The ridiculous summation that it's simply about a slave traveling back in time to save her slave master is atrocious.
If you really didn't like it, take the time and effort to truly dissect it. I respect and enjoy the criticism of everyone as long as it's well thought out.
This is the first Spanish production that I've seen that shows more color than most of the popularized Spanish films. Is this a good sign in our society? No, I don't think so at all but a foot in the door is a foot in the door. Your well thought out critiques will help to change that narrative. We gotta start somewhere. I'm an avid fan of Guillermo Del Toro because of his wonderous fantasy story telling, but rewatch Pan's Labyrinth or El Ofanato and tell me you see a Catalan speaking black person.
Spoiler alert....you don't. If so, are they the main character? Supporting cast? Or someone in the background as filler?
So PLEASE give some recognition to the importance of 1. Albiet, it is not a large point but a small significant one to someone like me, is Carmen's power comes from her people's native tongue. A comfort to her is a lullaby her mother sings to her in their native language. It is a small empowerment that is over looked by a modern day outlook. Language is everything it is our only means of communication and connection and it isn't the Catalan Spanish of the Conquistadors that gives Carmen that power. 2. If you watch ANYTHING that was made in another language dubbed, trust me you'll miss everything you miss when you don't READ THE BOOK and watch the movie instead. Don't be lazy. 3. Being in love isn't weak. Cristobal did not trick her, Carmen is guilty of being too kind and naive but is still a very strong and positive female character. She fell in love of her own volition. Is it a realistic trope? Absolutely not but, even I could see from the trailer it wasn't going to be a deep exploration into a sense of self identity but much like a J-Drama or the telanovellas of the late 90s. It's an attempt to shine a glimmer of what we had hoped would've happened back then rather than what did. It's what fantasy is all about. 4. You have a positive gay character of color that no one seems to notice. Daniel, I love you, I see you!
YES, it's hormonally charged and completely teen orientated but if you love a romance wrapped in fantasy and cheesiness this is all you! Please watch. Embrace it. The good and the bad because we're not human without it. Don't watch assuming we're about to have a true historic story telling of what it would have been like to be a real witch in that time period. It would be nice, I'd watch that too! (....I might be a story telling junkie of all kinds.)
If that's not you then don't do it. It's not a dark trip into a black magic and slaves and everything always just seems to get worse. Watch The Magicians with a side of American Horror Story's: Coven season. If we expected more from Netflix, no offense but they've been a bit one sighted lately. When we want to address realism within fantasy, you need a more serious creative production company. Someone willing to go to a dark place and break some rules of popularized film. Oh big hint, don't hire white Colombians to write and produce it.
If you really didn't like it, take the time and effort to truly dissect it. I respect and enjoy the criticism of everyone as long as it's well thought out.
This is the first Spanish production that I've seen that shows more color than most of the popularized Spanish films. Is this a good sign in our society? No, I don't think so at all but a foot in the door is a foot in the door. Your well thought out critiques will help to change that narrative. We gotta start somewhere. I'm an avid fan of Guillermo Del Toro because of his wonderous fantasy story telling, but rewatch Pan's Labyrinth or El Ofanato and tell me you see a Catalan speaking black person.
Spoiler alert....you don't. If so, are they the main character? Supporting cast? Or someone in the background as filler?
So PLEASE give some recognition to the importance of 1. Albiet, it is not a large point but a small significant one to someone like me, is Carmen's power comes from her people's native tongue. A comfort to her is a lullaby her mother sings to her in their native language. It is a small empowerment that is over looked by a modern day outlook. Language is everything it is our only means of communication and connection and it isn't the Catalan Spanish of the Conquistadors that gives Carmen that power. 2. If you watch ANYTHING that was made in another language dubbed, trust me you'll miss everything you miss when you don't READ THE BOOK and watch the movie instead. Don't be lazy. 3. Being in love isn't weak. Cristobal did not trick her, Carmen is guilty of being too kind and naive but is still a very strong and positive female character. She fell in love of her own volition. Is it a realistic trope? Absolutely not but, even I could see from the trailer it wasn't going to be a deep exploration into a sense of self identity but much like a J-Drama or the telanovellas of the late 90s. It's an attempt to shine a glimmer of what we had hoped would've happened back then rather than what did. It's what fantasy is all about. 4. You have a positive gay character of color that no one seems to notice. Daniel, I love you, I see you!
YES, it's hormonally charged and completely teen orientated but if you love a romance wrapped in fantasy and cheesiness this is all you! Please watch. Embrace it. The good and the bad because we're not human without it. Don't watch assuming we're about to have a true historic story telling of what it would have been like to be a real witch in that time period. It would be nice, I'd watch that too! (....I might be a story telling junkie of all kinds.)
If that's not you then don't do it. It's not a dark trip into a black magic and slaves and everything always just seems to get worse. Watch The Magicians with a side of American Horror Story's: Coven season. If we expected more from Netflix, no offense but they've been a bit one sighted lately. When we want to address realism within fantasy, you need a more serious creative production company. Someone willing to go to a dark place and break some rules of popularized film. Oh big hint, don't hire white Colombians to write and produce it.