Atlanta Film Festival 2009

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Rudo And Cursi
Carlos Cuaron | Closing Night, Hispanic, Sports
While I enjoyed the film quite a bit, I was distracted and saddened by the use of frequent homophobic slurs. I'm assuming it may represent realistic dialogue in the Mexican culture as well as in the US and some other countries, but with the most recent youth suicides (including one last week in the Atlanta area by kids being bullied with anti-gay taunts, etc.,), I wish that a film such as this could find another way to get the points across rather than adding to the cultural environment that leads to such actions and reactions as we are seeing in rising hate crimes and suicides. There is also the question of what purpose the inclusion of the slurs is meant to serve. In this case, it seemed that the lines were primarily there to serve the humor and they did elicit laughter from the audience. Does that justify the choice? I'm curious to see if others in the audience were bothered by this and I'd love to hear the filmmaker's perspective on it..
4/26/2009