Oh wow. Church came back as a ghost. I’m so curious if this will ever be explained through a long, five season story arc

#AprilWorldBuilders
12. Daimyese architecture looks like imitation Japanese architecture and spanish architecture. Daqunese architecture is wreckage thrown together. Adlernest is very industrial. Cavalier is very modern and corporate. The Verdin lands are very catholic and middle eastern. Zvezdy is

this is taking more replies than i thought. fuck it, heres a screencap of the review on letterboxd:

but Rita has no intention of making them do so. the reason she's in this ballroom with them is to raise money for her and Emilia's charity—shes not making them pay, she's *asking* them to. the film wants to act like it's commenting on something here, but its uninterested in actually doing so. (/x)

it takes time out of its 2-hour length to mention all these, but not to say anything about them. midway through the film, lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldana) sings a #deep song about how all these corrupt politicians are "going to pay, to pay, to pay"—implying that they are going to pay for their crimes—(x/x)

Emilia Perez sets out to repackage this idea in a veneer of shitty music, crime and family drama, and toothless takes on too many social issues to count.

the film is apparently interested in many topics; drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder, corruption, sexism, ineffective justice systems, etc.

the film firmly states that Emilia's wish is a doomed one: she was born violent and violence will always be a part of her. this idea is inherent to transmisogyny: male bodies are violent, therefore transfem bodies are violent. it's used to other us and justify our exclusion from queer/women's spaces

@morecivilized.bsky.social

okay thats it for now. i have many thoughts about this show so i may start a new thread later

this is why, when questioned on her antagonism towards Cait in s1, Vi's only answer is that "you topsiders just dont understand" as if hatred of their rich oppressors can be nothing more than empty, juvenile rebellion—rebellion which actively prohibits what the show considers to be actual progress

the existence of the massively wealthy is predicated on the existence of poverty; it is not a result of poor people being meanies.

the show fails to ask why, if it is such an easy task as to be completed in less than ten years, this wasn't done before. it fails to understand why poverty exists; that it is created and enforced by the systems of power that the rich and the government benefit from.

if she had not ignited the overt violence that had been simmering under the surface for years, the government would have ended poverty within a decade. literally ended it. in this timeline, the undercity shares in the riches of Piltover, and everyone is alive and happy! hooray!

i must reiterate, the heroes of our story literally have a #️⃣EpicCopMontage where they gas the poor people of the city in their search for a single terrorist. we are meant to find this heroic, as demonstrated by the badass music video montage used to communicate this.

the show is very pro-cop. the lesbian otp are obv cops, which the narrative treats as heroic despite the atrocities they commit in that position. never is this highlighted more than early in s2 when Cait and Vi weaponize the life-saving ventillation system of the undercity to use the gas as cover.