A Golden Globe-winning film about a transgender Mexican drug lord is embroiled in scandal after its star's past tweets resurfaced, revealing deeply offensive and discriminatory language. The film's awards campaign is imploding as the controversy highlights the absurdity of 'issue-bundling' in contemporary progressive politics.
Karla Sofía Gascón accepts the Best Motion Picture –Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for Emilia Pérez, Beverly Hills, California, 5 January 2025.Karla Sofía Gascón accepts the Best Motion Picture –Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for Emilia Pérez, Beverly Hills, California, 5 January 2025.Hailed as a progressive triumph, now it’s mired in scandal and acrimony. If that’s not a film for our troubled times, what is?is extremely watchable.
Emilia Pérez took $13.5m on a budget of $25m , so it’s fun to keep reading that it was a hit in cinemas. But as the world’s TV channel, Netflix has different metrics for success, and it’ll do well enough for them on the platform. What Netflix craves, though, is movie awards, so I’d love to know what the full-time Emilia Pérez awards team – who will have numbered in double figures – were doing instead of deleting Gascón’s old tweets.
A few months ago I was chatting to the pollster James Kanagasooriam about something, and he noted that “the left tends to issue-bundle”. Which feels a good way of putting it. Many people will have felt the increasingly illogical strictures of this all-or-nothing deal in recent years of supposed progressivism. It’s as though you can’t consider each subject or cause on what you, personally, judge to be its individual merits.
The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did it all go so wrong for the Oscar-nominated film and its star?On which, before we conclude, a note: I can’t stand that infantilising, hectoring phrase, which has spent the past decade being the laziest but most successful way to force someone to agree with you.
In fact, the present political climate in the US seems to have been exacerbated by people performing their endless taxonomy of what is and isn’t on the wrong side of history. It’s enough to make you feel that the left, who bang on about polarisation the whole time, are actually more invested in it than the right. The movie industry could always come up with a big-swing, important movie which explores that. And maybe, more people would go out and see it.
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