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.
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Last December I went to a movie theater for the first time in 20 years (last time was Passion of the Christ), to see a revival of the 2013 Studio Ghibli Princess Kaguya, which I really enjoyed on the big screen. I guess that means I haven't watched a nominee in a very long tim.
I wonder what its version of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair was?! I'm Gonna Surgically Excise the Man I Am Right Out of Me?!
That must have been, oh, twenty viewers at least!
I hope it wins Best Picture.
I’m still hooked on sports - got the golf on in the background right now. But I watched some of the Golden Globes as I thought some questions might come up in our weekly trivia contest. I only recognized titles of a couple of nominated flicks and TV shows. And that’s a good thing!
those films are among the greatest ever made, and many are my children's favorites. "Avatar" blatantly ripped off two Miyazaki films.
The Oscars has become an alphabet cluster “F”ing of Hollyweird below the belt back slapping.
NOT WATCHING TONIGHT-—
PERHAPS NEVER AGAIN-—
AND I USED TO WORK IN HOLLYWOOD.
NOT WATCHING TONIGHT-—
PERHAPS NEVER AGAIN-—
AND I USED TO WORK IN HOLLYWOOD.
This is what happens when you issue a Hollywood wide edict that says you have to trans up every movie you make. You get some half-hearted attempts that include token characters. That having been said, I’ve not seen the movie nor do I plan to.
I would much rather see them be the “last”.
Oh bosh!
The “trans” movement destroys children, and turns children’s hospitals into houses of horror!
Normal people (especially Christians) do not want to see disgusting “trans” or “gay” films, and such films do not deserve Oscars or other honors.
And Mexicans and other Latinos deserve to be represented by a much higher class of films than this perverted peice of filth!
OH, so now men dolled up to look females can have the
the word "actress" applied to describe them; asserting
that they are female. In any other situation, the neutral,
ambiguous word "actor" is to be used to describe
a female. In the past it was "actor" for a male and "actress"
for a female.
The brain-washing attempts by wrecking the English
language is still an on-going operation by the
crazy Left/homosexual "community."
Agree!
See post 14. chajin has been at work on it.
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