Do we even have to explain it? Just read this if you want to know why.Īnyway, here is just a sample of the comments we got from actual Latinos and Latinas: Stay out of her way.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.At the risk of giving Jennifer Garner’s new Trump-inspired, fear-mongering (and yes, racist) PEPPERMINT movie any more attention (it didn’t do so great on its opening weekend and earned a really awful Rotten Tomatoes score), we just need to talk a moment and let many in our Facebook community know that movies that just perpetuate the same stale, lazy (and yes, racist) Latino stereotypes.īecause we’re being honest: as much as we love our Facebook community, there a few of you out there who seriously see no problem at all with the film, and are even questioning why we believe (strongly) that the film’s premise is blatantly racist. Any of these elements would have done Jennifer Garner’s character so much good, in terms of depth. The Reacher books are told in either first-person or a close third-person-limited perspective, meaning that we get to know what Reacher thinks and feels. And his strategies, methods, and skills are detailed and explained. Reacher’s author, Lee Child, gives his hero copious backstory. But successful as a blow-em-up thriller: for one thing, the weakly sketched plot tends to resonate with all of us (underdog wins justice is served), and even with a sort of cheap version of feminism (Jennifer Garner has muscles and beats the men). Jennifer Garner’s husband and daughter are killed in front of her she disappears for five years, trains to become a badass, a vigilante, and comes back to take her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. I’m thinking of Kill Bill here, and how it showed Uma Thurman’s character gaining her skills: that’s an important part of the story, movie people! To put it another way: the plot of this movie is easily summed up in the single sentence I wrote above. The actual becoming – a critical piece of growth, and that which makes this movie – takes place all off-screen. A single line of dialog by (if memory serves) an FBI agent describes her training in foreign countries, but it’s a very brief line. We don’t get to see any of her training to become the badass that we see onscreen. She loved her husband and child – we can easily trust this, but that’s pretty much all of her personality that we know, and it’s not much of a personality it’s something most people with spouses and children carry, in fact. As pure adrenaline-excitement-thriller, this one satisfies. The fight scenes and blow-em-up scenes are exciting, and I didn’t notice anybody firing forty-seven shots out of a magazine that holds twelve rounds (as is so common on my beloved show The Walking Dead). On the plus side: Jennifer Garner is ripped and she is beautiful and I like her. In this one, Jennifer Garner’s husband and daughter are killed in front of her she disappears for five years, trains to become a badass, a vigilante, and comes back to take her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. She becomes a vigilante, taking her own justice against those who wronged her as well as other wrongdoers in the community. That 2007 movie starred Jodie Foster as a woman recovered from a coma to find that her fiancé had been killed in the same attack that left her hospitalized. The plot of Peppermint reminded me of The Brave One. My date for this movie called its hero a female Jack Reacher.
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