Emilia Perez? Yay or nay?
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Anonymous
Exactly. I’m the PP who voted NAY and I’m a Latina who is offended by the director’s callous approach to the topic, culture and people of Mexico. |
Anonymous
| I just now watched this and OMG. Wth did I just see and how on earth has this been nominated for any awards? What a train wreck, from start to finish. |
Anonymous
| PP again. Forgot to say, if this wins an Oscar, I will be so disgusted. Reminds me of Poor Things in its inanity. |
Anonymous
I read an article that was not about this movie but it mentioned the movie and said something to the effect of everyone pretending it's good and that told me everything I needed to know. |
Anonymous
If this wins, everybody will know why. This kind of senseless promotion based on gender identity alone is what got us into the mess we're in. |
Anonymous
| The “musical” aspect was beyond awful. I was willing to give it a chance - seemed like an unusual premise, to say the least. But the music was terrible, the lyrics idiotic, and the “dancing” embarrassing. I can’t even believe this thing has already won awards. |
Anonymous
| Couldn't finish it. The premise was stupid, the acting was awful, and the musical numbers were pathetic. You'd have to be beyond woke to find it anything other than cringe-inducing. |
Anonymous
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My DH and I enjoyed it. But can see how Mexicans/ Latinos could be offended by the negative stereotyping.
It reminded us of Latino magical realism (such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende) in movie version. So it actually rang true for us in the sense of this style being a thing in Latino art and cultures. We also quite liked the music and dancing. Selena Gomez was surprisingly good on her role. |
Anonymous
She might not win if they want to being up his old tweets about George Floyd if they want to get political and all. |
Anonymous
^*bring |
Anonymous
I thought it was an interesting concept but the musical stuff was so badly done. It’s like the opposite of hamilton — the lyrics are not clever, no musicality and the singers weren’t very good. (Main actor has a terrible voice. I assume Selena can sing but she had nothing to work with.). I watched it in Spanish and the lyrics weren’t good in Spanish either. I also thought it was pretty flip — there’s a line in one of the songs about people wanting to be forgiven and wanting to forgive and I thought — do the families of students killed and out into vats of acids to disappear in the desert really just want to forgive? Seems unlikely. It all made me uncomfortable. I thought the acting was good though. And Selena looked amazing. (Minor point but Zoe was a lawyer in the initial scenes and so was so badly dressed with awful hair — no way a high end Mexican defense attorney would dress like that, even as a young associate.) |
Anonymous
| I hope the man doesn't win. |
Anonymous
| NAY. Big ol' NAY. |