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Now the hype has passed with the film awards season. It's funny how the same film goes from being applauded for more than 12 minutes (at the Cannes Film Festival) to being the very representation of the ‘devil’ on Earth. And all in less than a year. Opinions, arguments, opinions, more than controversial statements, tweets that leave little to the imagination and the entire hate of a country (Mexico) that sees in the plot of this film (entirely French production. Yes, French!) a characterisation of evil in musical format...
Emilia Pérez, a film, a name, an anti-banality movement? A lot has been written and published here and there. There are not many opinions in favour of this feature film produced and distributed by Netflix..... Personally, I detest this genre. I don't feel the slightest attraction for this kind of cinema but I also hate that they play with my preferences. And I'm afraid, with Emilia Pérez, a lot of hate in the form of a marketing campaign has treated each and every one of us.
Nevertheless, I do want to highlight one aspect that I think is key to understanding why in 2 weeks nobody seems to have heard the name of this film before..... The director, screenwriter, producers and, above all, the technical crew know absolutely nothing about the country in which the film is set. Can you imagine a South American (always referring to the film crew and technical crew) developing a film about France occupied by the followers of a certain Austrian painter, in a superficial and disrespectful historical, cultural and social way? The scandal would be epic and bizarre...
Missing persons in Mexico due to the armed conflict by the drug cartels, the violence and corruption that are part of the life of millions of people in that country; is such a delicate and serious subject that to trivialise it with a story of trendiness, misapplied and misunderstood transsexualism, and to top it off, erasing even the use of the language (Spanish) spoken properly in the film's dialogues (which is a total disgusting intonation and pronunciation) are too heavy a burden for a culture so rich and so beaten by biased and scatological visions, as the final result we see in Emilia Perez.
Trust me, watching how the Academy Awards are preparing Zoe Saldaña (who is a phenomenal actress) for Best Supporting Actress, and also for Best Song, was a blow to the liver.... There is no logical or sustainable explanation. I insist, you can't trivialise certain subjects. Terrorism, genocides, forced disappearances and extreme violence are issues that destroy societies and lives in an irreparable way... And the final product, what you and I have seen with this film, is something we would hardly want to witness again. So, is the hate for this film deserved? I'm not one to say so, but I'm sick and tired of our stories being told by people who don't understand what they're talking about. Literally and figuratively...
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