IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - NETFLIX has tried to silence me for calling out racism from the star of their so-called ‘trans movie.’ I'm absolutely LIVID. The version of this video that was supposed to go live included a last-minute section I added about Emilia Perez’s lead trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon’s resurfaced racist, Islamophobic, and violent tweets from 2020 and 2021. In Spanish, she wrote things like: -“Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.” -Calling George Floyd a ‘drug peddler’ that ‘no one really cared about.’ -Made racist statements about Guillermo del Toro after he won the Oscar for Shape of Water. -Made racist and anti-Asian posts after Bong Joon-Ho after he won the Oscar for Parasite. -Among numerous other racist things, with a lot specifically towards Muslims. I edited and uploaded that version, but Netflix hit it with a copyright strike before it could go live, forcing me to take it down. This wasn’t just a claim-it was a STRIKE, which could delete my entire channel-my livelihood. I already had one last year for calling out Matt Walsh’s hateful transphobia. The more I speak out, the more my channel is threatened. Netflix weaponized copyright to silence a trans critic for exposing Gascon’s racism-all to protect their so-called “trans representation” movie, which, as I discuss, is harmful to trans people and considered racist by many Mexican people. I am furious but not surprised by this blatant hypocrisy. Given the state of the world, I do not have the emotional capacity for kindness right now. This is unacceptable, gross, disgusting behavior. Luckily, this older version was already uploaded, so it survived. However, it’s MUCH lighter on Gascon, as it was edited before these revelations. The deleted version had much stronger words. But make no mistake: Netflix tried to threaten my livelihood. Gascon’s tweets are linked below. Read them. Share them. Make noise. And if you want the UNCENSORED version-the one Netflix tried to erase-it’s on my Patreon and Nebula. Support me there, where my work isn’t censored by corporations pretending to support us while actively silencing and attacking us. Please share my videos. I won’t be ashamed to say I need financial and vocal support. I don’t know how much longer I can do this-to make my art, to pay my bills-because TH-cam and the US is NOT safe for me now. - nebula.tv/jessiegender - patreon.com/jessiegender - x.com/KindaHagi/status/1884980574865232056
That's awful and I hope you can ride this out! Sidenote: Can anyone source the part about her talking against Guillermo del Toro and Bong Joon--Ho? I haven't been able to find those tweets. Not doubting Jesse, just haven't found them.
Wow I only learned of the existence of this movie yesterday, and already it's SO MUCH WORSE than I could imagine. How did this get made?? Did JK Rowling fund it??? WHY IS EVERYTHING BIZARRO WORLD RIGHT NOW????
lol, i'm a spanish speaker, and i just wrote my own comment mentioning how this movie is on the same level as saying "konichiwa arigato!" to a japanese person or going "oui oui bagette" to a french person.... it really is that level of bad. i don't care if neither the director nor selena meant ill with it, they are adults and proffessionals in this industry. not kids, and not hobbists. they should know better. it really exudes of privilege and internalized racism. in fact? you know what? someone should go up to this ass of a director and say "oui oui baguette", they would be my hero.
Someone on a comment section put it the best way I've seen: "Imagine a French guy did a movie about 9/11 telling the story of Lin Baden, a trans woman who used to be a terrorist. Then turned it into a musical, didn't have a single American actor in it, and all the songs are google-translated from Mandarin and sung with a feigned Scottish accent. That's how Emilia Pérez felt to Mexicans."
There is a movie like that. A mexican and trans creator made a short film in response to Emilia Perez, its on yt: Johanne Sacreblue. Its so fun, they filmed it in like 2 days!
As a french viewer, i want you to know that french trans activists also talked how bad the movie is for representation. We are honestly tired of old man like Jacques getting hype over that subject.
like I get the director thinks Mexico is the most dangerous country in the latin America (to be fair to him, it probably is) but to water down the ENTIRE Country to just drugs is wildddd
Jessie wasn't even threatening to leave México with the children. She was gonna move to a neighborhood like 15 minutes away. It doesn't make sense, but they didn't bother to check a map.
Exactly! I think it’s absurd that what triggers the final conflict of the movie is Jessie wanting to move her family from one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Mexico City to the other wealthiest neighborhood in Mexico City, which are within walking distance of each other 🙄
YES!! I was losing my mind when Emilia started asking if there were “good schools” in polanco like… they’re moving right next door why would they change schools 😭 None of these people have ever been to Mexico City and it shows
finally someons in teh same page as me! not many people talk about that. Like, girl, you literally faked your death for YEARS and you're currently going as your cousin instead of telling the truth. She should've been honest with her kids and wife about his identidy from the start
As a trans Mexican woman, yeah this movie is beyond offensive, specially given the violence and death that plagues Mexican society at the hands of cartel, the same criminal groups that are funded, armed and sometimes trained by "western" countries, is totally trivialized, like "this is normal in Mexico/latin America", is the same racist/classist world view that global south countries with majority brown population somehow "desserve" or "cant help but" living in such violent conditions being victims of war and instability, depicting our governments as "inherently corrupt" while ignoring that in countries like the US, corruption is literally LEGAL, is just the classic white-centric view of Mexican stereotypes that they just refuse to even question or investigate at all. PD: BTW it isnt surprising that actors like Eugenio Derbez, and even directors as Guillermo del Toro praise this movie, they come from a long tradition of racist and classist Mexican cinema, havent you noticed how the most notorious Mexican actors/directors are almost all of them white looking? Mexico is 70% brown yet all the faces you see on TV or cinema are mostly white, it is a legacy of colonialism that we havent fully overcome in Mexico.
Yeah, like, most of our cinema industry is just plain racist and insanely classist with just a touch of nepotism. As someone from Mexico City who went to private schools and was classmates with children of actors more than once, their world view is fucking insane, very much in line with other white classmates from privileged backgrounds and insanely isolated from the real Mexico.
I finally saw Alfonso Cauron's first film Solo Con Tu Pareja and it was a breath of fresh air to just see a silly comedy set in Mexico city and it not be all cartel or all violence and sadness which as a white brit is most of what I see when Mexico is portrayed in media in English or the handful of things that cross over
And the fact that pretransition Emilia is portrayed as a brown indigenous man, when most cartel leaders are white nepobabies and pretransition Karla looked just like most cartel leaders do white and blonde.
As a Mexican, I can tell you that this is true and very curious... our cartel leaders are never as brown as Manitas. So there is racism and colorism everywhere.
And I never thought "Emilia" was really trans -- just a killer trying to hide his real identity, not live any kind of more authentic life. Only the criminality was authentic. And even after the many Instant Surgeries, Emilia is still the same brutal criminal sadist (now to her own immediate family) that Manitas was before. Is the movie -- or the audience -- unaware of this, uh, "character flaw" in the movie's central plot device? I couldn't wait for the real Emilia to be exposed and get her comeuppance (I saw the movie through the lens of "Scarface" and "The Magnificent Ambersons"). Instead, she basically gets away with murder... until she doesn't.
It's interesting because a lot of the syndicates have a strange relationship with race/colorism & the way "darker" is coded more masculine; like is it them performing hypermasculinity by affecting rurality; is it the state playing into colorism with how they show the leaders... & then the fact that skin color changes based on light (& sunlight exposure) so like El Chapo when extradited after incarcerated, is more white passing than he was when he was at large... Like part of what got Barbie his nickname was that he was white by American standards
You could definitely be on to something but I just think Manitas maybe looks a bit darker because he was always in really dark lighting. It’s the same actress, I don’t think her skin tone changed between scenes. And there’s a much smaller pool of experienced trans women actors to choose from, they probably selected her for her talents rather than to be a realistic representation of most drug cartels. I can easily see how subconscious biases could have gone into the direction and makeup/lighting though, this kind of racism is definitely deeply ingrained
The director could have made a musical about a French crime lord that wanted to transition and escape the underworld and start anew. There was no need to use Mexico and the Spanish language as a backdrop.
I agree. The basic premise could have been interesting and explored interesting themes. No need to set it in Mexico. But the choice to set it in Mexico is emblematic of the problems plaguing this movie.
It was set in Mexico to avoid people on the way to see it thinking: "Gender-confusion, mobsters, French? You know, let's re-watch Victor/Victoria instead".
"I'm still here", the actual latin-american movie made by latin-american people, just released in North-American cinemas, I'd recommend watching that instead of Emilia Perez. It is a very needed movie in the moment, as it grapples directly with the efffect a disappeared person has on a whole family, which happened by the thousand during the fascist military dictatorship in brazil in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Emilia Perez pretends to care about disappeared persons, but only uses it to signal that Emilia wants to be a good person who does good things instead of focusing on this very large and serious issue. This movie is completely about it, it is based on a nonfiction book written by the son of the family (for most of the movie, he is just a little boy), and it’s tremendously well made.
With the nomination of that in Best Picture and the exclusion of singing the Oscar nominated original songs live, there must’ve been Academy members who saw EP and tried to do something about it, but were too late, so tried everything in their power to make up for it with the aforementioned nomination and cancellation. Sidebar: I’m I the only one who feels like Sing Sing was going to be a Best Picture nominee before the deadline time extended? Folks must’ve sought out I’m Still Here after Fernanda Torres’ surprise Golden Globe win and, when they watched it, they actually gravitated positively toward the flick more than they expected aside from just being a Best International Feature Film nominee. With that, they unintentionally knocked off Sing Sing at the last second (making it more apparent in how it should’ve knocked off EP in return, even having not seen the latter flick).
While I'm glad that "I'm still here" managed to get the best picture nomination despite the existance of Emília Perez and that it's a historical nomination, the first time a brazilian movie has ever been nominated for Best Picture, the fact that Emília Perez is still in the list of nominations leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. It would make for a much better Oscar if Sing Sing had gotten the nomination instead of Emilia Perez, specially considering how much an Oscar nomination acts as a marketing buff to get a movie in more theaters and therefore, to get more people to see it. Sing Sing could-ve really benefited from that even if it didn't eventually win the oscar.
@@republicacoesWith the exception of Clarence Maclin for Best Supporting Actor (who should’ve been nominated over Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown and I haven’t even seen either flick), it got all of the needed nominations to get Best Picture along with passionate support from other filmmakers to give ‘em that accolade.
As a Latin person who witnessed gang violence against my neighbors, and had relatives die to it, I do not think I'd be too happy if a former cartel leader was presented in the light that this movie is presenting.
This fiction of Mexican drug cartels is so mythologized it took me the longest times to connect it to the local drug gang violence that surrounds my own city here in Lat America
@@srtatropicalia They make it seem like a romanticized mafia style thing in media, when in reality it is a brutal gang of thugs with zero regard for human life and human suffering.
like I get the director thinks Mexico is the most dangerous country in the latin America (to be fair to him, it probably is) but to water down the ENTIRE Country to just drugs is wildddd
as soon as emilia mentioned HRT, i said 'and no one noticed? for 2 years?' and i kept making this joke until the final scene with her. the idea of disappearing as one gender and reappearing as another is a fantasy i've had to avoid the inevitable awkwardness of socially transitioning... which is why it would have been so interesting to actually explore the consequences of emilia wanting parts of her old life after enacting this fantasy. that could have been the main plot thread, rather than the identity ones. you could have kept a similar plot with less transphobia. it's absurd to me.
@@mackie490 In her coming out video I think I remember her saying something to the effects that she had come out way earlier to close family and friends. Pretty sure she didn't go into details
If the Academy really, _really_ wanted to honour a French-made film that's set in a completely different country and follows a woman as she secretly undergoes a major physical transformation, they should have nominated _The Substance_ for more things.
The Substance was such a good film. As a person with a pretty strong tolerance for body horror in fictional media, I just LOVE the slow build-up in this movie. Of course it starts pretty strong with how the second body is made, but the real scares don't start happening immediately. That and as a metaphor for the media industry and the fear of aging- both as a social horror (how other people and society will treat you differently in old age) and as a body horror (the changes to your own body and the growing fragility, physical limitations, and potential mental decline)- it's effective in what it sets out to convey.
@@tendreverveine2553 British and French. Mubi was its US (and UK) distributor. Also, I said "French-made" because it was written and directed by a French person.
But they where no Mexican and Trans actors good enough to be cast! I mean if the cast director said it, it must be true right? they wouldn't lie to us * Just fyi is sarcasm *
omg i just commented that someone should go up to the director and be like "oui oui baguette" in his ear. i didn't know this version of the movie existed, i need to look it up. The spanish in this movie is so bad that it genuinly is offensive, same level as going "oui oui baguette sacrebleu" to a french or "arigato konichiwa!" to a japanese person and be like "i totally speak french/japanese
ewww oh my god,,,, im so sorry about him, this guy sucks (saying this as a french person) I haven't gone to the cinema recently but i swear they could've just found better french cinema to nominate,,,
@@YouAreDreamingRightNow where's the racism? There are plenty of African countries which have French as the official language and have been institutionalized into poverty by colonialism
It's not like Mexico has it's own film and tv industry, or that Los Angeles is ~15% Mexican descent. Nah, clearly no Mexican actors exist, they *had* to look elsewhere /s
Ngl it smells like a "we couldn't find any actors/actresses who would do it for basically free": it's either that they saw the script and went "haha no" or "if there's no fair pay I don't want to even think about your movie". Many actors and actresses at México and LATAM struggle with fair wages, even more than in the USA, and if they had the opportunity to read some parts of the script I'm sure they read the misrepresentation and felt insulted.
The "smell" song could've been a sweet scene if they had actually chosen something that would stay relatively the same and isn't traditionally tied to gender, like her smile or her eyes. Then it would be less an implication of gender essentialism and more a commentary on how we can rely on many essential things to show who we are as people regardless of the gendered bodies we're in
To be fair, the last time the kid saw his "dad" she was already 2 months/years (I don't remember now) into HRT. That could be why he could recognise her smell, but I honestly doubt the writers even remembered that fact.
i undersand i'm likely wrong as i'm in the minority in thinking this but i genuinely read that scene as like, people have smells based on their lifestyles. like cigarettes or coffee or things tied to habits rather than it being a gender thing i guess!
I think the smell song could have worked if the smells the kid remembered were things that Emilia did that were more "feminine-coded" or character specific: like they smelled like more femininely associated scents or their "father" always used a specific scented candle in the evenings, I dunno. Or specific blended smells like coffee with a hint of whiskey. Scent memory is worth exploring. But the song in the film is all you smell like my dad - Old Spice and tacos.
When I watched it, I was surprised how I never heard them say trans once. And this isn’t a language thing, transgender and transsexual are both terms used in Spanish, but it was so abrasive hearing them constantly use vague terms rather than just having her say “I’m transgender”. They had time to mention numerous surgical procedures but couldn’t even just state it clearly.
So bummed we got I Saw the TV Glow last year and it's this movie that gets praised for its representation. Movies really are considered a product, not art
Yeah, it's kind of shocking that it didn't get a nomination? But the academy tends to like their stories about minorities told through a lens of white Westerners.
@@calcifiedweatherfrog4945Honestly the worst thing that could have happened to that movie. Have a lot of friends who hate I Saw because they were exposed to it as a horror movie and it's just not that. Several rewatched it outside of the Halloween context and liked it more.
Was about to write this, the man has a movie to release by Netflix, and most of the praise from him seems to be from a technical perspective, as far as I have heard.
I looked it up and she’s 20 years younger than the actress playing her ex-spouse. I’ve seen her in OMITB so I’ve gotten over the “where’s my Disney channel teen Selena?” shock but that’s probably a reason visually some people still mentally go there. That being said, “edgy crime boss man marries woman WAY younger than him” does fit the mold for Emilia’s pre-transition character’s stereotype 😅
Hearing the plot summary of this movie made me realize that cis people do NOT know what HRT does. Also you could MASSIVELY improve this movie by making the lawyer a trans woman too.
@@cladesmas a cis dude with zero rl contact with trans people(afaik) that seemed very weird to me. Keeping the act up for so long is pretty unbelievable
@@cladesmto add to the conversation, feminizing HRT is *often* an estrogen + anti-androgens combo (and hair treatments if you had alopecia), but some people, mainly NBs who don't want to go full fem, just take estrogen to develop some fem traits. Now, this is NOT stealth, you still get several changes with it, just not as drastic and, as far as I know some people who DIY'd decades ago without knowing about anti-androgens, the results are not optimal and need more work from the scalpel later. The thing is, although Emilia could've taken just E...why would she? What was she looking for? Checking if her cartel, a patriarchal organization full of homophobia and sexism, is accepting of a trans woman? That's definitely not something I'd see Emilia think. Plus, how would her wife not notice it if they interact often? Hormonal changes are pretty obvious for a partner, and Emilia probably knew her wife wouldn't be as accepting, so...??? It would make sense for someone else, but not for her character. Those kinds of decisions aren't really on track with who Emilia seems to be.
13 Oscar noms for *This* is the final nail in any legitmacy the Academy had. I'm so sorry that Netflix is bullying you for telling the truth. They're the easiest subscription cancellation I've ever done.
They are all old cisgender mostly men patting themselves on the back for nominating a movie with a trans women in it. Oscar bait is a term for a reason xD
Ngl, i totally uderstand how problematic it is, and even was put off by multiple parts of the movie. But as a trans nonbinary person person, i was moved at some moments, and i would say the movie gave me (a tiny bit) of help in my really tedious medical and social transition process. So, and idk what should be done about this since the criticism still needs to exist, i feel really annoyed that as a neurodivergent introverted trans person, i am being told once again what is "valuable" art that i SHOULD appreciate.
1:24:32 nah, latinamerican here, she also said in an Spanish interview about Mexicans (which she is not) not liking the movie because of how bad it also represents Mexico and she basically said the same thing, that the intelligent mexicans would appreciate it.
Casting a COLONIZER as a Mexican was never going to go well. Now she's about to be the face of Latinidad in Hollywood, when she's not eve Latina. It's the actress version of Rosalia. I hate it here.
Hello, Jessie! I really liked how you distilled the transphobia in the movie, it was through. However, given the title, I’m a bit disappointed in how short the discussion on the movie’s racism is, I understand that you can’t follow the conversation happening in Spanish and that you would rely on other people’s quotes to talk about a topic you’re not familiar with, so I hope you won’t mind if I point out some stuff as a Mexican living in Mexico. First, I think it was extremely tone deaf to bring in a Spaniard (who even calls himself Quetzal, a Nahuatl word) to talk about a full of European racism against Mexicans, he didn't say anything outrageous (apart from referring to Selena´s character as having a North American background to mean Usamerican, when Mexico is also part of North America) and he had the good sense to bring in a Mexican, but still it's very insensitive and contributes to not giving priority to Mexican voices when dealing with Mexican topics, which is a big issue with this movie. I think it should be pointed out how Mexican media is largely ignored by general audiences outside Latin America and specifically by the kinds of critics praising Emilia Pérez. There is a trend of people relying on foreigners to tell Mexican stories and feeling good for engaging with our culture whiteout giving what comes out of this country any attention. Disney's Coco being the biggest example of this. While it's true that Selena Gómez is not responsible for Jacque's choices, a lot of Mexicans people take issue with her because we feel she tokenizes her ancestry for PR while being completely out of touch with Mexico itself, even appropriating iconography from ethnic cultures she doesn't belong to, so her taking to portray a Mexican character with such an atrocious accent is just rubbing salt in the wound. There is an issue of Usamericans feeling like their Latin American descent gives them an authority to talk about the issues in our countries, even though they don’t experience the reality of living here and benefit from living in the imperial core. Their voices are highlighted in Anglo discourse and drown out those of the people living here. Selena (as well as all the other actors from the imperial core) being given this role over a Mexican is another example of that dynamic. Also, personally, I love Del Toro’s movies, but he is a rich man who was born to a rich family and doesn’t live here most of the year, this isn’t the first time he has said things that are out-of-touch, and I would advise against idolatring him. Some other stuff I would have liked to be touched upon: not filming in Mexico also means that Mexicans aren’t being paid for working as labor crew, renting spaces, etc, so foreigners are making money from making a movie about Mexico and not giving anything back. How there isn’t any exploration of the causes of organized crime a lot of which are related to exploitation by countries like the one Jacques comes from, but he seems to think it’s just because we’re morally inferior. Karla doing brown-face to play Emilia’s evil narco persona. Again, I just want to provide some feedback as a Mexican, I really did like the video overall, you have a very good grasp on the language of film that showcases what something is really saying whether intentional or not.
The del Toro thing is the only thing that's a bit iffy. He has a contract with Netflix and they're putting out one of his movies later this year. They could very well have leveraged their power to make him say something. I'm not saying that couldn't have just had a bad take on a movie but his ties to Netflix and the fact he usually doesn't talk about new movies make it a bit dubious
I just can't accept that Guillermo del Toro wasn't being held at gunpoint by Netflix when he praised Emilia Pérez... Or that was clone, not him. I'm in denial.
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James Cameron watched it three times and praised it too. 😒
@@stellviahohenheim I mean, until proven otherwise, "Liar liar pants on fire" is one of the more reasonable explanations I've heard for how it started...
I thought it was just some cringe internet joke when I first heard the lyrics "From pen*s to va-giii-naaa", but nope. That was an actual song in an actual film. And the movie is nominated for Best Picture, plus apparently 10 other Oscars. I just... I just can't.
The liberal insistence on putting civility over the safety of the marginalized always reminds me of this quote from Frankenstein: "There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?" That quote is from the Creature. He says this in response to the suggestion that his lashing out against the humans who have done nothing but abuse and attempt to kill him his entire life somehow retroactively justifies their cruelty towards him. That by daring to bite the hand that beats, the beating was earned. It's a bullshit notion that the Creature rightfully calls out. And it's a notion that's still far too prevalent more than two centuries later.
I'm tired of the democratic party overwhelmingly being complicit with systems that perpetuate our oppression, discrimination, marginalization, and persecution. Instead of addressing the root causes of systemic harm, they rely on small incremental changes that fail to create meaningful structural transformation. It's like trying to fix a road full of craters, massive cracks, and missing sections with just a bucket of black tar-offering temporary patches instead of rebuilding the foundation from the ground up.
Speaking as somebody who's a "child of two worlds" (born to a liberal family + raised on progressivist ideals, and sympathetic to both sides), you're *really* not wrong, and I hate that as much as you do. I'm so sick of people commodifying minorities while doing nothing to assist them from actual bigots who want them dead. Empathy should be unconditional regardless of who you are, and sometimes trying to call peace between one side that wants you dead and the other who just wants to exist is a fool's errand.
the first time i tried to watch emilia pérez, i got so bored that i skipped to the end, and seeing the movie end with THEIR TRANS PROTAGONIST BEING DEADNAMED, MISGENERED, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY DYING WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD was so shocking that i just started cackling like a madman
As a cis man, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this video. I read all the backlash before I actually got to watch EP, and while I did understand on a basic level after watching it that it was transphobic, my first reaction was along the lines of “actually, this doesn’t seem nearly as problematic as people are saying.” But because I’m not part of that community, I was willing to take the community’s word for it rather than to “well ackshually” it and claim it isn’t that bad. This video is super helpful, from an outsider’s perspective, in understanding just where the problems lie.
Cis woman here and I feel exactly the same. I watched it before knowing how hated it was (or why) and was just disappointed by the unpleasant music and strangely arranged story... I'm grateful to understand its much bigger negative implications thanks to this video. Honestly I feel silly for not noticing most of this while watching the movie, but I'm looking forward to consuming media in a more reflective and critical way from here onward.
The fact this movie won the best foreign language film golden globe as a representation of latin american struggle over 'I'm Still Here', wich is an actual latin american movie made by actual latin americans in Latin America, will never not piss me off as a brazillian and i'll never shut up about it. It really goes to show how fickle and performative the claims of the academy and the industry about caring about for latin and global suthern art really are. The global north only wants the aesthetics of us and our cultures, without actually having us be in it, cuz to them we're not people, we are just commodities to be extracted for their consumption Edit after I finished watching it: I loved the video, but as a latin american trans person, i can't help but wish it would have delved deeper on the imperialistic aspect of this movie and its reception, as that is as much of a problem as its transphobia. The history of exploitation and violence against us at the hands of the global north is just as extensive as the history of transphobia in the USA, and just as bloody too. Operation Condor is a great example of this. Multiple of our countries were politically destabilized and forced into authoritarian military dictatorships by the USA, for the sake of stopping our progress and to keep us as a source of cheap labor and resources to fuel the global nothern economy, at a great cost to our peoples, who were subjulgated to all kinds of violence under these regimes. Similar things have happened multiple times throughout our histories and to this day, with some being as recent as last decade, and with the current win of the alt right in the United States, there is a very high risk of it happening again, as Trump has already threatened our sovereignties multiple times in his less than one month old mandate. This type of exploitation is perpetuated against us, partially cuz much like trans people, we, and the rest of the global south aswell, are completely dehuminized by the global north, and such dehuminization is perfectly reinforced and encapsulated by this film, its reception and its very nature as a french representation of México. This imperialism and its consequences are the subject of "I'm Still Here", the film snubbed by this movie in the golden globes, which really adds to the grossness and disrespect of it all. The problem with Emília Perez goes beyond just your run of the mill racism, as the video seemed to imply to me, (although even if it was just that, that'd still be just as worthy of the same coverage as the transphobia), the problem with it is IMPERIALISM, and i'm kind of disapointed at how brushed aside that was, compared to the rest. I get that it's a video made by a trans person from the USA, so it's obvious it would focus on the thing that applies to them, but still, i still think it could have been better? Idk. Perhaps I'm totally tripping balls rn and expecting the wrong people to speak up about this, but I just wish you united statians, particularly the white ones, would acknowledge this type of oppression and the importance of highlighting it, just as much as you do the oppression you experience. To be clear, I'm not trying to hate, as I still deeply appriciate the video. Regardless of anything, I still want to thank Jesse for talking about it
as a mexican, i really cannot stress enough how bad the accent and dialogue is in the movie. i know it's covered in the video but it truly is embarrassing, it is south park caricature levels of bad
All the controversy of this movie has shielded the makeup and prosthetic artist(s) who did her god awful masculinized makeup job. White Chicks was more convincing.
Something that I see too many people gloss over is that they basically did brownface for Manitas' scenes. Besides the masculinization make up they obviously darkened the skin of the actress (wonder if Zoe Zaldaña shared some tips) because she is a white woman, a spaniard playing the role of a mexican woman of color.
pretty obvious brownface too, Zoe's looked bad and was terrible but at least there was an effort lol the pre-transition scenes looked like someone who noticed the foundation she picked is several shades too dark and tried to cover up as much as possible to keep it even
Somehow this film (and some of the folks behind it) just gets worse the more think about it or look into it. On a lighter note I do laugh when you keep my little editorial outbursts.
There's a meme going around here in Brazil that says "The worst headline about Emília Perez is always the next one" or "A pior notícia sobre Emília Perez é sempre a próxima". Though I have some difficulty imagining what will come out next that's worse than Karla Sofia Gascón's hateful tweets.
Not only that, but the trivialization of the Madres Buscadoras and the fight they represent, mothers who search tirelessly for their disappeared loved ones in cartel violence against all mexican institutions and even retribution from the cartels, is one of the main critiques people in Mexico got about the movie. I'm still missing watching it, but I don't want to pay for it lol.
I just need to inform you that there's a scene where a family member who was looking for a missing loved one kisses Emilia's hand like... woof man, the disrespect was truly something
Watching Karla Sofía Gascón completely ruin Emilia Perez’s Oscar campaign by the resurfacing of her insane tweets has a wild ride and I hope it causes the biggest flip in Oscar’s history
Unfortunately I think this would have been the case a couple of years ago, when cancel culture has some bite. Now it's just going to be ignored or lazily swept under the rug. Mark my words, EP will win a whole lot of academy awards
I'm just sad she had to sink Fernanda Torres and I'm still here with her 😭 oscar doesn't like controversy, and now it seems like look: the Latinas are fighting. If course they don't deserve the white civilized oscar
It's a legitimate shame that it took her attacking numerous other minorities for people to cancel the movie, since Mexicans have been saying over and over again that the movie is racist and disrespectful. But I'm still glad that the movie is getting torn apart, I just wished they attacked Audiard as much as they do Karla Sofía. He deserves it as well
This movie feels like it's from 2003, and I mean that in the worst way possible. Also I listened to this whole video while drawing. Your anger was cathartic to listen too. I feel so validated in my frustration and anger. Anger is a powerful tool in face of injustice, and yours reminded me that I am allowed to wield mine. Thank you.
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Hi Jessie! Happy to see myself in one of your videos, noice! Anyway, as for Netflix's censorship, Karla Sofia Gascon's tweets have surfaced and even tho she deleted her Xitter account. The tweets that surfaced are even worse than what we knew about yesterday, she even has hate for my particular region of Spain (Catalonia) so now it's even a bit more personal, hahahaha. Aaaanyway I would hand you translations of the tweets but I don't want to type so so so so so many slurs
They found a tweet criticizing Selena Gomez years ago 😂 What did she said about Cataluña? 😮 Also there are ableist comments, she is really a terrible person
@@Frikilicious If I had to guess, given that she is from Madrid, something shitty about the Catalonian independence referendum or just their drive for independence from Spain.
"I'm spanish, and I needed subtitles to understand Selena Gomez speaking Spanish" Ah, I had the same problem with "Un prophéte", the french movie, also by Jacques Audiard. Despite being french and the characters speaking French, I also need subtitles to understand half of the dialogues. So this is actually a recurent problem with the director... more a sound problem in his other movie, but I guess it's worst with Emilia Perez.
In Emilia Perez it's not a sound problem, everyone speaks terrible spanish. Selena speaks gibberish almost in every scene she appears. Zoe Saldaña speaks like a robot and Sofia Gascón has a very thick castilian accent (not sounding mexican at all)
Not in this case, 1000% nothing to do with sound but the speech and pronunciation of the actors is genuinely gibberish, they are not saying anything correctly enough to fully understand the only exception is Gascón but it’s jarring because anyone from Latin America can tell she is a Spaniard with her thick Spanish accent and the movie presents her as Mexican.
Also, Karla Sofía Gascón's Golden Globes dress was based off Thai Buddhist monk robes. She said this during her speech. But then she recited Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (a Japanese Nichiren Buddhist phrase) when Nichiren Buddhists do not wear Thai style robes. And the shawl on her dress is backwards, over the wrong shoulder. And while Thailand does allow transwomen to ordain (ciswomen are not), the monastic vows require shaving the hair/eyebrows and removing all adornments. No makeup, no jewelry. That dress was very much a costume
I think one of the worst parts of this is it only reaffims to Hollywood elites that this is GOOD. That this is what trans people and Mexican people want. That all the nominations warrant this piece of garbage being seen as positive representation to them. It's not good for us trans folks, it's good for the film industry's egos.
As a mexican have been following the twitter debacle of Karla's tweets (thank you brazillian bros for making all the digital archeology work) and they kept getting worse. Horrible person in the present has been a horrible person in the past, no surprises.
23:30 Cyberpunk 2020/Red/Edgerunners/2077 note: Mike Pondsmith's cyberpsychosis is a metaphor for anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and roid rage. It is not a trans metaphor at all. He made a note that non-violent modifications and sex changes have no chance of cyberpsychosis or lowering Empathy. Cyberpunk 2077 goes one step further by making it clear cyberpsychosis doesn't exist and is a condition that police use to blame economic as well as mental issues.
Also conceptually it originated as a gameplay mechanic first and a lore explanation second. They needed a reason to limit the modifications player characters would get and provide GMs easy justification for using highly modified people as bosses. Interestingly on the flip-side, in the universe of Warhammer 40,000 the concept of cyberpsychosis does not exist at all and there's an entire faction who openly celebrate the cybernetic modification of their own bodies, going as far as to make it a fundamental pillar of their religion.
This one felt like such an oddly sudden callout. I am curious to know her more detailed thoughts on it, as I have never heard anyone with this interpretation--I have a hard time believing anyone engaging seriously with the Cyberpunk franchise could see it as transphobic. I could maybe see coming to that conclusion if you get the cliff notes version of cyberpychosis, I suppose, but I think Jessie'd be surprised if she took a deeper look.
@@asteroidrules yeah like, idk if this is true but i did hear that originally the plan was to have the drawback/limit be around the corporations owning a PC's cyberware, how if a PC had cyberware from competing companies they wouldn't work together well and would affect the PC's ability to do things but there were so many variations to take into account it was getting to be a ridiculous slog, so they worked out cyberpsychosis instead as a more streamlined mechanic again, this is just stuff i heard online so idk how true it is, but yeah
I was looking for this comment and was ready to write it down if I couldn't find it. I think the issue is that Edgerunners didn't have enough time to make clear how Cyberpsychosis actually works and what it really means. Probably Jessie only watched Edgerunners (not to invalidate her opinion, it is a fact that, although unintentional, that interpretation can be perceived if you only watch the show), because even in the videogame it's rather clear that "Cyberpsychosis" is an oversimplified term that society uses to categorise a whole bunch of different mental issues, some of which are only vaguely related to the cybernetics in question, and it's caused more by a lack of empathy, isolation and by the act of detaching oneself from their body by seeing it as a tool or a weapon. The descriptions in Cyberpunk RED only help make this clear, with how Cyberpsychosis is literally tied to the "Empathy" stat and it straight up describes gender transition as something that doesn't alter the humanity of the patient, same as a purely needed prosthetic (like replacing a missing limb) or cosmetic cyberware like tattoos, those cyber-hair implants and etc. Cyberpunk is one of the most trans-inclusive settings I know, but I can see how Jessie would miss this if she only watched Edgerunners.
The gall of the casting director to say they did a big search in "all Latin America" is astounding. Can't she tell a lie like that won't fly? You made a big casting search in over a dozen countries? You flew your casting crew to over a dozen countries? Seriously?
Transwomen/transfeminine people visibly loving being women (speaking about Jessie, not Emilia), makes me so happy. I loved hearing her say "It's like a little flower". 🏳️⚧️
Mexicans hate this movie so much, they say it's the French taking revenge for 5 de Mayo (As a JOKE -clarifying since some seemed confused). But really, I bet these jerks get their rocks off of having a trans woman who happens to be not the best person in the world on their film so they can pretend all their harmful stereotypes are validated. Btw, wasn't Mignonnes/Cuties (2020) also from France? As a Mexican and a Linguist, I should say that some stuff like "resetear" is not super uncommon here in the Northwest frontier (we use a lot of English-borrowed words), but since this movie is set in Mexico City, it does sound ridiculous and unauthentic. Thank you so much for this analysis, Jesse. The way they are trying to censor you just speaks about their hypocrisy, willing to affect trans people's livelihoods to silence criticism of their garbage movie. Love you, please take care.
Honestly tho, with Cuties at least the director was depicting her own experience and took precautions by having therapists and other safety measures on set. YMMV on wether that's enough or not and how scandalous the dance scenes were (for example in my country dancing like that is very common even at a young age due to the populatity of reggaeton) but overall the movie mostly uncomfortable due to how realistic so much of it is (youtuber Khadija Mbowe did a video about if memory serves well and went into more detail about the experiences of being a young black girl from the same culture). Emilia Pérez is just awful in every front as it touched upon many complex and important topics and then just marches right along with another terrible song. The directos clearly knew absolutely nothing about everything that was central to the story and it shows.
both it and cuties terrible films pushing terrible things while being over praised by corrupt media, no surprises there France is just getting worse and worse, even back in the day so much yikes to some films
Netflix is so cooked and so are the Oscars. Also, France should’ve just chosen ‘All We Imagine As Light’ and called it a day. It was an easier bet because it won the Grand Prix at Cannes. Just an innocuous hot take from me. P.S. Sorry to hear about all the s**t Netflix put you through.
I'm just here to promote the series 'El Secreto Del Rio' which is available on Netflix and has been nominated in the Latine GLAAD Awards. The reason for promoting it any chance I get is because we need more Indigenous representation and it's not often you see the Muxes being represented in media.
It only have a few drone shots of Mexico city, the director said that the Mexican streets were too long, narrow and noisy Almost saying, mexican streets are not mexican enough to me 😅
French movie in Mexico that talks about a cartel boss transitioning. Yeah no wonder the french director who filmed it in Paris had no idea what he was doing.
Did they seriously use “bienvenida” when saying “You’re welcome”? Like how you say “you’re welcome” after someone thanks? I’m not a native/fluent Spanish speaker and even I know it is supposed to be “de nada” and not “bienvenida”!
Any first year Spanish student could have told them that. "Bienvenida," means, "Welcome," as in, "Welcome to my home." It is _not_ interchangeable with, "De nada," just because the English words are homonyms.
She is very dumb. She made a statement saying that Fernanda torres’team was playing dirty with her and her movie. What Brazilians did? Went directly to her tweets and review all the sh!t. She doesn’t know the number one rule of internet: don’t mess up with Brazilians. They will eat you alive in internet. If she didn’t say nothing about Torres, no one will noticed her past.
Gotta love the whole "campaign of hate and misinformation" when the source is literally horrifically racist things she's said and tweeted, completely unprompted.
I’ve seen a bunch of reviewers say Jessie is gonna take the kids and leave Mexico, but she says they’re going to live in Polanco - which is just an upscale neighborhood in Mexico City
Johanne Sacrebleu, a mexican parody of Emilia Perez. Is more better and it was directed by transwoman mexican comedian. Right now they are crowfunding for the full length movie!
Just a quick correction: Kimberly Peirce, the director of Boys Don't Cry, is actually genderqueer! There's an interesting article where she describes how her own identity was a driving force in making the film, even if she didn't fully understand it at the time. ("As ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Joins National Film Registry, Kimberly Peirce Addresses Its Complicated History") I think that the inclusion of John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig at 1:20:35 was supposed to be an example of a man playing a trans woman, so I also want to give a shout-out to him coming out as nonbinary in 2022.
And honestly in this movie cis actress can make sense. Its real story about a person whos never been in medical transition process. Yes even better us been find a actor who is trans before medical transition - but i guess it can be super hard. So its different situation and story...
@@IwonaKlich The article I mentioned actually has a section where Peirce says that she spent 3 years auditioning a lot of different people role of Brandon, including trans men, drag kings, and at least two transmasculine artists who likely weren't yet out at the time (Silas Howard and Harry Dodge). She goes on to say that Hilary Swank was ultimately cast because she was the best fit for the role. Jessie rightly criticizes that all too common "We just cast the best actor who happened to not be a part of the community we're supposed to be representing" excuse (I can't help but make a mental connection between Peirce's explanation for casting a woman as Brandon Teena and that casting director's explanation for not casting any Mexican women as the leads in Emilia Pérez), but at least as far as trans representation goes, I personally am willing to extend more grace to older films for making that mistake--at least as long as I'm able to find other sources of validation within the work.
@@IwonaKlich"Romeos" cast a cis guy and added prosthetics. While not perfect, casting a man over a woman for a trans guy is always better. The alternative continues to paint trans men as weird tomboys and why people like ScarJo or Halle Berry are still being offered roles of playing trans men. There's no reason a cis person of the opposite gender should play a trans person.
Thank you for this information. Not saying this about Jessie but sometimes when trying to amplify openly lgbt voices, which is obviously good, a lot of assumptions are made about people's identities!
I am mexican and the get pregnant line in the surgery song legit i tought they were asking about whe she would open her own firm, like as a lawyer. Despacho in some places of mexico means a law firm. The translation is so bad is literally confusing
Here to defend Edgerunners the tiniest bit. Jesse's analysis is entirely valid from a trans lens, for sure. But alternatively I read the body modifications and the resulting "insanity" they cause as a metaphor for power. The more power a person gains, the more they lose their sense of self, and the more violent they become.
Agreed. Mainly when the game introduces Claire Russell as a non-enhanced street racer and firmly separates body modifications from real-world trans surgery.
iirc the original intention with the Cyber psycho system in the TTRPG was that the corpos making the products you're using began to literally take over your mind, combine that with hackers and the final product's ship of theseus themes, and you get the final version in the game and the show.
also (from the ttrpg and some lore bits in the games) "biosculpting" (basically "normal" surgeries, including gender affirming operations and the like) explicitly DON'T cause cyberpsychosis; the effect is caused by the extensive use of cyberware that stretches your ability waaay beyond what normal humans can do, and even then [SPOILERS] the actual reason for the psychosis is more of a mixture of that feeling of alienation, shoddy cyberware sold by the corporations to make easy bucks and mental trauma (e.g.: for living in a world were violence is so engrained in society that murder and most crimes are basically performed with impunity, knowingly being ruled by megacorps etc etc), we see characters that by all conventional metrics should be cyberpsychos (Adam Smasher in er/2077 or, for a less villanous example, Songbird in Phantom Liberty, both have basically all body converted in cyberware) that are actually sane (for a given definition of "Sane" in Smasher's case) due to them having access to top-of-the-line cyberware (from either Arasaka or the NUSA); meanwhile some people are on the edge of psychosis despite relatively small modifications (e.g.: Johnny Silverhand "only" has a metal arm, but it's canon that that was enough to get him close to the edge due to him also being a war veteran and other life experiences). The anime doesn't do a SUPER great job at explaining it (mostly because it's not common knowledge and none of the characters are necessarily in a position to find it out), but even then when Maine and David are losing it we see that they mainly are having visions tied to significant and/or traumatic moments of their lives (and that the implants are put in through horribly unsafe means: David's Sandevistan gets basically bolted to his spine while he is awake and at best under not very effective pain meds given that he appears foaming at the mouth and suffering)
In some editions, there was a capitalistic rat-race element to it - it was entirely possible to reduce cyberpsychosis to practically nothing by properly adjusting cyberware to the person implanted with them and providing therapy to help them get used to it. Unfortunately, that requires time and money that almost no-one in the setting has, while practically everyone needs increasingly more cyberware to keep pace.
@@LordInsane100Yup you take time to get therapy (if you even have the money) and your competition has that latest body mods and take all your jobs. Money one could have used to upgrade themselves further and get ahead.
"Vaaaaaaggggiiiinnnoooplaaaaaastyyyyyy" and I suddenly had the urge to take a long pull from my 12 year single malt. A *really* long pull. I mean it's ok to guzzle brown liquor at 9:30 AM. It's ok.. right?
After hearing the musical portions, I had to wonder. Did they put the dialogue through an AI rhyming algorithm to come up with the lyrics? Come to think of it, was the script written by AI?
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t At this point, I hope so. I hate generative AI, but at least it'd take out the responsibility of the script writers. Technically can't get ragged on if you didn't write it... but VERY much _can_ get ragged on for approving it. I see it as a toss-up: 50/50 chance it's human or AI.
Re: smelling like his dad, I think you're probably completely right because the movie is not thinking this deeply, but I do remember Emilia revealing early on that she's be on hormones for 2 years. That's a pretty young child, so does it make sense as a headcanon that "dad's smell" still refers to how she was after the hormones started?
I was thinking the same thing, but i don't know how much do hormones make you smell like Coca Cola Light with lemon and ice cubes. They probably tried to imply she smelled... You know, as a mexican since the comments about "guacamole and motor oil" wich is commonly associated with us.
Haha this was the exact nitpicky "complaint" I had +I'd argue the kid isn't listing what Emilia actually smells like? He's using kid language to communicate that his dad's (on HRT) smell brings up memories. "We went hiking" - "You smell like mountains", "I watched you fix our car" - "like motor oil", "we'd watch tv on the couch" - "like the coke we drank". Anecdotally, my mom smells like lullabies ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯ (That's at least the cope-y reasoning I'm clutching onto since I want the scene to be sweet 😂)
@Mockingdragon Don't worry, i think it's completly fair and constructive to headcanon positive things about this or any movie. Me, personally, i headcanon it as a comedy (because it had ALL the potential to be a funny one)
I’m Still Here is the real latino movie of this season, can finally award a best actress award to a latina, and has the potential to upstage Emilia Perez in International Film. If we all rally around it, I’m Still Here can top Emilia Perez in International Film, and then Emilia Perez will be completely cooked. No wonder Gascón was attacking Torres!
it's so funny to me that everyone thinks the exwife is moving away from mexico because the movie makes it this big deal. shes moving to another neighborhood in mexico city, like 5 blocks away from where she is at lol
Classic confirmation bias. This movie just gives non-trans folk what they want without challenge. Affirms what they know and having what you know affirmed feels good.
There are so many things wrong with the movie, but it really did not need to be a musical. It has massive issues with it's transphobia and racism, but it just did not need to be a musical.
I don't get it 😭why even make it like that? he could have just made a movie about a french trans woman 😭 or is it that he thinks there is no organized crime in france? just in "savage" countries like mexico? 😭 maybe it's revenge for emily in paris?
He thinks France is civilized and Spanish is a language for more "uncivilised" people... he literally said it was a language for "poor people and migrants". So yea, definitely rooted in racism
It should really demonstrate the director’s transphobia to have Emilia drop into a “masculine voice” post-transition, because doing so literally undercuts his own storytelling, and the meal he tries to make of her reveal. Like he was more concerned with being transphobic than making a good movie. Also, that car explosion ending feels like something out of Netflix’s black comedy horrors (like the killer babysitter series), but they tried to use it in earnest this time.
I’m both trans and Latino. My mom found out about a movie about a trans woman from latinoamerica and she was really excited to watch it with me. She then found out about what the movie was actually like. This is fucking terrible, I can’t believe this movie is getting awards
Before I even see the video, here's what I know: 1) It's a musical about a trans, mexican woman. 2) Every single Mexican seems to detest the movie if they've seen it. 3) The trans community either pretends it doesn't exist, or calls it out as bad representation. 4) The protagonist sing like shit (judging by the one clip i've seen). So, it really seems the movie is uh... not promising. Let's see what the hate was about.
So far this is the best review I've seen of the movie. Many American media and creators have only focused on the transphobia of the film and have ignored the racism, just as they have focused on criticizing Selena and Karla, but without highlighting the horrible FRENCH creative team. As a Mexican trans person, I expected the film to touch my identity fibers, but I think what hurt me the most was the theme (and conceptual treatment) of people who have "disappeared." It is a very complicated tragedy, where not only drug trafficking is involved but also the State. The violence experienced in the country is heartbreaking, and using the issue as a narrative pretext is selfish on the part of the film's director. There are more than 100,000 missing people in Mexico, and many people (especially mothers) are risking their lives to find their relatives every day. Thank you for this video, your research and your time. I sincerely hope that our lives as trans and queer people continue to flourish and that we continue to grow and survive, together.
little known fact: the title of this film is "Emilia Pérez" due to its phonetic similarity to "Emily in Paris", a famously faithful depiction of life in France, mirroring the accuracy and respect with which this story reflects Mexican culture.
I'd been meaning to cancel my rarely used Netflix subscription for months, but just never made the time to do it. After 2 hours and 12 minutes of "Emilia Perez" (I went into it knowing nothing but the title and that it had been nominated for some awards somewhere) I made the time. No mo' Netflix.
It was about the same for me, and I had started out microdosing. I dunno though, maybe that kid is a werewolf. Which I would still say is bad representation.
This is fast food for americans. The accents are so bad those people shouldn't even be considered latin. And the main lead is from Spain. Why didn't they find one actress with a proper accent?
I do want to correct one thing with Giancarlo Esposito's section. Yes, he was born in Denmark, but his family moved to NYC when he was 6 so that hardly matters. What's wild about his casting isn't that he was born in Denmark, but that his family (to my knowledge) isn't at all Spanish regardless of where he was born. He's not ethnically Danish though either. His father is from Italy and his mother is from Alabama. I think he did the best he could when it came to the Spanish speaking parts and I'm glad this show was a saving grace for him, but it would've been nice to see a Chilean actor in the place of Gus Fring. Or at least to have had him spend more time with a vocal coach OR dubbing his Spanish lines with a proper Chilean speaker. There are always options!
I have a psychiatric disability and i am isolated socially. While having nightly terrors, i was able to put on this video and it helped me calm down, even though i couldnt really follow the topic at the moment. I Just Like the way Jessie talks and sounds. Dear Ms Gender, Thank You, Stay Safe and keep up the good work esp. the Star Trek stuff :)
Even as someone who has little to no respect for the Oscars, I was so happy to see the best animated feature category filled with all the movies that I watched and loved (shame Transformers One didn't get a nomination, but it will get its flowers one way or another). This is a rare year where I'd be happy if any of those beautiful works of art win. But knowing that this horrible, offensive movie gets as many nominations as Oppenheimer, with none of them being deserved... I'm just dreading the upcoming ceremony more than anything.
Yeah. Emilia Perez is tied for 2nd largest # of nominations with a few other films (including Oppenheimer, like you mentioned), and it's probably also the nail-in-the-coffin for me as well. I don't think I can ever really hate the concept *behind* any of these award shows, I love giving artists of all kinds praise for their works and efforts, but in execution, I agree with you entirely. It's become a status symbol, more than a celebration, and that really hurts as an artist and film lover (I still agree that the animation category was really good though).
I know the point of making it a musical was as award bait. But there is so little effort in even making it a muscial. They just talk sing over a beat that sounds more like a copyright free music, than music that would have lyrics sung with it.
Still confused as to why they cast Selena Gomez who doesn't speak a lick of Spanish, how embarrassing. But she is a bigot like the lead actress so that's probably why. She basically said in a tweet that she doesn't care about Black Lives Matter and that in another tweet she also doesn't care about Palestinian children. While I think what is happening to migrants here in America being deported even the legal ones is heartbreaking and disgusting I think it's hypocritical for Selena to act like we should all be upset over this when she couldn't be bothered to give the same empathy when her fans were asking for her support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the call for a cease fire in Palestine.
I've been very skeptical of her personal views ever since she attended that megachurch in hollywood that was openly homophobic. Granted she apologized and distanced herself once controversy arose, but it's notable that she had no issue or criticisms before public attention was suddenly on the church. If she is still evangelical, it wouldnt be a surprise that she wouldnt vocally support BLM, pro-palestine, or other social civil rights movements. The church has a long history of racism, christian z*onism (which is both antisemitic and anti-arab), and involvement in far-right political activism in the last several decades
I remember the first time I saw Emilia Perez's infamous musical number, and I was just so utterly baffled by it. And yeah, the rest of the film is just as baffling.
I’m bitter this is going to take the prize from “Seed of the Sacred Fig”. The director had to flee Iran for making it. Mohammad Rasoulof did not lose his country FOR THIS.
Really could not help thinking throughout your synopsis/analysis how this movie could have been rewritten to be super interesting. Like what if instead of Rita being cis she’s a Black trans woman lawyer in Mexico who’s impacted by cartel violence, but feels like she has to help Emilia because Emilia will do bad things to her family if she refuses. And maybe Rita’s character would have a completely different transition, where she is open about her past and connected to her family and community, and maybe Emilia sees Rita living openly as a disadvantage at first but changes her mind when she becomes stifled by her own life in which she has no connection to her family and community. Could also be interesting if Rita had a harder time with transition financially than Emilia because she was caring for her family. Idk, the framing really truly did such a disservice and I get that cis ppl think everything is about them but a trans movie about trans people would be so much better
I agree the smell thing is bs, but also if we assume that the child has a magical nose, Emilia did start transitioning and was on HRT for 2 years, during which the child could've gotten used to the smell. (I'm not trying to defend the movie, I'm trans too :3)
My transphobic father saw this movie and immediately came home to brag about how much he loved it as if that made him some sort of ally. Not surprised it's poor representation.
As someone who is Autistic. Sia's Music is how I feel most Trans people feel about Emilia Perez. And Sia is in the list now of my personal enemies next to Jenny McCarthy, Butch Hartman (look up Hartman House), and the entire GOP.
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - NETFLIX has tried to silence me for calling out racism from the star of their so-called ‘trans movie.’ I'm absolutely LIVID. The version of this video that was supposed to go live included a last-minute section I added about Emilia Perez’s lead trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon’s resurfaced racist, Islamophobic, and violent tweets from 2020 and 2021. In Spanish, she wrote things like:
-“Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.”
-Calling George Floyd a ‘drug peddler’ that ‘no one really cared about.’
-Made racist statements about Guillermo del Toro after he won the Oscar for Shape of Water.
-Made racist and anti-Asian posts after Bong Joon-Ho after he won the Oscar for Parasite.
-Among numerous other racist things, with a lot specifically towards Muslims.
I edited and uploaded that version, but Netflix hit it with a copyright strike before it could go live, forcing me to take it down. This wasn’t just a claim-it was a STRIKE, which could delete my entire channel-my livelihood. I already had one last year for calling out Matt Walsh’s hateful transphobia. The more I speak out, the more my channel is threatened.
Netflix weaponized copyright to silence a trans critic for exposing Gascon’s racism-all to protect their so-called “trans representation” movie, which, as I discuss, is harmful to trans people and considered racist by many Mexican people. I am furious but not surprised by this blatant hypocrisy. Given the state of the world, I do not have the emotional capacity for kindness right now. This is unacceptable, gross, disgusting behavior.
Luckily, this older version was already uploaded, so it survived. However, it’s MUCH lighter on Gascon, as it was edited before these revelations. The deleted version had much stronger words. But make no mistake: Netflix tried to threaten my livelihood.
Gascon’s tweets are linked below. Read them. Share them. Make noise.
And if you want the UNCENSORED version-the one Netflix tried to erase-it’s on my Patreon and Nebula. Support me there, where my work isn’t censored by corporations pretending to support us while actively silencing and attacking us.
Please share my videos. I won’t be ashamed to say I need financial and vocal support. I don’t know how much longer I can do this-to make my art, to pay my bills-because TH-cam and the US is NOT safe for me now.
- nebula.tv/jessiegender
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That's awful and I hope you can ride this out!
Sidenote: Can anyone source the part about her talking against Guillermo del Toro and Bong Joon--Ho? I haven't been able to find those tweets. Not doubting Jesse, just haven't found them.
As if I didn't have enough reasons to hate Netflix.
I knew I had the right idea, leaving Netflix behind after they defended a transphobic "comedy" special.
Wow I only learned of the existence of this movie yesterday, and already it's SO MUCH WORSE than I could imagine.
How did this get made?? Did JK Rowling fund it??? WHY IS EVERYTHING BIZARRO WORLD RIGHT NOW????
I really hate TH-cam as well
I saw one comment that said something like: "This movie is like saying 'Bonjour' to an Italian waiter at a Chinese restaurant in Scotland."
One movie TH-camr nailed it when she said "Emilia Perez" is the "Crash" of her generation.
The hypothetical speaker is so brave and tolerant for daring to speak European to them, rather than speaking English like normal people! (/sarcasm)
That is an amazing analogy!
lol, i'm a spanish speaker, and i just wrote my own comment mentioning how this movie is on the same level as saying "konichiwa arigato!" to a japanese person or going "oui oui bagette" to a french person.... it really is that level of bad. i don't care if neither the director nor selena meant ill with it, they are adults and proffessionals in this industry. not kids, and not hobbists. they should know better. it really exudes of privilege and internalized racism.
in fact? you know what? someone should go up to this ass of a director and say "oui oui baguette", they would be my hero.
It's more like a mexican doing a musical about 9/11 using google translate
Someone on a comment section put it the best way I've seen: "Imagine a French guy did a movie about 9/11 telling the story of Lin Baden, a trans woman who used to be a terrorist. Then turned it into a musical, didn't have a single American actor in it, and all the songs are google-translated from Mandarin and sung with a feigned Scottish accent. That's how Emilia Pérez felt to Mexicans."
Maybe a better equivalent would be a trans woman who was a school shooter, got away with it and then transitioned.
This is a brilliant explanation.
We need that movie now
There is a movie like that. A mexican and trans creator made a short film in response to Emilia Perez, its on yt: Johanne Sacreblue. Its so fun, they filmed it in like 2 days!
also imagine they film it in Corea and portray USA as everything is Alabama and the all say "yehaa!" and everything is resolve with guns
As a french viewer, i want you to know that french trans activists also talked how bad the movie is for representation. We are honestly tired of old man like Jacques getting hype over that subject.
like I get the director thinks Mexico is the most dangerous country in the latin America (to be fair to him, it probably is) but to water down the ENTIRE Country to just drugs is wildddd
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C'est la honte en vrai il a craqué Audiard🤦♀️🤦♀️
Faut retirer la caméra à ce réalisateur...
@@mariasol1545that he read "mob boss" in the short story and went "Mexico!" in his head is almost a hate crime...
Jessie wasn't even threatening to leave México with the children. She was gonna move to a neighborhood like 15 minutes away. It doesn't make sense, but they didn't bother to check a map.
Emilia getting pissed bc she has to walk a half mile to get to her kids now
Exactly! I think it’s absurd that what triggers the final conflict of the movie is Jessie wanting to move her family from one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Mexico City to the other wealthiest neighborhood in Mexico City, which are within walking distance of each other 🙄
YES!! I was losing my mind when Emilia started asking if there were “good schools” in polanco like… they’re moving right next door why would they change schools 😭
None of these people have ever been to Mexico City and it shows
finally someons in teh same page as me! not many people talk about that. Like, girl, you literally faked your death for YEARS and you're currently going as your cousin instead of telling the truth. She should've been honest with her kids and wife about his identidy from the start
As a trans Mexican woman, yeah this movie is beyond offensive, specially given the violence and death that plagues Mexican society at the hands of cartel, the same criminal groups that are funded, armed and sometimes trained by "western" countries, is totally trivialized, like "this is normal in Mexico/latin America", is the same racist/classist world view that global south countries with majority brown population somehow "desserve" or "cant help but" living in such violent conditions being victims of war and instability, depicting our governments as "inherently corrupt" while ignoring that in countries like the US, corruption is literally LEGAL, is just the classic white-centric view of Mexican stereotypes that they just refuse to even question or investigate at all.
PD: BTW it isnt surprising that actors like Eugenio Derbez, and even directors as Guillermo del Toro praise this movie, they come from a long tradition of racist and classist Mexican cinema, havent you noticed how the most notorious Mexican actors/directors are almost all of them white looking? Mexico is 70% brown yet all the faces you see on TV or cinema are mostly white, it is a legacy of colonialism that we havent fully overcome in Mexico.
Yeah, like, most of our cinema industry is just plain racist and insanely classist with just a touch of nepotism. As someone from Mexico City who went to private schools and was classmates with children of actors more than once, their world view is fucking insane, very much in line with other white classmates from privileged backgrounds and insanely isolated from the real Mexico.
I finally saw Alfonso Cauron's first film Solo Con Tu Pareja and it was a breath of fresh air to just see a silly comedy set in Mexico city and it not be all cartel or all violence and sadness which as a white brit is most of what I see when Mexico is portrayed in media in English or the handful of things that cross over
If you read Del Toro's statement closely, he makes a lot of effort to praise Emilia Perez. It's like he's trying to lie without actually lying 😂
Ugh such good points. Just really want to boost this comment
Agree with you, but😆even Derbez was criticized for expressing he hates it
And the fact that pretransition Emilia is portrayed as a brown indigenous man, when most cartel leaders are white nepobabies and pretransition Karla looked just like most cartel leaders do white and blonde.
I keep saying this about this movie. Loving the optics of Emilia transitioning from a brown criminal man to a white savior lady 🫠🙃
As a Mexican, I can tell you that this is true and very curious... our cartel leaders are never as brown as Manitas. So there is racism and colorism everywhere.
And I never thought "Emilia" was really trans -- just a killer trying to hide his real identity, not live any kind of more authentic life. Only the criminality was authentic. And even after the many Instant Surgeries, Emilia is still the same brutal criminal sadist (now to her own immediate family) that Manitas was before. Is the movie -- or the audience -- unaware of this, uh, "character flaw" in the movie's central plot device? I couldn't wait for the real Emilia to be exposed and get her comeuppance (I saw the movie through the lens of "Scarface" and "The Magnificent Ambersons"). Instead, she basically gets away with murder... until she doesn't.
It's interesting because a lot of the syndicates have a strange relationship with race/colorism & the way "darker" is coded more masculine; like is it them performing hypermasculinity by affecting rurality; is it the state playing into colorism with how they show the leaders...
& then the fact that skin color changes based on light (& sunlight exposure) so like El Chapo when extradited after incarcerated, is more white passing than he was when he was at large...
Like part of what got Barbie his nickname was that he was white by American standards
You could definitely be on to something but I just think Manitas maybe looks a bit darker because he was always in really dark lighting. It’s the same actress, I don’t think her skin tone changed between scenes. And there’s a much smaller pool of experienced trans women actors to choose from, they probably selected her for her talents rather than to be a realistic representation of most drug cartels.
I can easily see how subconscious biases could have gone into the direction and makeup/lighting though, this kind of racism is definitely deeply ingrained
The director could have made a musical about a French crime lord that wanted to transition and escape the underworld and start anew.
There was no need to use Mexico and the Spanish language as a backdrop.
he thought Spanish made sense because it's a "modest" language, from up and coming countries, immigrants, and marginalized people loool
I agree. The basic premise could have been interesting and explored interesting themes. No need to set it in Mexico. But the choice to set it in Mexico is emblematic of the problems plaguing this movie.
@@VictoriaClerici Omg, what was that interview? That "It's a language of the poor, a language of the worker". What a moron.
It was set in Mexico to avoid people on the way to see it thinking: "Gender-confusion, mobsters, French? You know, let's re-watch Victor/Victoria instead".
@@owenreynolds8718idc. If it would of cause people to rage out, he shouldn’t of ever made the movie period.
"I'm still here", the actual latin-american movie made by latin-american people, just released in North-American cinemas, I'd recommend watching that instead of Emilia Perez. It is a very needed movie in the moment, as it grapples directly with the efffect a disappeared person has on a whole family, which happened by the thousand during the fascist military dictatorship in brazil in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Emilia Perez pretends to care about disappeared persons, but only uses it to signal that Emilia wants to be a good person who does good things instead of focusing on this very large and serious issue. This movie is completely about it, it is based on a nonfiction book written by the son of the family (for most of the movie, he is just a little boy), and it’s tremendously well made.
@@republicacoes Thanks for the reccomandation :)
But it's not offensive to the far right (except the Brazilian far right) so it's not going to win anything.
With the nomination of that in Best Picture and the exclusion of singing the Oscar nominated original songs live, there must’ve been Academy members who saw EP and tried to do something about it, but were too late, so tried everything in their power to make up for it with the aforementioned nomination and cancellation.
Sidebar:
I’m I the only one who feels like Sing Sing was going to be a Best Picture nominee before the deadline time extended?
Folks must’ve sought out I’m Still Here after Fernanda Torres’ surprise Golden Globe win and, when they watched it, they actually gravitated positively toward the flick more than they expected aside from just being a Best International Feature Film nominee.
With that, they unintentionally knocked off Sing Sing at the last second (making it more apparent in how it should’ve knocked off EP in return, even having not seen the latter flick).
While I'm glad that "I'm still here" managed to get the best picture nomination despite the existance of Emília Perez and that it's a historical nomination, the first time a brazilian movie has ever been nominated for Best Picture, the fact that Emília Perez is still in the list of nominations leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. It would make for a much better Oscar if Sing Sing had gotten the nomination instead of Emilia Perez, specially considering how much an Oscar nomination acts as a marketing buff to get a movie in more theaters and therefore, to get more people to see it. Sing Sing could-ve really benefited from that even if it didn't eventually win the oscar.
@@republicacoesWith the exception of Clarence Maclin for Best Supporting Actor (who should’ve been nominated over Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown and I haven’t even seen either flick), it got all of the needed nominations to get Best Picture along with passionate support from other filmmakers to give ‘em that accolade.
As a Latin person who witnessed gang violence against my neighbors, and had relatives die to it, I do not think I'd be too happy if a former cartel leader was presented in the light that this movie is presenting.
This fiction of Mexican drug cartels is so mythologized it took me the longest times to connect it to the local drug gang violence that surrounds my own city here in Lat America
@@srtatropicalia They make it seem like a romanticized mafia style thing in media, when in reality it is a brutal gang of thugs with zero regard for human life and human suffering.
like I get the director thinks Mexico is the most dangerous country in the latin America (to be fair to him, it probably is) but to water down the ENTIRE Country to just drugs is wildddd
as soon as emilia mentioned HRT, i said 'and no one noticed? for 2 years?' and i kept making this joke until the final scene with her. the idea of disappearing as one gender and reappearing as another is a fantasy i've had to avoid the inevitable awkwardness of socially transitioning... which is why it would have been so interesting to actually explore the consequences of emilia wanting parts of her old life after enacting this fantasy. that could have been the main plot thread, rather than the identity ones. you could have kept a similar plot with less transphobia. it's absurd to me.
Apparently she just didnt show any skin to anyone for a loong time. Not to the wife not to any other mafiosos just nada.
Philosophy Tube did that, at least with her TH-cam persona, not sure how it all went irl.
People do not look at other people nearly as much as you'd think...
@@mackie490 In her coming out video I think I remember her saying something to the effects that she had come out way earlier to close family and friends. Pretty sure she didn't go into details
If the Academy really, _really_ wanted to honour a French-made film that's set in a completely different country and follows a woman as she secretly undergoes a major physical transformation, they should have nominated _The Substance_ for more things.
The Substance was such a good film. As a person with a pretty strong tolerance for body horror in fictional media, I just LOVE the slow build-up in this movie. Of course it starts pretty strong with how the second body is made, but the real scares don't start happening immediately.
That and as a metaphor for the media industry and the fear of aging- both as a social horror (how other people and society will treat you differently in old age) and as a body horror (the changes to your own body and the growing fragility, physical limitations, and potential mental decline)- it's effective in what it sets out to convey.
I hope it wins best picture tbh, slim though the chance may be. Also Margaret Qualley was robbed…
@@gemstone108 Yeah, I think it'll boil down to _Emilia Pérez_ and _The Brutalist_ , sadly.
though Aurélie Fargeat is french, The Substance is a mostly american-fouded production if I recall
@@tendreverveine2553 British and French. Mubi was its US (and UK) distributor. Also, I said "French-made" because it was written and directed by a French person.
Funny though that a Mexican trans woman and others made a short version ribbing on the French to highlight the issue and get back a little.
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But they where no Mexican and Trans actors good enough to be cast! I mean if the cast director said it, it must be true right? they wouldn't lie to us * Just fyi is sarcasm *
omg i just commented that someone should go up to the director and be like "oui oui baguette" in his ear. i didn't know this version of the movie existed, i need to look it up. The spanish in this movie is so bad that it genuinly is offensive, same level as going "oui oui baguette sacrebleu" to a french or "arigato konichiwa!" to a japanese person and be like "i totally speak french/japanese
My favorite part of the Johanne Sacrebleu is when Ladybug and Cat Noir show up in the background
@@per-c8229 mexican actors are a myth, as we all know
The French director called Spanish "the language of the poor." 🤬🤬
@@Arosukir6 considering how widespread French is in a lot of African countries which I would say that French is a language of the poor
ewww oh my god,,,, im so sorry about him, this guy sucks (saying this as a french person)
I haven't gone to the cinema recently but i swear they could've just found better french cinema to nominate,,,
@@LocutusBorgOf wow.
@@LocutusBorgOf how you gonna be racist in calling out someone else's racism.
@@YouAreDreamingRightNow where's the racism? There are plenty of African countries which have French as the official language and have been institutionalized into poverty by colonialism
Also im sorry, they searched the entirety of latin america and couldnt find a single mexican actress? That is just beyond ridiculous 😂
The one (1) mexican actress they had, Adriana Paz, wasn't even allowed to sit with the rest of the team at the Golden Globes ceremony
It's not like Mexico has it's own film and tv industry, or that Los Angeles is ~15% Mexican descent. Nah, clearly no Mexican actors exist, they *had* to look elsewhere /s
They held auditions in Paris and shrugged when no mexican actors had turned up
Also not the underlying tone of all of south American countries speak Spanish 😭💀 beyond ridiculous, bordering humorous even
Ngl it smells like a "we couldn't find any actors/actresses who would do it for basically free": it's either that they saw the script and went "haha no" or "if there's no fair pay I don't want to even think about your movie".
Many actors and actresses at México and LATAM struggle with fair wages, even more than in the USA, and if they had the opportunity to read some parts of the script I'm sure they read the misrepresentation and felt insulted.
The "smell" song could've been a sweet scene if they had actually chosen something that would stay relatively the same and isn't traditionally tied to gender, like her smile or her eyes. Then it would be less an implication of gender essentialism and more a commentary on how we can rely on many essential things to show who we are as people regardless of the gendered bodies we're in
To be fair, the last time the kid saw his "dad" she was already 2 months/years (I don't remember now) into HRT. That could be why he could recognise her smell, but I honestly doubt the writers even remembered that fact.
i undersand i'm likely wrong as i'm in the minority in thinking this but i genuinely read that scene as like, people have smells based on their lifestyles. like cigarettes or coffee or things tied to habits rather than it being a gender thing i guess!
I burst out laughing when she sang "You smell like Coke...
....Zero with lemon"
@@Dairunt1 and ice cubes!
I think the smell song could have worked if the smells the kid remembered were things that Emilia did that were more "feminine-coded" or character specific: like they smelled like more femininely associated scents or their "father" always used a specific scented candle in the evenings, I dunno. Or specific blended smells like coffee with a hint of whiskey. Scent memory is worth exploring. But the song in the film is all you smell like my dad - Old Spice and tacos.
When I watched it, I was surprised how I never heard them say trans once. And this isn’t a language thing, transgender and transsexual are both terms used in Spanish, but it was so abrasive hearing them constantly use vague terms rather than just having her say “I’m transgender”. They had time to mention numerous surgical procedures but couldn’t even just state it clearly.
I agree they should've been explicit. But I wish they would've used a more inclusive umbrella term beyond the trans/cis binary, like gender-diverse.
So bummed we got I Saw the TV Glow last year and it's this movie that gets praised for its representation. Movies really are considered a product, not art
Yeah, it's kind of shocking that it didn't get a nomination? But the academy tends to like their stories about minorities told through a lens of white Westerners.
Right?! That movie has stuck with me for months after watching it. It’s incredible.
It doesn't help that ISTTG is classified as a horror movie and the academy hates horror for some reason
God that was a gut wrenching film. I felt totally changed after I saw it
@@calcifiedweatherfrog4945Honestly the worst thing that could have happened to that movie. Have a lot of friends who hate I Saw because they were exposed to it as a horror movie and it's just not that. Several rewatched it outside of the Halloween context and liked it more.
I think Guillermo del Toro's praise of Emilia Pérez relates more to his contractual relationship with Netflix than a genuine passion for the film.
Also he like weird things. He may like it because he think is a parody...
Was about to write this, the man has a movie to release by Netflix, and most of the praise from him seems to be from a technical perspective, as far as I have heard.
@@IwonaKlich Nah, he knows it's bullshit but Netflix is and has been financing a bunch of his projects and also contractual obligations.
Truth
Or maybe he just likes the movie, can you proof that he is lying because of you imaginary conspiracy with Netflix???
I'm going to be honest, I completely forgot that Selena Gomez is old enough to play as somebody's wife
She's a very nice person but a god-awful actress unfortunately
I personally thought she was quite good in only murders in the building, it’s a shame she’s wasted on this movie
@RaineGillanders I can't understand most of what she says there as well, and she sounds like a robot that can only speak through its nose
I looked it up and she’s 20 years younger than the actress playing her ex-spouse. I’ve seen her in OMITB so I’ve gotten over the “where’s my Disney channel teen Selena?” shock but that’s probably a reason visually some people still mentally go there.
That being said, “edgy crime boss man marries woman WAY younger than him” does fit the mold for Emilia’s pre-transition character’s stereotype 😅
@@averyeml neat
She's like 30 something innit?
Hearing the plot summary of this movie made me realize that cis people do NOT know what HRT does. Also you could MASSIVELY improve this movie by making the lawyer a trans woman too.
Hey, not all cis people 😉
I was wondering about that. "I've been on HRT for 2 years." Really? Really? And all you got was breasts? What about all the other changes?
At the beginning of the video I did in fact think Rita was a trans woman too. I liked it better that way
@@cladesmas a cis dude with zero rl contact with trans people(afaik) that seemed very weird to me. Keeping the act up for so long is pretty unbelievable
@@cladesmto add to the conversation, feminizing HRT is *often* an estrogen + anti-androgens combo (and hair treatments if you had alopecia), but some people, mainly NBs who don't want to go full fem, just take estrogen to develop some fem traits. Now, this is NOT stealth, you still get several changes with it, just not as drastic and, as far as I know some people who DIY'd decades ago without knowing about anti-androgens, the results are not optimal and need more work from the scalpel later.
The thing is, although Emilia could've taken just E...why would she? What was she looking for? Checking if her cartel, a patriarchal organization full of homophobia and sexism, is accepting of a trans woman? That's definitely not something I'd see Emilia think.
Plus, how would her wife not notice it if they interact often? Hormonal changes are pretty obvious for a partner, and Emilia probably knew her wife wouldn't be as accepting, so...???
It would make sense for someone else, but not for her character. Those kinds of decisions aren't really on track with who Emilia seems to be.
13 Oscar noms for *This* is the final nail in any legitmacy the Academy had. I'm so sorry that Netflix is bullying you for telling the truth. They're the easiest subscription cancellation I've ever done.
What happened between the year when EEaaO swept everything rightfully so and now? 😢
They are all old cisgender mostly men patting themselves on the back for nominating a movie with a trans women in it. Oscar bait is a term for a reason xD
This isn't just Hollywood patting itself on the back. This is Hollywood doing what they'd do after getting several ribs removed.
Ngl, i totally uderstand how problematic it is, and even was put off by multiple parts of the movie. But as a trans nonbinary person person, i was moved at some moments, and i would say the movie gave me (a tiny bit) of help in my really tedious medical and social transition process. So, and idk what should be done about this since the criticism still needs to exist, i feel really annoyed that as a neurodivergent introverted trans person, i am being told once again what is "valuable" art that i SHOULD appreciate.
If this movie had been written and made in English, the 13 noms would be for the razzies not the Oscars.
In happier news, Johanne Sacreblue will have an extended version going to cinemas : )
oh rejoice!
I would love to see it, but with subtitles because I suck as Spanish
Eso fue lo único bueno que trajo la creación de Emilia Peréz. Espero que Johanne Sacreblue le vaya super bien en los cines de Mexico.
@@Dave102693 There are works on it already.
More people need to see it!
1:24:32 nah, latinamerican here, she also said in an Spanish interview about Mexicans (which she is not) not liking the movie because of how bad it also represents Mexico and she basically said the same thing, that the intelligent mexicans would appreciate it.
I heard she say "los mexicanos de bien" which is actually worse than saying intelligent in my opinion
@@ferreterialarosca8757oof… the ‘good Mexicans’ ?! Woooooooow.
@@ferreterialarosca8757 oh that IS worse 😬
Casting a COLONIZER as a Mexican was never going to go well. Now she's about to be the face of Latinidad in Hollywood, when she's not eve Latina. It's the actress version of Rosalia. I hate it here.
Hello, Jessie! I really liked how you distilled the transphobia in the movie, it was through. However, given the title, I’m a bit disappointed in how short the discussion on the movie’s racism is, I understand that you can’t follow the conversation happening in Spanish and that you would rely on other people’s quotes to talk about a topic you’re not familiar with, so I hope you won’t mind if I point out some stuff as a Mexican living in Mexico.
First, I think it was extremely tone deaf to bring in a Spaniard (who even calls himself Quetzal, a Nahuatl word) to talk about a full of European racism against Mexicans, he didn't say anything outrageous (apart from referring to Selena´s character as having a North American background to mean Usamerican, when Mexico is also part of North America) and he had the good sense to bring in a Mexican, but still it's very insensitive and contributes to not giving priority to Mexican voices when dealing with Mexican topics, which is a big issue with this movie.
I think it should be pointed out how Mexican media is largely ignored by general audiences outside Latin America and specifically by the kinds of critics praising Emilia Pérez. There is a trend of people relying on foreigners to tell Mexican stories and feeling good for engaging with our culture whiteout giving what comes out of this country any attention. Disney's Coco being the biggest example of this.
While it's true that Selena Gómez is not responsible for Jacque's choices, a lot of Mexicans people take issue with her because we feel she tokenizes her ancestry for PR while being completely out of touch with Mexico itself, even appropriating iconography from ethnic cultures she doesn't belong to, so her taking to portray a Mexican character with such an atrocious accent is just rubbing salt in the wound. There is an issue of Usamericans feeling like their Latin American descent gives them an authority to talk about the issues in our countries, even though they don’t experience the reality of living here and benefit from living in the imperial core. Their voices are highlighted in Anglo discourse and drown out those of the people living here. Selena (as well as all the other actors from the imperial core) being given this role over a Mexican is another example of that dynamic.
Also, personally, I love Del Toro’s movies, but he is a rich man who was born to a rich family and doesn’t live here most of the year, this isn’t the first time he has said things that are out-of-touch, and I would advise against idolatring him.
Some other stuff I would have liked to be touched upon: not filming in Mexico also means that Mexicans aren’t being paid for working as labor crew, renting spaces, etc, so foreigners are making money from making a movie about Mexico and not giving anything back. How there isn’t any exploration of the causes of organized crime a lot of which are related to exploitation by countries like the one Jacques comes from, but he seems to think it’s just because we’re morally inferior. Karla doing brown-face to play Emilia’s evil narco persona.
Again, I just want to provide some feedback as a Mexican, I really did like the video overall, you have a very good grasp on the language of film that showcases what something is really saying whether intentional or not.
Replying to hopefully bump this comment up. I love Jessie and the vid but I still want to thank you for raising these criticisms of the video!
The del Toro thing is the only thing that's a bit iffy. He has a contract with Netflix and they're putting out one of his movies later this year. They could very well have leveraged their power to make him say something. I'm not saying that couldn't have just had a bad take on a movie but his ties to Netflix and the fact he usually doesn't talk about new movies make it a bit dubious
incredibly important comment, replying to bump it up
Check the pinned comment from the channel
This needs to be pinned
I just can't accept that Guillermo del Toro wasn't being held at gunpoint by Netflix when he praised Emilia Pérez... Or that was clone, not him. I'm in denial.
James Cameron watched it three times and praised it too. 😒
Nah these guys just have to be lying, cause I refuse to believe that they just have a terminal lack of taste
They're all in one group, LA burning is sign of how corrupt these people are
Early onset dementia?
@@stellviahohenheim I mean, until proven otherwise, "Liar liar pants on fire" is one of the more reasonable explanations I've heard for how it started...
I thought it was just some cringe internet joke when I first heard the lyrics "From pen*s to va-giii-naaa", but nope. That was an actual song in an actual film. And the movie is nominated for Best Picture, plus apparently 10 other Oscars.
I just... I just can't.
I thought it was from a skit 😭
Isn’t that from the weird ultra-clean surgical place scene though ?
@Im_bor3d0 I did too!! 😭
The liberal insistence on putting civility over the safety of the marginalized always reminds me of this quote from Frankenstein: "There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?"
That quote is from the Creature. He says this in response to the suggestion that his lashing out against the humans who have done nothing but abuse and attempt to kill him his entire life somehow retroactively justifies their cruelty towards him. That by daring to bite the hand that beats, the beating was earned. It's a bullshit notion that the Creature rightfully calls out. And it's a notion that's still far too prevalent more than two centuries later.
I'm tired of the democratic party overwhelmingly being complicit with systems that perpetuate our oppression, discrimination, marginalization, and persecution. Instead of addressing the root causes of systemic harm, they rely on small incremental changes that fail to create meaningful structural transformation.
It's like trying to fix a road full of craters, massive cracks, and missing sections with just a bucket of black tar-offering temporary patches instead of rebuilding the foundation from the ground up.
Speaking as somebody who's a "child of two worlds" (born to a liberal family + raised on progressivist ideals, and sympathetic to both sides), you're *really* not wrong, and I hate that as much as you do. I'm so sick of people commodifying minorities while doing nothing to assist them from actual bigots who want them dead. Empathy should be unconditional regardless of who you are, and sometimes trying to call peace between one side that wants you dead and the other who just wants to exist is a fool's errand.
Well put. Reminds me of how people prioritise the feeeelings of Israelis over the human rights of Palestinians.
I want to frame your comment.
@solinaotero ditto
the first time i tried to watch emilia pérez, i got so bored that i skipped to the end, and seeing the movie end with THEIR TRANS PROTAGONIST BEING DEADNAMED, MISGENERED, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY DYING WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD was so shocking that i just started cackling like a madman
The way she just gets shoved in a trunk and then dies there because two cis people are fighting was so silly lol
@@paleposter the fact Emilia’s last words are Jessi’s name feels so …
Johanne Sacreblue is going to culturally outlive Emilia Perez. I'm calling it.
Fingers *Tightly* crossed🤞
As a cis man, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this video. I read all the backlash before I actually got to watch EP, and while I did understand on a basic level after watching it that it was transphobic, my first reaction was along the lines of “actually, this doesn’t seem nearly as problematic as people are saying.” But because I’m not part of that community, I was willing to take the community’s word for it rather than to “well ackshually” it and claim it isn’t that bad. This video is super helpful, from an outsider’s perspective, in understanding just where the problems lie.
Cis woman here and I feel exactly the same. I watched it before knowing how hated it was (or why) and was just disappointed by the unpleasant music and strangely arranged story... I'm grateful to understand its much bigger negative implications thanks to this video. Honestly I feel silly for not noticing most of this while watching the movie, but I'm looking forward to consuming media in a more reflective and critical way from here onward.
The fact this movie won the best foreign language film golden globe as a representation of latin american struggle over 'I'm Still Here', wich is an actual latin american movie made by actual latin americans in Latin America, will never not piss me off as a brazillian and i'll never shut up about it. It really goes to show how fickle and performative the claims of the academy and the industry about caring about for latin and global suthern art really are. The global north only wants the aesthetics of us and our cultures, without actually having us be in it, cuz to them we're not people, we are just commodities to be extracted for their consumption
Edit after I finished watching it: I loved the video, but as a latin american trans person, i can't help but wish it would have delved deeper on the imperialistic aspect of this movie and its reception, as that is as much of a problem as its transphobia. The history of exploitation and violence against us at the hands of the global north is just as extensive as the history of transphobia in the USA, and just as bloody too. Operation Condor is a great example of this. Multiple of our countries were politically destabilized and forced into authoritarian military dictatorships by the USA, for the sake of stopping our progress and to keep us as a source of cheap labor and resources to fuel the global nothern economy, at a great cost to our peoples, who were subjulgated to all kinds of violence under these regimes. Similar things have happened multiple times throughout our histories and to this day, with some being as recent as last decade, and with the current win of the alt right in the United States, there is a very high risk of it happening again, as Trump has already threatened our sovereignties multiple times in his less than one month old mandate. This type of exploitation is perpetuated against us, partially cuz much like trans people, we, and the rest of the global south aswell, are completely dehuminized by the global north, and such dehuminization is perfectly reinforced and encapsulated by this film, its reception and its very nature as a french representation of México. This imperialism and its consequences are the subject of "I'm Still Here", the film snubbed by this movie in the golden globes, which really adds to the grossness and disrespect of it all. The problem with Emília Perez goes beyond just your run of the mill racism, as the video seemed to imply to me, (although even if it was just that, that'd still be just as worthy of the same coverage as the transphobia), the problem with it is IMPERIALISM, and i'm kind of disapointed at how brushed aside that was, compared to the rest. I get that it's a video made by a trans person from the USA, so it's obvious it would focus on the thing that applies to them, but still, i still think it could have been better? Idk. Perhaps I'm totally tripping balls rn and expecting the wrong people to speak up about this, but I just wish you united statians, particularly the white ones, would acknowledge this type of oppression and the importance of highlighting it, just as much as you do the oppression you experience. To be clear, I'm not trying to hate, as I still deeply appriciate the video. Regardless of anything, I still want to thank Jesse for talking about it
100%, it's disgusting
The Golden globes was made by rich fans of Hollywood so that they could hang with the stars look it up
Just some addendum, mexican law system doesn't have jury trials.
An important detail that further demonstrates they did not bother to do any research at all
I want this movie to flop so hard, dude.
@@l.franciscobattista2559 well the director basicaly said he didnt wanted to do any research
@@Rebelconot only did he not want to do any research but he also said that he already knew what he had to know
@@annee.p9885 stereotypes
as a mexican, i really cannot stress enough how bad the accent and dialogue is in the movie. i know it's covered in the video but it truly is embarrassing, it is south park caricature levels of bad
All the controversy of this movie has shielded the makeup and prosthetic artist(s) who did her god awful masculinized makeup job. White Chicks was more convincing.
Yes! That was high school play level bad.
It looked like something out of a Daily Wire production
Was getting big Lion Vibes from the pre transition view
And they got an Oscar nomination for best makeup!!! 😮😮😮 The academy didn't nominate Beetlejuice nor Dune and they gave a nomination to this!!!!
Something that I see too many people gloss over is that they basically did brownface for Manitas' scenes. Besides the masculinization make up they obviously darkened the skin of the actress (wonder if Zoe Zaldaña shared some tips) because she is a white woman, a spaniard playing the role of a mexican woman of color.
pretty obvious brownface too, Zoe's looked bad and was terrible but at least there was an effort lol the pre-transition scenes looked like someone who noticed the foundation she picked is several shades too dark and tried to cover up as much as possible to keep it even
Somehow this film (and some of the folks behind it) just gets worse the more think about it or look into it.
On a lighter note I do laugh when you keep my little editorial outbursts.
I feel so bad for you having to read it But at least it was someone fun
The comments by the director about the spanish language and Karla Sofia Gascon's racist controversies kind of helped with that
There's a meme going around here in Brazil that says "The worst headline about Emília Perez is always the next one" or "A pior notícia sobre Emília Perez é sempre a próxima". Though I have some difficulty imagining what will come out next that's worse than Karla Sofia Gascón's hateful tweets.
Your outbursts help me remember that not everyone has chucked their brains in a blender.
I love the "Vera goes off script" moments.
Not only that, but the trivialization of the Madres Buscadoras and the fight they represent, mothers who search tirelessly for their disappeared loved ones in cartel violence against all mexican institutions and even retribution from the cartels, is one of the main critiques people in Mexico got about the movie. I'm still missing watching it, but I don't want to pay for it lol.
Yourserie can help you my friend
time to sail the seven seas. Might i recommend the megathread of the r/p*r*cy (censoring just in case) subreddit?
@@papadivertida i’d add FMHY to this as well, highly recommend.
I just need to inform you that there's a scene where a family member who was looking for a missing loved one kisses Emilia's hand like... woof man, the disrespect was truly something
Watching Karla Sofía Gascón completely ruin Emilia Perez’s Oscar campaign by the resurfacing of her insane tweets has a wild ride and I hope it causes the biggest flip in Oscar’s history
Unfortunately I think this would have been the case a couple of years ago, when cancel culture has some bite. Now it's just going to be ignored or lazily swept under the rug. Mark my words, EP will win a whole lot of academy awards
I feel like netflix is gonna pay for awards
I'm just sad she had to sink Fernanda Torres and I'm still here with her 😭 oscar doesn't like controversy, and now it seems like look: the Latinas are fighting. If course they don't deserve the white civilized oscar
@@srtatropicalia Karla Sofía Gascón is white, She's Spanish, not Latina at all ( Hispanic because that includes Spain, but she's White)
It's a legitimate shame that it took her attacking numerous other minorities for people to cancel the movie, since Mexicans have been saying over and over again that the movie is racist and disrespectful. But I'm still glad that the movie is getting torn apart, I just wished they attacked Audiard as much as they do Karla Sofía. He deserves it as well
This movie feels like it's from 2003, and I mean that in the worst way possible. Also I listened to this whole video while drawing. Your anger was cathartic to listen too. I feel so validated in my frustration and anger. Anger is a powerful tool in face of injustice, and yours reminded me that I am allowed to wield mine. Thank you.
Not the "Adult Disney Fans" on the Big Wheel of Marginalization! 🤣
Amazing video
They are marginalized, and The Autistic Sonic Fans™ are the oppressors
Would kinda want to see the full list of categories on the wheel. :D
@@oergpoerg4658
Tag yourself, I'm "Adult who says 'Cool Beans'" 😂:
The Transgenders
Pumpkin Spice Advocates
Gamers(TM) Finally Seen
White Savior but Hide it Better
Black People but “Urban Gangsters”
Adults who say “Cool Beans”
Black People
The College Guitar Guy who only plays “Wonderwall”
White Woman with adopted Black kid good at sports
Tiktok Refugees
Adopted orphan good at a sport
The Overhydrated
Deaf gay cowboys
Adult Disney Fans
Here they are, for convenience’s sake:
Black people
Adults who say “Cool Beans”
The college guitar guy who only plays Wonderwall
White women with adopted Black kid good at sports
TikTok refugees
Adopted orphans good at sports
The over hydrated
Deaf gay cowboys
Adult Disney fans
The transgenders
Pumpkin spice advocates
Gamers finally seen
White savior but hide it better
Black people but “urban gangsters”
Hi Jessie! Happy to see myself in one of your videos, noice! Anyway, as for Netflix's censorship, Karla Sofia Gascon's tweets have surfaced and even tho she deleted her Xitter account. The tweets that surfaced are even worse than what we knew about yesterday, she even has hate for my particular region of Spain (Catalonia) so now it's even a bit more personal, hahahaha.
Aaaanyway I would hand you translations of the tweets but I don't want to type so so so so so many slurs
Karla Borró la cuenta antes de que se encontraran los tuits justificando las conquistas de genghis khan
They found a tweet criticizing Selena Gomez years ago 😂
What did she said about Cataluña? 😮
Also there are ableist comments, she is really a terrible person
no dejó ni una sola comunidad, etnia o nacionalidad sin ofender jajaja sus niveles de hater son increibles
@@Frikilicious If I had to guess, given that she is from Madrid, something shitty about the Catalonian independence referendum or just their drive for independence from Spain.
@@setrouf I'm sorry, justifying WHAT?!?!
So wild the director brags about doing no research. That’s like an author bragging about having never read anything in their life
I've seen lawyers bragging about being too lazy to read a single paragraph. So sad to see this is becoming a trend
This reminds me of the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
@@limendime3720 As a Jew I totally agree
I mean the POTUS isn’t qualified for anything yet is the 45th and 47th president.
Reminds me of Ridley Scott bragging about Napoleon, how he didn't care that he got everything wrong.
"I'm spanish, and I needed subtitles to understand Selena Gomez speaking Spanish"
Ah, I had the same problem with "Un prophéte", the french movie, also by Jacques Audiard. Despite being french and the characters speaking French, I also need subtitles to understand half of the dialogues. So this is actually a recurent problem with the director... more a sound problem in his other movie, but I guess it's worst with Emilia Perez.
Yo MJ!!! Ça m'étonne pas que tu sois ici lol toujours du bon goût
@@Elijah_Kujo Pourtant j'ai cité le travail de Jessie une ou deux fois dans mes vidéos.
In Emilia Perez it's not a sound problem, everyone speaks terrible spanish. Selena speaks gibberish almost in every scene she appears. Zoe Saldaña speaks like a robot and Sofia Gascón has a very thick castilian accent (not sounding mexican at all)
Not in this case, 1000% nothing to do with sound but the speech and pronunciation of the actors is genuinely gibberish, they are not saying anything correctly enough to fully understand the only exception is Gascón but it’s jarring because anyone from Latin America can tell she is a Spaniard with her thick Spanish accent and the movie presents her as Mexican.
Also, Karla Sofía Gascón's Golden Globes dress was based off Thai Buddhist monk robes. She said this during her speech. But then she recited Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (a Japanese Nichiren Buddhist phrase) when Nichiren Buddhists do not wear Thai style robes. And the shawl on her dress is backwards, over the wrong shoulder. And while Thailand does allow transwomen to ordain (ciswomen are not), the monastic vows require shaving the hair/eyebrows and removing all adornments. No makeup, no jewelry. That dress was very much a costume
I think one of the worst parts of this is it only reaffims to Hollywood elites that this is GOOD. That this is what trans people and Mexican people want. That all the nominations warrant this piece of garbage being seen as positive representation to them. It's not good for us trans folks, it's good for the film industry's egos.
What a moment to be both Mexican and Trans so I can be double misrepresented by this stupid movie
As a mexican have been following the twitter debacle of Karla's tweets (thank you brazillian bros for making all the digital archeology work) and they kept getting worse.
Horrible person in the present has been a horrible person in the past, no surprises.
Exactly 💯
"being lgtbq doesn't take away being stupid....."
Oh, we're really good doing that.
If ya mess with us, we'll find all your sins
cancelling doesn't work on these people because they're shameless
23:30 Cyberpunk 2020/Red/Edgerunners/2077 note: Mike Pondsmith's cyberpsychosis is a metaphor for anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and roid rage. It is not a trans metaphor at all. He made a note that non-violent modifications and sex changes have no chance of cyberpsychosis or lowering Empathy. Cyberpunk 2077 goes one step further by making it clear cyberpsychosis doesn't exist and is a condition that police use to blame economic as well as mental issues.
Also conceptually it originated as a gameplay mechanic first and a lore explanation second. They needed a reason to limit the modifications player characters would get and provide GMs easy justification for using highly modified people as bosses.
Interestingly on the flip-side, in the universe of Warhammer 40,000 the concept of cyberpsychosis does not exist at all and there's an entire faction who openly celebrate the cybernetic modification of their own bodies, going as far as to make it a fundamental pillar of their religion.
This one felt like such an oddly sudden callout. I am curious to know her more detailed thoughts on it, as I have never heard anyone with this interpretation--I have a hard time believing anyone engaging seriously with the Cyberpunk franchise could see it as transphobic. I could maybe see coming to that conclusion if you get the cliff notes version of cyberpychosis, I suppose, but I think Jessie'd be surprised if she took a deeper look.
@@asteroidrules praise the omnissiah!
@@asteroidrules yeah like, idk if this is true but i did hear that originally the plan was to have the drawback/limit be around the corporations owning a PC's cyberware, how if a PC had cyberware from competing companies they wouldn't work together well and would affect the PC's ability to do things
but there were so many variations to take into account it was getting to be a ridiculous slog, so they worked out cyberpsychosis instead as a more streamlined mechanic
again, this is just stuff i heard online so idk how true it is, but yeah
I was looking for this comment and was ready to write it down if I couldn't find it. I think the issue is that Edgerunners didn't have enough time to make clear how Cyberpsychosis actually works and what it really means. Probably Jessie only watched Edgerunners (not to invalidate her opinion, it is a fact that, although unintentional, that interpretation can be perceived if you only watch the show), because even in the videogame it's rather clear that "Cyberpsychosis" is an oversimplified term that society uses to categorise a whole bunch of different mental issues, some of which are only vaguely related to the cybernetics in question, and it's caused more by a lack of empathy, isolation and by the act of detaching oneself from their body by seeing it as a tool or a weapon.
The descriptions in Cyberpunk RED only help make this clear, with how Cyberpsychosis is literally tied to the "Empathy" stat and it straight up describes gender transition as something that doesn't alter the humanity of the patient, same as a purely needed prosthetic (like replacing a missing limb) or cosmetic cyberware like tattoos, those cyber-hair implants and etc.
Cyberpunk is one of the most trans-inclusive settings I know, but I can see how Jessie would miss this if she only watched Edgerunners.
The gall of the casting director to say they did a big search in "all Latin America" is astounding. Can't she tell a lie like that won't fly? You made a big casting search in over a dozen countries? You flew your casting crew to over a dozen countries? Seriously?
Transwomen/transfeminine people visibly loving being women (speaking about Jessie, not Emilia), makes me so happy. I loved hearing her say "It's like a little flower". 🏳️⚧️
We, Latin America, fucking hate that movie. Thanks for making this video.
De verdad que horror de película.
Tendremos nuestras diferencias, pero creo que todos estamos de acuerdo en que esta pelicula es horrible.
@@rockargen9591 com certeza
@@rockargen9591 não tem diferença que faça alguém achar esse filme de merda bom. Força irmãos
Um filme completamente de merda, não acredito que ele que tá contra nosso filminho br
Mexicans hate this movie so much, they say it's the French taking revenge for 5 de Mayo (As a JOKE -clarifying since some seemed confused).
But really, I bet these jerks get their rocks off of having a trans woman who happens to be not the best person in the world on their film so they can pretend all their harmful stereotypes are validated.
Btw, wasn't Mignonnes/Cuties (2020) also from France?
As a Mexican and a Linguist, I should say that some stuff like "resetear" is not super uncommon here in the Northwest frontier (we use a lot of English-borrowed words), but since this movie is set in Mexico City, it does sound ridiculous and unauthentic.
Thank you so much for this analysis, Jesse. The way they are trying to censor you just speaks about their hypocrisy, willing to affect trans people's livelihoods to silence criticism of their garbage movie. Love you, please take care.
As a French person, I'm sorry. This is too serious to be portrayed by people with no experience with it
Honestly tho, with Cuties at least the director was depicting her own experience and took precautions by having therapists and other safety measures on set.
YMMV on wether that's enough or not and how scandalous the dance scenes were (for example in my country dancing like that is very common even at a young age due to the populatity of reggaeton) but overall the movie mostly uncomfortable due to how realistic so much of it is (youtuber Khadija Mbowe did a video about if memory serves well and went into more detail about the experiences of being a young black girl from the same culture).
Emilia Pérez is just awful in every front as it touched upon many complex and important topics and then just marches right along with another terrible song. The directos clearly knew absolutely nothing about everything that was central to the story and it shows.
France is well over 5 de mayo, we don't even remember we were involved at all.
@@ameliecarre4783 Neither do we. 😂
It's like St. Patrick's Day, it's now an American holiday.
both it and cuties terrible films pushing terrible things while being over praised by corrupt media, no surprises there
France is just getting worse and worse, even back in the day so much yikes to some films
Netflix is so cooked and so are the Oscars. Also, France should’ve just chosen ‘All We Imagine As Light’ and called it a day. It was an easier bet because it won the Grand Prix at Cannes. Just an innocuous hot take from me.
P.S. Sorry to hear about all the s**t Netflix put you through.
Netflix been cooked for a while...they are just burnt now.
i'd personally say cremated, but sadly that would imply Netflix is dead. Unfortunate really.
'All We Imagine As Light' is Indian not French. And yes, India should've chosen it.
@ It was a French co-production, just like ‘Santosh’ was an Indian movie but had British producers.
I'm just here to promote the series 'El Secreto Del Rio' which is available on Netflix and has been nominated in the Latine GLAAD Awards. The reason for promoting it any chance I get is because we need more Indigenous representation and it's not often you see the Muxes being represented in media.
Ah yes a movie set in Mexico by a french director. I'm sure there's no way this could go wrong
E o elenco principal não tem mexicanos.
And it wasn't filmed in mexico either
It only have a few drone shots of Mexico city, the director said that the Mexican streets were too long, narrow and noisy
Almost saying, mexican streets are not mexican enough to me 😅
French movie in Mexico that talks about a cartel boss transitioning. Yeah no wonder the french director who filmed it in Paris had no idea what he was doing.
This director is "narcisistic French artist" stereotype come to life
Did they seriously use “bienvenida” when saying “You’re welcome”? Like how you say “you’re welcome” after someone thanks? I’m not a native/fluent Spanish speaker and even I know it is supposed to be “de nada” and not “bienvenida”!
You're right. I highly suspect that they wrote the script in french and Google translated it into English and then into Spanish
Any first year Spanish student could have told them that. "Bienvenida," means, "Welcome," as in, "Welcome to my home." It is _not_ interchangeable with, "De nada," just because the English words are homonyms.
It's like they translated it with Google or something
@@chelidonsz Even Google knows the difference between "bienvenida" and "de nada" if you translate "welcome" and "you're welcome".
@@rockargen9591 yeah, i mean, it's completely unjustifiable. It feels like absolute disregard for mexican culture, they just didn't care enough
Yea those tweets are beyond horrible what is her problem!???
She is very dumb. She made a statement saying that Fernanda torres’team was playing dirty with her and her movie.
What Brazilians did? Went directly to her tweets and review all the sh!t.
She doesn’t know the number one rule of internet: don’t mess up with Brazilians. They will eat you alive in internet.
If she didn’t say nothing about Torres, no one will noticed her past.
She is a racist white european, easy as that.
Gotta love the whole "campaign of hate and misinformation" when the source is literally horrifically racist things she's said and tweeted, completely unprompted.
Hello, Mexican here,
You are correct, the director is lazy, he did little to no research about Mexico, Mexican culture nor our country's problems.
I’ve seen a bunch of reviewers say Jessie is gonna take the kids and leave Mexico, but she says they’re going to live in Polanco - which is just an upscale neighborhood in Mexico City
Johanne Sacrebleu, a mexican parody of Emilia Perez. Is more better and it was directed by transwoman mexican comedian. Right now they are crowfunding for the full length movie!
Just a quick correction: Kimberly Peirce, the director of Boys Don't Cry, is actually genderqueer! There's an interesting article where she describes how her own identity was a driving force in making the film, even if she didn't fully understand it at the time. ("As ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Joins National Film Registry, Kimberly Peirce Addresses Its Complicated History")
I think that the inclusion of John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig at 1:20:35 was supposed to be an example of a man playing a trans woman, so I also want to give a shout-out to him coming out as nonbinary in 2022.
And honestly in this movie cis actress can make sense. Its real story about a person whos never been in medical transition process. Yes even better us been find a actor who is trans before medical transition - but i guess it can be super hard.
So its different situation and story...
@@IwonaKlich The article I mentioned actually has a section where Peirce says that she spent 3 years auditioning a lot of different people role of Brandon, including trans men, drag kings, and at least two transmasculine artists who likely weren't yet out at the time (Silas Howard and Harry Dodge).
She goes on to say that Hilary Swank was ultimately cast because she was the best fit for the role. Jessie rightly criticizes that all too common "We just cast the best actor who happened to not be a part of the community we're supposed to be representing" excuse (I can't help but make a mental connection between Peirce's explanation for casting a woman as Brandon Teena and that casting director's explanation for not casting any Mexican women as the leads in Emilia Pérez), but at least as far as trans representation goes, I personally am willing to extend more grace to older films for making that mistake--at least as long as I'm able to find other sources of validation within the work.
@@IwonaKlich"Romeos" cast a cis guy and added prosthetics. While not perfect, casting a man over a woman for a trans guy is always better. The alternative continues to paint trans men as weird tomboys and why people like ScarJo or Halle Berry are still being offered roles of playing trans men. There's no reason a cis person of the opposite gender should play a trans person.
Thank you for this information. Not saying this about Jessie but sometimes when trying to amplify openly lgbt voices, which is obviously good, a lot of assumptions are made about people's identities!
A video critique of a movie that's even longer than that movie, but (unlike the subject matter) it earns every minute.
I am mexican and the get pregnant line in the surgery song legit i tought they were asking about whe she would open her own firm, like as a lawyer. Despacho in some places of mexico means a law firm. The translation is so bad is literally confusing
🤣
Are we sure that isn't the intent? I thought the point was "I can't open my own office because I am brown and need money"
Here to defend Edgerunners the tiniest bit. Jesse's analysis is entirely valid from a trans lens, for sure. But alternatively I read the body modifications and the resulting "insanity" they cause as a metaphor for power. The more power a person gains, the more they lose their sense of self, and the more violent they become.
Agreed. Mainly when the game introduces Claire Russell as a non-enhanced street racer and firmly separates body modifications from real-world trans surgery.
iirc the original intention with the Cyber psycho system in the TTRPG was that the corpos making the products you're using began to literally take over your mind, combine that with hackers and the final product's ship of theseus themes, and you get the final version in the game and the show.
also (from the ttrpg and some lore bits in the games) "biosculpting" (basically "normal" surgeries, including gender affirming operations and the like) explicitly DON'T cause cyberpsychosis; the effect is caused by the extensive use of cyberware that stretches your ability waaay beyond what normal humans can do, and even then [SPOILERS] the actual reason for the psychosis is more of a mixture of that feeling of alienation, shoddy cyberware sold by the corporations to make easy bucks and mental trauma (e.g.: for living in a world were violence is so engrained in society that murder and most crimes are basically performed with impunity, knowingly being ruled by megacorps etc etc), we see characters that by all conventional metrics should be cyberpsychos (Adam Smasher in er/2077 or, for a less villanous example, Songbird in Phantom Liberty, both have basically all body converted in cyberware) that are actually sane (for a given definition of "Sane" in Smasher's case) due to them having access to top-of-the-line cyberware (from either Arasaka or the NUSA); meanwhile some people are on the edge of psychosis despite relatively small modifications (e.g.: Johnny Silverhand "only" has a metal arm, but it's canon that that was enough to get him close to the edge due to him also being a war veteran and other life experiences).
The anime doesn't do a SUPER great job at explaining it (mostly because it's not common knowledge and none of the characters are necessarily in a position to find it out), but even then when Maine and David are losing it we see that they mainly are having visions tied to significant and/or traumatic moments of their lives (and that the implants are put in through horribly unsafe means: David's Sandevistan gets basically bolted to his spine while he is awake and at best under not very effective pain meds given that he appears foaming at the mouth and suffering)
In some editions, there was a capitalistic rat-race element to it - it was entirely possible to reduce cyberpsychosis to practically nothing by properly adjusting cyberware to the person implanted with them and providing therapy to help them get used to it. Unfortunately, that requires time and money that almost no-one in the setting has, while practically everyone needs increasingly more cyberware to keep pace.
@@LordInsane100Yup you take time to get therapy (if you even have the money) and your competition has that latest body mods and take all your jobs. Money one could have used to upgrade themselves further and get ahead.
It's really one of your best videos and I respectfully hope Netflix backs the frack down.
"Vaaaaaaggggiiiinnnoooplaaaaaastyyyyyy" and I suddenly had the urge to take a long pull from my 12 year single malt. A *really* long pull. I mean it's ok to guzzle brown liquor at 9:30 AM. It's ok.. right?
In such dire situations as this? Yes.
As my friends and I say: "date" meaning, go ahead, haha
After hearing the musical portions, I had to wonder. Did they put the dialogue through an AI rhyming algorithm to come up with the lyrics? Come to think of it, was the script written by AI?
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t At this point, I hope so. I hate generative AI, but at least it'd take out the responsibility of the script writers. Technically can't get ragged on if you didn't write it... but VERY much _can_ get ragged on for approving it.
I see it as a toss-up: 50/50 chance it's human or AI.
In 2025, yes
Re: smelling like his dad, I think you're probably completely right because the movie is not thinking this deeply, but I do remember Emilia revealing early on that she's be on hormones for 2 years. That's a pretty young child, so does it make sense as a headcanon that "dad's smell" still refers to how she was after the hormones started?
That's what I thought while watching, but Jessie is probably right that the writers weren't that far ahead
I was thinking the same thing, but i don't know how much do hormones make you smell like Coca Cola Light with lemon and ice cubes.
They probably tried to imply she smelled... You know, as a mexican since the comments about "guacamole and motor oil" wich is commonly associated with us.
@@kedamono6282 Ew yeah, you're right. IDK why I even wanted to headcanon this movie, it's not that good
Haha this was the exact nitpicky "complaint" I had
+I'd argue the kid isn't listing what Emilia actually smells like? He's using kid language to communicate that his dad's (on HRT) smell brings up memories. "We went hiking" - "You smell like mountains", "I watched you fix our car" - "like motor oil", "we'd watch tv on the couch" - "like the coke we drank". Anecdotally, my mom smells like lullabies ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯
(That's at least the cope-y reasoning I'm clutching onto since I want the scene to be sweet 😂)
@Mockingdragon Don't worry, i think it's completly fair and constructive to headcanon positive things about this or any movie. Me, personally, i headcanon it as a comedy (because it had ALL the potential to be a funny one)
I’m Still Here is the real latino movie of this season, can finally award a best actress award to a latina, and has the potential to upstage Emilia Perez in International Film.
If we all rally around it, I’m Still Here can top Emilia Perez in International Film, and then Emilia Perez will be completely cooked.
No wonder Gascón was attacking Torres!
There's still demi moore though. I'm optimistic for fernanda but hollywood is still hollywood
@ Oh, Demi winning for actress I’m completely fine with. It’s in International Feature Film that I’m rooting for an upset.
@@daniellebittencourt9820 The win would definitely make Fernanda Montenegro proud, that's for sure.
it's so funny to me that everyone thinks the exwife is moving away from mexico because the movie makes it this big deal. shes moving to another neighborhood in mexico city, like 5 blocks away from where she is at lol
Classic confirmation bias. This movie just gives non-trans folk what they want without challenge. Affirms what they know and having what you know affirmed feels good.
There are so many things wrong with the movie, but it really did not need to be a musical. It has massive issues with it's transphobia and racism, but it just did not need to be a musical.
Yeah the subject manor is too complicated to be done as musical, especially from someone who never wrote one.
@@Dave102693I don’t think the subject matter is too complicated, but it was NOT executed well
I don't get it 😭why even make it like that? he could have just made a movie about a french trans woman 😭
or is it that he thinks there is no organized crime in france? just in "savage" countries like mexico? 😭
maybe it's revenge for emily in paris?
Exoticism, a well known racist trope
He thinks France is civilized and Spanish is a language for more "uncivilised" people... he literally said it was a language for "poor people and migrants". So yea, definitely rooted in racism
hmmmm emilia perez... emily in paris... a little too similar
It should really demonstrate the director’s transphobia to have Emilia drop into a “masculine voice” post-transition, because doing so literally undercuts his own storytelling, and the meal he tries to make of her reveal. Like he was more concerned with being transphobic than making a good movie.
Also, that car explosion ending feels like something out of Netflix’s black comedy horrors (like the killer babysitter series), but they tried to use it in earnest this time.
I’m both trans and Latino. My mom found out about a movie about a trans woman from latinoamerica and she was really excited to watch it with me. She then found out about what the movie was actually like. This is fucking terrible, I can’t believe this movie is getting awards
Guys, I'm on her super-secret patreon level, where Jessie sings through the essay. It's like the voice of an angel
Before I even see the video, here's what I know:
1) It's a musical about a trans, mexican woman.
2) Every single Mexican seems to detest the movie if they've seen it.
3) The trans community either pretends it doesn't exist, or calls it out as bad representation.
4) The protagonist sing like shit (judging by the one clip i've seen).
So, it really seems the movie is uh... not promising. Let's see what the hate was about.
They said they had to use AI to help Karla Sofia Gascon to reach the notes of the songs 😂
As a musician, the high notes are obviously electronically corrected, and still sound horrible
2:13 i thought people were exaggerating about this movie being horrible but the way my jaw literallly DROPPED
So far this is the best review I've seen of the movie. Many American media and creators have only focused on the transphobia of the film and have ignored the racism, just as they have focused on criticizing Selena and Karla, but without highlighting the horrible FRENCH creative team. As a Mexican trans person, I expected the film to touch my identity fibers, but I think what hurt me the most was the theme (and conceptual treatment) of people who have "disappeared." It is a very complicated tragedy, where not only drug trafficking is involved but also the State. The violence experienced in the country is heartbreaking, and using the issue as a narrative pretext is selfish on the part of the film's director. There are more than 100,000 missing people in Mexico, and many people (especially mothers) are risking their lives to find their relatives every day.
Thank you for this video, your research and your time. I sincerely hope that our lives as trans and queer people continue to flourish and that we continue to grow and survive, together.
little known fact: the title of this film is "Emilia Pérez" due to its phonetic similarity to "Emily in Paris", a famously faithful depiction of life in France, mirroring the accuracy and respect with which this story reflects Mexican culture.
Netflix - I seriously thought you couldn't do any worse. But congrats.
I'd been meaning to cancel my rarely used Netflix subscription for months, but just never made the time to do it. After 2 hours and 12 minutes of "Emilia Perez" (I went into it knowing nothing but the title and that it had been nominated for some awards somewhere) I made the time. No mo' Netflix.
Forgotten about Cuties already, have you?
(Oh yes, Master Yoda I am)
2 WEEKS! IT TOOK A WHOLE 2 WEEKS FOR MY BODY SMELL TO CHANGE ON HRT
It was about the same for me, and I had started out microdosing. I dunno though, maybe that kid is a werewolf. Which I would still say is bad representation.
This is fast food for americans. The accents are so bad those people shouldn't even be considered latin. And the main lead is from Spain. Why didn't they find one actress with a proper accent?
Because and I quote: they couldn't find any good Mexican actors
@@airplanes_aren.t_real🤢🤮
@@airplanes_aren.t_real maybe if they would have worked with a Mexican casting agency... just saying.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real This is always shorthand for "They're not white so we assumed they wouldn't be any good and didn't look"
It's more Fast Food from the French. I blame the Cannes audience.
I do want to correct one thing with Giancarlo Esposito's section. Yes, he was born in Denmark, but his family moved to NYC when he was 6 so that hardly matters. What's wild about his casting isn't that he was born in Denmark, but that his family (to my knowledge) isn't at all Spanish regardless of where he was born. He's not ethnically Danish though either. His father is from Italy and his mother is from Alabama. I think he did the best he could when it came to the Spanish speaking parts and I'm glad this show was a saving grace for him, but it would've been nice to see a Chilean actor in the place of Gus Fring. Or at least to have had him spend more time with a vocal coach OR dubbing his Spanish lines with a proper Chilean speaker. There are always options!
I have a psychiatric disability and i am isolated socially. While having nightly terrors, i was able to put on this video and it helped me calm down, even though i couldnt really follow the topic at the moment. I Just Like the way Jessie talks and sounds. Dear Ms Gender, Thank You, Stay Safe and keep up the good work esp. the Star Trek stuff :)
Even as someone who has little to no respect for the Oscars, I was so happy to see the best animated feature category filled with all the movies that I watched and loved (shame Transformers One didn't get a nomination, but it will get its flowers one way or another). This is a rare year where I'd be happy if any of those beautiful works of art win. But knowing that this horrible, offensive movie gets as many nominations as Oppenheimer, with none of them being deserved... I'm just dreading the upcoming ceremony more than anything.
An indie animated feature getting a win and Demi Moore’s inevitable Best Actress win will be the only highlights
Yeah. Emilia Perez is tied for 2nd largest # of nominations with a few other films (including Oppenheimer, like you mentioned), and it's probably also the nail-in-the-coffin for me as well. I don't think I can ever really hate the concept *behind* any of these award shows, I love giving artists of all kinds praise for their works and efforts, but in execution, I agree with you entirely. It's become a status symbol, more than a celebration, and that really hurts as an artist and film lover (I still agree that the animation category was really good though).
@@gemstone108inevitable my bottom half. She's gonna have to scuffle it with Torres
@@elfodelputoinfierno So long as it’s not Karla, it’ll be fine.
I know the point of making it a musical was as award bait. But there is so little effort in even making it a muscial. They just talk sing over a beat that sounds more like a copyright free music, than music that would have lyrics sung with it.
Still confused as to why they cast Selena Gomez who doesn't speak a lick of Spanish, how embarrassing. But she is a bigot like the lead actress so that's probably why. She basically said in a tweet that she doesn't care about Black Lives Matter and that in another tweet she also doesn't care about Palestinian children. While I think what is happening to migrants here in America being deported even the legal ones is heartbreaking and disgusting I think it's hypocritical for Selena to act like we should all be upset over this when she couldn't be bothered to give the same empathy when her fans were asking for her support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the call for a cease fire in Palestine.
I've been very skeptical of her personal views ever since she attended that megachurch in hollywood that was openly homophobic. Granted she apologized and distanced herself once controversy arose, but it's notable that she had no issue or criticisms before public attention was suddenly on the church.
If she is still evangelical, it wouldnt be a surprise that she wouldnt vocally support BLM, pro-palestine, or other social civil rights movements. The church has a long history of racism, christian z*onism (which is both antisemitic and anti-arab), and involvement in far-right political activism in the last several decades
On the smell thing I’d also add that saying a Mexican person smells like mezcal and guacamole is the goofiest possible way to be racist
1:01:51 no, no, no, no. They are saying rich MEXICAN people are bad! It is a totally different statement.
I remember the first time I saw Emilia Perez's infamous musical number, and I was just so utterly baffled by it. And yeah, the rest of the film is just as baffling.
you are here How interesting
I showed that to a friend and she didn't believe it wasn't a meme version of it
🎶 peenuuus tooo veggiiinnnnhaaa🎶
I’m bitter this is going to take the prize from “Seed of the Sacred Fig”. The director had to flee Iran for making it. Mohammad Rasoulof did not lose his country FOR THIS.
I’m curious how and if it can get worse. Karla praised Hitler and talked crap about Selena, the racism, Islamophobia. I mean what else can we pile on
Islam is truly dangerous though
Really could not help thinking throughout your synopsis/analysis how this movie could have been rewritten to be super interesting. Like what if instead of Rita being cis she’s a Black trans woman lawyer in Mexico who’s impacted by cartel violence, but feels like she has to help Emilia because Emilia will do bad things to her family if she refuses. And maybe Rita’s character would have a completely different transition, where she is open about her past and connected to her family and community, and maybe Emilia sees Rita living openly as a disadvantage at first but changes her mind when she becomes stifled by her own life in which she has no connection to her family and community. Could also be interesting if Rita had a harder time with transition financially than Emilia because she was caring for her family. Idk, the framing really truly did such a disservice and I get that cis ppl think everything is about them but a trans movie about trans people would be so much better
I’m obsessed that this video is 7 minutes longer than the actual movie.
Id like to congratulate Jessie on having also achieved best-boy-dom; I did something similar by winning Air Cadets before transitioning
I agree the smell thing is bs, but also if we assume that the child has a magical nose, Emilia did start transitioning and was on HRT for 2 years, during which the child could've gotten used to the smell. (I'm not trying to defend the movie, I'm trans too :3)
My transphobic father saw this movie and immediately came home to brag about how much he loved it as if that made him some sort of ally. Not surprised it's poor representation.
Bruh this movie feels more like a psy op for Republicans to justify anti trans rhetoric than an actual attempt at cinema.
Anti trans and anti Mexican, as well
As someone who is Autistic. Sia's Music is how I feel most Trans people feel about Emilia Perez. And Sia is in the list now of my personal enemies next to Jenny McCarthy, Butch Hartman (look up Hartman House), and the entire GOP.