Jennifer Lopez’ latest film-”Bordertown”-was not very well received by the press during its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival last Thursday (image). Lopez was supposedly on the verge of crying after critics cited “dialogue and massive plot holes as major problems in the film”. Reuters’ Kirk Honeycutt- who was at the press screening had the following to say about the film:"(Borderwown) wants to be a thriller, a piece of investigative journalism, a political soapbox and a vehicle for Jennifer Lopez. It serves none of these masters well. There also is something disingenuous about a movie that claims that the media on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are too afraid or corrupt to expose the hundreds of rapes and murders of Latina factory workers in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico…Good thing a Latino made this movie, though: A white director would stand accused of the worst sort of stereotypes about Mexican males, rich or poor.”
Not everyone is a critic of “Bordertown”: human rights group Amnesty International awarded Lopez for her leading role in the movie.
Image- MSNBC
Links- Monsters & Critics, All Headline News, Reuters, VivirLatino
Super weird. One of the U.S. border journalists, Diana Washington Valdez, was not afraid and published an investigative book called Harvest of Women about the Juarez murders and the drug cartel. She is in El Paso, Texas, not in "Chicago" like the movie character.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably best to read Harvest of Women regardless of how good/bad the film is.
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