Posted on 03/02/2025 10:14:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
By most accounts, the Oscar-nominated “Emilia Pérez” is a terrible movie. Mexican critics panned the film’s portrayal of cartel violence, while trans critics hated how gender transition was used as an empty plot device with a highly inaccurate depiction of the medical process of transitioning. And yet the musical has been nominated for an incredible 13 Oscars, the most of any film this awards season. With an audience score of 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s clear almost everyone hates this movie, it seems, except for Oscar voters.
In the casting respect, at least, "Emilia Pérez" gets it right, having cast trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón in the lead role as a trans woman. She is up for best actress in this year’s Oscars, but her chances of winning are complicated by a series of offensive tweets about Muslims and George Floyd that surfaced from years ago.
It bothers me that “Emilia Pérez” is getting so many flowers this year while films like “I Saw the TV Glow,” an incredibly produced and nuanced horror film from A24 that tells an allegory about being in the closet as a trans person, has gone widely ignored (even, shockingly, by the GLAAD Awards). “I Saw the TV Glow” connected viscerally with nearly every trans person I know who saw it, and it was directed by nonbinary director Jane Schoenbrun.
“Emilia Pérez,” on the other hand, perpetuates a lazy trope about the trans experience that feels especially harmful in the present political climate.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
” She was the first openly transgender Capitol Hill reporter in U.S. history.”
What is with these people and their ‘firsts’? Who cares?
This is a musical? Looks like we have come a long way from “South Pacific” and “Fiddler on the Roof”.
As if I needed it, here’s another reminder why I shouldn’t waste time and money on going to the movies anymore.
Trans trumps (pun intended?) black and for now, muslim.
Most honest reviews of this movie say its awful. It has a 16 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Coming to terms with the post-election vibe change, the Academy realized there was a very real risk of Hollywood icon Demi Moore losing to a dude in a dress so they'd better dig up some old tweets.
For now in America. Islam has something to say about that in the future.
“This is a musical?”
indeed ... my first WTF thought too?
my ideas of musicals are “Music Man” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” ... even “Cabaret” and “Chicago” ...
my ideas of musicals are “Music Man” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” ... even “Cabaret” and “Chicago” ...
And The South Park Movie.
Sounds like a perfect Oscar candidate. It may win. Word on the street is that some of the Academy voters were so disgusted they're not even voting.
Did it get nominated for all these Oscars because of this transgender storyline?
Was Hollywood hoping to make a statement as this person playing a transgender character is transgender in real life?
But then is all that thrown out the window. Because this individual made disparaging remarks about other protected classes of people?
This is amusing because Hollywood prides itself on being tolerant and liberal. This sort of situation must tie them in pretzel like knots.....
Wow, sounds like box office gold if every trans person goes to it.
Yes, any of those would be fine.
I'm gonna wash that trans right outta my hair,
I'm gonna wash that trans right outta my hair,
I'm gonna wash that trans right outta my hair,
And sent [insert pronoun] on [insert pronoun] way!
Trans ACTOR.
NOW we can use the word “actress”? I thought that was sexist.
They could bring back “Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde.”
I am proud to say this is at least the 5th year neither my wife nor I have seen a single one of the “best picture” nominees. Now if only I can totally quit the MLB and NFL (made progress last year and only watched some playoffs after skipping regular season for the 1st time).
Well done!
Hey Katelyn it's just a movie - and a very sh*tty movie at that - so save your kvetching about its depiction of your mental illness.
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