"An LGBT Political Gospel"
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EMILIA PÉREZ is a deranged musical comedy slash crime drama. Money and power haven’t brough a violent Mexican drug lord much happiness. So, he hires a crooked attorney to send his wife and children away and get the best team of doctors to perform “sex change” operations on him. Years later, he poses as a cousin and returns to his wife to help her care for his children. He also falls in love with a new woman and shows regret for his former life as a vicious murderer. However, Juan, aka Emilia, can’t escape their past.
EMILIA PÉREZ wants to be a genre-busting movie. There’s plenty of misery in the crime drama, but nothing funny about the movie’s silly attempt at a musical. The first half details the violence of “sex change” surgery. The second half focuses on Juan/Emilia’s desire for redemption by helping others. EMILIA PÉREZ has an abhorrent Romantic, politically correct worldview that replaces the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a political gospel of insanity. It also has at least 30 “f” words, vicious violence and many crude sexual references.
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EMILIA PÉREZ is a deranged movie streaming on Netflix inspired by the 2018 French novel, “Ecoute,” which follows a violent Mexican drug lord on his transgender quest. The drug lord kidnaps a low-paid, crooked defense attorney in hopes of hiring her to send his wife and children away and find the best team of doctors to perform multiple surgeries to make him appear as a biological woman.
Years later, he returns for his children, falls in love with a new biological woman, and shows some regret for his former life as a vicious murderer. This abhorrent movie showcases humanity’s lowest, darkest elements, and promotes pseudoscientific sexual perversion.
EMILIA PÉREZ is a dark, twisted tale of the ruthless Mexican drug lord, Juan “Manitas” Del Monte. Juan has decided he has everything he wants – money, family, lust, and the ability to kill people freely. However, what is missing is his ability to feel like himself. He kidnaps a corrupt defense attorney, Rita, and convinces her to help him become a woman in exchange for two million dollars. Rita doesn’t deliberate long before she accepts the offer, even though Juan has recently consolidated his brutally murderous trafficking empire by killing off his competitors and buying politicians.
The first order of business is to send Juan’s wife and two children away to Switzerland. She then fakes his death. Rita finds Juan the best surgical team in a scene where each surgical procedure needed is chanted by what comes off as a demonic worship song. What’s worse is that everyone in that scene is smiling as they are either performing the mutilation of healthy parts of bodies or on the receiving end of the same mutilation. Juan awakens after many painful surgeries and renames himself Emilia Pérez.
Juan/Emilia is happy until he begins to miss his children. After four years, he once again employs Rita to help him. With Rita’s help, he reintroduces himself as Juan’s “cousin,” and his children and wife return to Mexico to live with him.
Juan/Emilia expresses some regret for his past crimes. He and Rita establish a not-for-profit agency dedicated to finding missing people in Mexico, victims of the drug and trafficking cartels. Juan/Emilia becomes a national hero.
Meanwhile, the former drug lord enjoys family life and falls in love with a different biological woman, one of the cartel victims that He and Rita help.
[POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW] However, things take a sharp turn when Juan’s wife decides she wants to marry the lover she took during the final days of their marriage. She also wants to take the children with her and her new husband to their new home.
Can Juan/Emilia escape the prison he’s built for himself?
A series of wrong decisions and tragedies occurs, leading to death and destruction. However, Juan’s transgender persona is lauded as a hero. Or, is that heroine?
EMILIA PÉREZ wants to be a genre-busting musical comedy slash crime drama. There’s plenty of misery in the crime and drama, but nothing is funny about this atrocious attempt at a musical. The movie’s first half details the violence of trying to change your biological identity as male or female. The second half focuses on Juan/Emilia’s desire for redemption by doing good and helping others.
The movie also asserts, “If one changes the body, one changes society, which changes the soul, which changes everything.” Huh? To say the movie lacks a good character arc or premise would be stating the least of its problems. The story enshrines unintelligible rambling. There are extreme differences between Juan, a vicious drug lord, and Emilia, a loving family member who lives a life of service.
Even the actor playing the title character discusses in an interview the difficulty of acting out both characters. He says, “I was coming in and out of character constantly, which was complete madness for me.” MOVIEGUIDE® agrees it came off as complete madness to us, as well. Some of the movie’s points about freedom, love and forgiveness mitigate the offenses. However, true liberation, love and forgiveness come from Jesus Christ and His Gospel, not lawless self-expression.
EMILIA PÉREZ has an abhorrent Romantic, politically correct worldview that replaces the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a political gospel of LGBT perversion. It also has at least 30 “f” words, vicious violence, some self-centered decision making, and many crude sexual references. Naturally, the woke leftist press and woke leftist filmmakers love it. Pray for their awakening
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