The victories of Emilia Pérez, a French musical about a Mexican transgender drug lord, at the Golden Globe Awards this weekend have prompted a wave of outrage and disgust in Mexico and throughout Latin America from critics who say the film trivializes the mass death caused by the drug war in that country.
Social media users in Mexico lamented the movie’s “stereotypes, ignorance, lack of respect, the exploitation of one of the gravest humanitarian crises in the world” following its wins. Critics lamented that the issue of transgender identity serves in the film to absolve a vicious drug lord of any responsibility in the destruction of thousands, if not millions, of lives. The criticism has swelled far beyond initial rejection of the movie by the Hispanic community when it was first released in November, when Hispanophone viewers lamented the poor quality of singer/actress Selena Gómez’s Spanish language proficiency on screen.
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