie and calling it stuff like brave and groundbreaking from a completely ignorant point of view
This movie is the ultimate representation of how white liberals see other cultures just that this one is Mexican. Its point is to congratulate them for supposedly being educated about their knowing something about another culture.
On the bright side, Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here) will get an American wide release on Febuary 14th.
a nice valentine
Silver linings I guess
As a mexican i gotta say the Selena Gomez songs gave me a headache trying to understand what she was saying, not only for her accent, but the lyrics made no sense. It seems they wrote everything in French and put them into google translate. Besides, giving a cartel leader a redemption arc is honestly insulting after the hell real narcos had been putting us through for decades.
As an Argentine, I'm not surprised by Hollywood's poor representation. Anyone living in Latin America and watching U.S. movies knows this. They think they know everything and show things however they want. They don’t even bother to Google.
In a category that had The Substance, Anora, Wicked, Challengers, and A Real Pain, they chose the weakest movie
I think most of the love is for Zoe Saldana and Jacques Audiard to finally be recognized for awards
It legitimately would've been better if they nominated Mufasa: The Lion King over this. And even then, there were loads more better options than either film.
Anora or The Substance should've won. Don't care about Challengers because the weirdo director is a hack (the fact that he walked out when this "won," is fucking laughable!).
@wiinterflowers95 Wdym weirdo/hack? This is a genuine question TT... I was under the impression that he's a good director
Luca? Weirdo? Is it because of Call Me By Your Name?@@wiinterflowers95
The absolute state of modern cinema.
textbook DEI cinema for the history
Modern cinema in West
You guys made it this way.
Film is just reflecting culture.
And you guys have created a culture where it’s acceptable for men to feel entitled to women only spaces because they “feel” like they know the woman experience because they put on heels and badly apply make up.
And where just being mentally off is cause for applause and virtue signaling.
Saying things like “She has XY chromosomes” in the sports field.
But it’s a problem when a French man decides he knows what being Mexican is like?
It’s a problem when mediocre acting gets applause?
Why?
@@connergehdatbahng these series of comments is why I always delete these recommendations from my Watch History so that I don't have to see this sort of garbage content.
A lot of mexicans are getting pissed off with Guillermo del toro for being positive towards this thing
HE DID WHAT
NOOOO 😭
What?!
NOOOOOO NOT HIM 💔💔💔💔
Because it’s a beautiful moral tale and not a documentary lol
I would also love for people to address the transphobia in the movie, not just the racist xenophobia. It baffled me a trans woman is participating in a transphobic movie.
What is transphobic in EP? Have you seen the movie?
@@alexanderzhukov3773Did you see the video?
As a latin american, from what I saw in this video, it doesn't seem like it's racist xenophobia, it's more like... just plain ignorance and taking stereotypes as fact. It's like if I made a movie set in the US but filmed in Angola with only Angolan actors and made everyone wear MAGA hats and only eat burgers.
@@alexanderzhukov3773they’re virtue signaling
@alexanderzhukov3773 I have. I've seen it, unfortunately.
The trans experience is not just surgery and body parts as the movie continues to say.... And the trans experience in mexico... don't get me started. EP doesn't even address the horrible stigma trans people in my country live with. How they are killed on a daily basis, including the muxes (I'm not going to explain, I'm tired of explaining and educating. Your ignorance is not my responsibility) . "You change your body to society change" is the stupidest most transphobic motto of this movie. Not to mention reinforcing gender stereotypes (man=bad and violent, woman=good and nurturing) just for Emilia In the end to abuse her ex wife anyways..... I can't even stress all te transphobia enough... if you want to educate yourself, you will have to do so by yourself.
BRO! Descripting Crash as a sermon is SOOO on point. I watched that movie twice when I was a teen and both time I was just like "Well... that was a movie I guess?"
Los estereotipos no reflejan la esencia del pueblo latino. Todo el apoyo a la película I'm Still Here de Walter Salles.
IDK who is more offended by this movie, Mexican people or American people.
It's awful
Mexican People, they are literally fuming.
americans, they have a FAR greater capacity of being offended by things
Anyone, with a minimum de degree of taste, will and should be offended.
Looking at the comments everyone is offended by this
This movie went past my radar. Glad I didn't give it my time. This reminds me of that film school style of thinking where you take a bunch of broad topics that you care about, and turn the characters into vessels for those topics (as you said). I can't believe these scripts keep getting optioned. I really should just sell out, roll a set of topic dice and make some slop lol
Maybe you should support the message that all these groups are in danger because of Donald Trump instead of picking apart the movie looking for a deeper meaning or better production value. The messages that these groups are endangered and persecuted by people who live pretty good lives and are unaffected by these groups. And the fact that you take all your information about movies from this goof speaks volumes. Because he's not smart enough to realize it's the message of the movie and not the content of it that matters. Neutrality is weakness in times of great contest. And the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who choose neutrality during those times
@@matthew-jy5jp This is a movie that favors the characters traits as opposed to what they've actually done. The director/writers pulls punches when portraying the awful acts that the MC committed AND they pull punches when trying to explain modern LGBT experiences in a professional setting. This movie literally does play it neutral in order to get as large of an audience as possible and you grovel at its mastery. Thats gross. When you favor art over inserted messaging life becomes a lot more enjoyable.
@@Vlondeyou get all your opinions from UA-camrs?
@@matthew-jy5jp What kind of non-sense are you pulling here. You do not denigrate art to push a message. If you want to communicate to the audience about something you think is important, you tell a good story that anyone can empathise with. You do not just shove THE MESSAGE in the audience's face, you will just alienate even the people who were neutral and could have seen things your way. And name-calling will not do it either!
@@Vlonde 'This is a movie that favors the characters [sic] traits as opposed to what they've actually done'. BUT, what you do is what informs people about you character. And the movie does not pull punches, it's a full wet gaseous leak on the audience's face.
Everyone needs to see your video. The Emilia Pérez defenders need to be ripped of their delusion. As a Latino man, I agree with every single point you made.
I wish for the day for a mexicano to do a movie about french culture with a mime, a baguette, croissants, Ladybug, bad smelling, google translate and Emily in paris and see how México feels about esa porquería.
No need for a movie, there's already a Netflix show and it's called Emily in Paris
A movie about the average french man (hes from cameroon) picking up his social benefits while eating a baguette
Is not just an accent thing, is broken spanish, is not comprehensible.
@@Dirk_diggler97 Are they making a movie about America with broken english? Otherwise why the fuck should you even care
This person doesn't try to represent a native English speaker. Besides their broken English means this person knows more than one language (they're educated) unlike what the film portrays (a poor attempt of Spanish)
@@Dirk_diggler97 Oh yeah bc someone on the internet not knowing a language properly is 100% the same as a director making a whole ass movie in a language he doesn't know
One of the most jarring facts I've learned about Emilia Perez is that it hasn't even been released in Mexico!!! The people involved made about Mexico without even considering their reaction! It's appalling.
Someone on Letterboxd reviewed it best, "Like Ryan Murphy trying to direct an Almodovar move."
uuuuuu Ryan is way better than this, he chooses dope songs
Among a million other things, I specifically hate how this movie is titled after a persons name so everytime someone talks about it, it sounds like they're talking about a single person
GOLD
I mean, it's not like Emilia Perez isn't a horrible character, we all gotta act as if a head narco "deserves" to retire to a new life and whitewash her actions, pardoning gangmembers or releasing them as moles is controversial for a reason
I'm Mexican, born and raised, and believe me when I tell you that this is one of the best reviews I've seen about this movie. It basically covers all my feelings of when I watched it for the first time. Thank you for shedding some light on this topic.
I would add the following so that people from other countries could understand how we feel. Imagine if a director from another country chooses a deeply painful topic from where you live, for example school shootings in the United States, then chooses actors from a completely different country who don't even speak the language, never researches the topic and seems to scoff about it when he writes the script. On top of that, he makes it all into a musical, as if giving a less serious tone to a topic that hurts many families who have suffered its ravages.
I don't usually write my opinion, but this movie made my blood boil like no other so far, and leaving aside feelings I would feel ashamed to be part of something like that as an artist, whether as an actor, director or even costume and set designer. The ignorance surrounding first world countries when it comes to developing countries is painful; there are few cases of people who seek to go a little further and really understand these situations. Drug trafficking is part of Mexico, yes, but Mexico is not just about drugs. Hopefully that will become clear one day.
The directors “I know enough without research” is the same mindset I used to get a C in Stats.
French say this all the time about cultures
Absolutely awful movie. The message is your path to redemption is simple change your sex, even when you've been a vile character like the lead (cartel boss). It's sick!
message: just be rich
The path to redemption is recognizing your flaws and try to make things right even if no one will appreciate you. It is better to try rather than run in circles. It is hard but creating a better path is more important than destroying others that have done no harm.
After all, so called 'transition' can be considered as a form of sui cide. Still a man, though
That’s acceptable every other day though… with men being allowed in women’s prisons and celebrating men just because they say they “feel” like women, as brave.
What’s the problem now?
If this movie somehow wins an Oscar for Best Picture this year, this is gonna be like Crash, Shakespeare in Love, Green Book as the Worst Best Picture winner of all time.
Ugh, don't even suggest that man. I would truly be done with awards shows if this happens
@@theketaminekid1241 I think it's gonna be The Brutalist which will win Best Picture as they already won Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama, also the movie is made by A24 and A24 is always giving us good movies even with no much marketing. Hopefully The Brutalist won over Emilia Perez for Best Picture but I wouldn't mind if The Substance or Wicked also win.
@@theketaminekid1241 agree, those movie are still way better than Emilia
@@margarethmichelina5146 Hope the Oscar loves Conclave. Oh, and it's so sad that Emilia Perez will most likely win Original Song when Kiss The Sky from The Wild Robot is there.
@@margarethmichelina5146 I hope “Dune Part Two”, “The Brutalist”, or “Anora” wins.
They better get the right film or the ceremonies won’t matter in the end.
For the Selena character they could've cast Melissa Barrera who is a native Spanish speaker and is an amazing singer and actress.
It's amazing how this film has unified a sector of Latin America in hating a shallow and not researched portrayal of common issues that the region has suffered. I'm taking about all the themes in the movie
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Literally the French director used Google Translate to make this movie, his dialogues don't make sense, he couldn't get some people who speak Spanish to read the whole script, it doesn't make sense, like for example when Selena uses the word "vulva" to refer to the vagina, it was so anticlimactic and the dialogues are not understood.
The songs are horrible and each word used is not coherent with the other, having so many actors who participate in movies Hollywood who speak Spanish, but well, it does not surprise me at all, if the French believe that Mexicans do not have Internet, do not use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., that technology does not exist in Latam, that people do not have smartphones or iPhones, computers, laptops, that we live in the last century, That is to say, all the stereotypes that Hollywood has transmitted in its films.
Most Latino people who migrate to the USA do so because they do not have many economic resources and do not have opportunities in their places of origin, that is why they look for work in the USA thinking that they will live better but when they arrive they realize the reality that it is the same or worse for them because life is not easy there and they need up to 3 jobs to have just a little peace of mind.
The man said he already knew all that needed to be known. So, fk authenticity, I guess.
This is the arrogance that makes the industry increasingly unpalatable.
The older I get award shows get more and more boring, they mean nothing
Didn't Zoe Saldana do this same embarrassing thing with Nina Simone? Now this? Why?
I think everyone in Hollywood is trying to show versatility and geniality 😂.
Nobody wants to build a career... They want to show everything in just a couple of movies.
"I can dance, I can sing, I can cry, I can get angry, I can do stunts, I can fight, I can speak 3 languages, I can represent everything or everyone, I'm trans, I'm smart... I'm genius! I'm better than Glenn Close! I have an Oscar and she doesn't have any!
Awful!
All my respect to Glenn Close, btw! She is fenomenal and the academy sucks.
After she did blackface to play Nina Simone, she really should've sat down and get some DEI training.
She has a lot of time to kill between Avatar sequels I guess
@@satoshionamoto 🤣So accurate.
I don't blame her. This is the kind of stuff that wins oscar. She's oscar baiting.
Selena looks too young to play the wife, I honestly thought she was the main character’s daughter grappling with her dad’s sex change. And they just glossed over Zoe being an afro Latin woman. To have an afro-Mexican would be a big deal, hell Lupita Nyongo is Mexican and of direct African descent
Well, a cartel boss having a young wife is like the only accurate part of the movie actually. These people have like literal children on the streets selling drugs and trafficking them, they don't gaf 😭😭 if anything, she's too old
Thats the only accurate thing of the movie. The wife is always way more young, or somehow doesnt age at all
Hated how this robbed so many good movies like "Anora" and "The Substance", if "Emilia Pérez" wins anything at the Oscars too fck that
Dude, this movie sounds too much like a South Park episode, specially because it's a musical
@@danielmachado4389 they should make a parody. It will probably be better
>make bad movie
>its not going well on set
>crew is in a huddle at lunch, they're saying my name and laughing
>start to panic
>rewrite character to be transitioned
>people start calling me brave
>I feel brave
>see crew at lunch
>they invite me over
>producers and set designers telling me I'm a genius
>executives start talking about awards
is it really this easy bros?
It is! Gotta be a nepo baby though
>movie gets everything wrong about transitioning
>movie plays out almost every tired transmisogynistic trope
>movie somehow get awards in a year that saw trans cinema like I Saw the TV Glow
>actual real life trans women mock and tear down the movie on the internet
>cis people tell themselves what good allies they are for having made it
>cis people on the internet ignore how half the real problems with the movie tie back to how it portrays trans people in order to whine about diversity
"Should we give Wicked, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed musicals of all time, the best musical award? No! Give it to the cringe trans musical that nobody wants to watch. Take that, Trump!"
-Golden Globe voters
Or... They could've give it to The Substance
@@m.syauqiabdurahman2798substance was NOT better then wicked. Nor was this trash. Wicked is one of the best movies in the last DECADE
Here in México we have Cinepolis, it's the biggest cinema enterprise in the country. This company its trying to sell us this movie just because of the awards in the golden globes, and even bringing Guillermo del Toro saying praises of the movie. Here we love Guillermo, but knowing the back story of the director its like doble standards for him. In the end we all hate Emilia Perez.
I think Del Toro supports the film mainly because of his strict Netflix contract, not sure that would happen otherwise.
So gringos discovered that having a movie where every "mexican" character speak like Gus Fring doesn't really get good feedback
Sir you definitely understand a lot more than Audiard, you understand how this is a bad representation of Mexico, how it is an oversimplification of a terrible problem that is causing a lot of pain and damage to Mexico and the world, how it is absurd to pretend that "Manitas" transitioning to "Emilia" washes away all his crimes, and how a Dominican, a Venezuelan, a Spaniard and a Mexican American are not the same as a Mexican.
Wicked got robbed at the Globes losing to this trash. Ariana definitely should have won over Zoe.
I think Margaret qualley should’ve won that year
@@allys744 I saw the Substance. Ariana definitely gave the best supporting actress performance of the year, imho. She was a triple threat.
Her acting in the intro when she pretends to be happy while she's actually grieving of her besties' death and even singing the high note to cover her sadness is so good.
At least we can find solace in the fact that Wicked made a whole lotta money
Emilia Perez is a gold mine of unintentional humor we Mexicans should just point the absurdity of it paroding it to death until it's stupity gets hard to ignore, now we have or own The Room," I did not hit her"
vagina to penis, penis to vagina?
I feel like this movie is most likely going to garner the same level of unintentional hilarity as the room for the “I want to learn about sex chang operations” song alone!
@jmann6130 agreeeee
I'm not Mexican, but I'm a native Spanish-speaker and Selena Gómez' speaking parts have become a meme here in Latin America due to how bad she speaks, though in her defense it seems her character is not supposed to be a native speaker, but I think they should have her just speak in English
Also, the movie was criticized by some Mexican actors icluding Eugenio Derbez, who himself is a somewhat divisive figure, but even his detractors have agreed with him
Wait, this won over Wicked in the musical category?! Unbelievable.
Great video, BTW.
it wasn't just horrible as a movie but also as a musical, the songs and the singing are... interesting... I was very shocked it won over Wicked which is a WAY better musical
I'm glad to see that not all the english speakers consider this movie a contender for the Oscars. It Is a disgrace and an insult which ignores how serious the drug traffic really Is.
Everyone knows Selena Gomez is a less than mediocre singer and not as good of an actress, but oh boy… she truly takes being untalented to a whole new level on this movie…
That’s an OPINION, not a fact!
I disagree. She is a good actress.
Given how much of this movie's badness can be accredited to the director's incompetence, I'm trusting that Selena's acting is also a victim of that. She's been decent and even good in other projects, the common denominator is this movie's director
I didn’t actually see this movie so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but from what I’ve seen about this movie it falls into all of the tropes of so called “groundbreaking trans representation” that cis people love and makes trans people cringe. The one thing they did right was having a trans actress instead of a cis one, but that’s a somewhat low bar at this point. It just annoys me so much to have cis writers/directors peddling this idea that “all can be forgiven if you’re trans” bc that’s NOT how most of the community thinks and it doesn’t help humanize trans people in the slightest. Like, the solution to a minority group being villainized isn’t to go “so what if they’re bad people? They’re trans!”, it’s to understand that trans people are HUMANS and can be good or bad just like anyone else. When I transitioned, what helped my mom really accept me is when I told her “I’m not a different person, I’m still your kid and I always will be”, bc it’s TRUE. You don’t switch personalities when you transition!
It’s also a weird form of gender essentialism to say “men are bad/evil and women are gentle/good”, it’s one of those things that a liberal Hollywood person might *think* is woke but it’s just a different way of upholding gender stereotypes rather than breaking them down. It’s all just… mind numbingly stupid. (Also I heard that the trans woman character dies at the end? If that’s true, it’s another stupid trope that cis people looove to call deep and meaningful even when it’s the most basic tragedy porn you can think of)
it makes me sad as a member of the lgbt to not be able to support and be excited about this film. but i meannn, this is just the shallowest trans storyline i’ve seen in years. there was good bones with this film however it got so lost in the sauce. really at the detriment of every one of the films messages
I used to hold more respect for the Golden Globes. They hired Ricky Gervais again and again to properly maim the industry. But when I saw the Hollywood Foreign Press slobbed over this trash and completely ignored Dune part 2... Shame. Dune part 2 is an absolute masterpiece. Zendaya aside, every player (on both sides of the screen), deserved a nomination. The Brutalist was amazing too. But Dune part 2 was absolutely perfect. And the most watchable film ever made. The script adaptation. Direction. Cinematography. The score. Which was absolutely unfairly disqualified.
Sorry, but Zoe and Selena agreeing to a film directed by a white man choosing not to research another culture? Nah, the ladies threw away their Latina cards
Go look at what she did to play Nina Simone. Your culture is my costume is her motto 🙃
selena gomez is not latina she is spanish
@@hurremhightowerher grandparents are from Mexico lol. She, like many 2nd or 3rd gen folk, spoke Spanish as a child and then lost her language growing up.
Your framing is kind of weird. As a white latin american (german ancestry), the dichotomy between latina and white here is... weird. "You can't be tall because you're skinny" sort of weird. I blame Zoe and Selena for not being actually spanish speakers and pretending to be as much as the director. They have sins of their own beyond working with someone who has no idea what they're doing.
@@shortdrink873 So like "irish americans", not actually irish.
Many people say this is 2024’s Crash and/or Green Book. I’ve watched video essays from Mexican content creators, and in reading the comments in those videos, there’s a VAST and guide spread sense of disrespect from Mexicans and the Latinamerican community at large. How Hollywood is always pandering about “inclusion”, and how “progressive” they are; but it only seems to matter in a cherry-picking manner, which makes it incredibly performative.
The casting director said how “authenticity and representation” mattered when it came to a trans woman impersonating Emilia, but what about Mexican representation? I guess then it doesn’t matter? Right, because it isn’t a hot topic you can use to pat yourself on the back and virtue signal about how inclusive you are 👈🏼 this makes it incredibly dishonest, hypocritical, performative and disrespectful to all minorities, even the ones they bothered themselves with including, like the trans community. Because they’re being used as a vehicle, as means to an end, not because Hollywood genuinely cares about them. That’s disgusting. You care about inclusion or you don’t. But cherry picking when it matters, and when it doesn’t, shows what they’re truly about.
It's really satisfying as mexican filmmaker see people frome other countries involved in cinema realize this movie is actualy an incompetent, ignorant, pritensiuos, eurocentrist middle finger to Mexico that doesn't care a shit about the real huge problem the cartels, insequrity and forced disappearances represent (especially in Jalisco state, wich I am from).
Starting off the film with an unrelated mariachi band kinda sets the tone for the rest of it.
Bro, I've never seen you before in my UA-cam, nor do I even know Emilia Perez even existed. I do not really give an F about the Oscars. Idk why you were on my recommended, but I tapped out of curiosity. 4 minutes in, I paused the video, liked it and subscribed to you. This is the only video of I've seen of yours and it has truly captivated me. I wish I could explain things as beautifully and precisely as you did. Keep up the good work mate.
So refreshing to watch at least Mexicanamericano youtuber telling the truth about both this horrendous film as well as Brokeback Mountain´s disgraceful snub for Best Picture