What genre speaks to audiences the most? Is it crime, comedy,musical, or a thriller? Emelia Perez is a quadruplet of each! Directed by Jacques Audiard, it is a film of a blend that I found to be instrumental. There is characterization of perfection and detail with the main characters. There is also a clarification of the film’s central plot. Emelia Perez deserves attention on the big screen over its streaming platform Netflix. The odyssey of depth is not the same without seeing it on the big screen.

As I have mentioned, it is one for cinemas, that is because its setup is theatrically inviting. The setting of Emelia Perez is Mexico. Its character of importance is a lawyer named Rita Moro Castro (played by Zoe Saldana). She is an over achievingattorney who is under employed in her career. She spends herdays working at a large firm, when she could have her own. This is where the film goes into a musical track of her elaborating on the curiosities to why she is working for nothing.

The film continues on the track of playing the musical card. The serious depths of the plot are continuously tackled by theatricsand moments for songs to begin. The flow of the film gets more serious when Rita receives a job offer. A cartel boss offers to help Rita get rich if she helps him get a sex change. The crime lord is Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez-both played by Karla Sofia Gascon. Rita accepts this mission, and she goes on an adventure visiting doctors who perform this type of operation—a platform for the musical theatrics to combine the crime and comedy sides. Emilia Perez’s brilliance lies in unforeseen switching of gears.

The film though, finds its moments where legalities and family ties hit a plateau. Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Perez has a partner named Jessi—she is played by Selena Gomez. Emilia Perez has a clever eye for those who are trying to put a bad past behind them. Finding the truth is a mind-boggling puzzle, as themusical tracks and authentic continuity get drastic on a cinematic and surreal note of melancholy. It achieves this with championships of its combined genres.

The life of Rita and Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Perez is a journey of deceit meeting its maker in the setting of a culture that is vibrant, colorful, and extraordinary. A film where the viewer is moved by many of its fragments finding its paths via its theatrical and musical notions. The changes of gender open tochanges of many spiraling yet inviting factors. Emilia Perez is all about being blindsided. Blindsided by the notion that a new life could come easy. Emilia Perez fuels misdirection to the level of curiosity—there is always the thought of an artistic note along the way in the film’s journey toward a new life. Three-and-a-half out of four stars for Emilia Perez.