c_giordano1

Not only a lack of respect for the Mexican people and Mexican culture, but an absolute lack of respect for cinema as a whole, for the musical genre and for the public. The festivals and the critics have been bought, it's obvious.

When you make a musical and all your singers sing badly and the music is cheap, when you take a subject as serious as the disappearances of human beings by Mexican cartels and gender conversion and you make a funny choreography where they sing about sex change procedures and prices, when you decide to make songs in Spanish with people who don't speak Spanish and you don't even check if the phrases make sense, you are not taking your job or the cinema seriously at all. If you do that with a subject that is not yours and that is a sensitive subject for the culture you are trying to represent, you are simply disrespecting everyone.

Why do you do that if you are such a good and intelligent director? For money, A LOT OF MONEY.

Such a bad film. It is absolutely unwatchable. I can't believe that people that like Cronenberg, Kubrick and the likes could like this absolute piece of s***. Other than the actresses, that play incredibly well, it's so badly filmed, there are so many common places, it's so extremely exaggerated it's cheap, there are zero nuances. There are so many incoherences to the plot, half of the film and mostly the end doesn't make any sense. It pushes so many limits that is obvious that the only idea of the film is to shock, but that doesn't transform it in a smart or good film. And there is no universe where this film is feminist, I could never say that of a film that is creating what it's supposedly speaking against. All I saw was the contrast of a perfect and sexy body and an imperfect unsexy body, sending the clear message on how perfection is... well, perfect.

This is my favourite film of the year so far. It is perfectly done, with so much dedication. The art direction is amazing as it is the music. the narrative and the acting. Great film.