section_path: Reception/Reception in Mexico/Addressing the issue of drug trafficking
section_name: Addressing the issue of drug trafficking
paragraph_text: Addressing the issue of drug trafficking
  
  Both critics and audiences resented the lack of "sensitivity and context" on the issue of drug trafficking, with some Mexican journalists and influencers calling it "narcomusical". The film was also criticised as an "insensitive caricature" that is an apologism to drug traffickers.
  
  After being questioned about the reception of the film in Mexico, which has not yet been officially released in this country at the time, Mexican actress Adriana Paz, part of the cast of Emilia Pérez, defended her work and recalled that the film is a work of fiction, arguing that "it is an operetta in which people sing and do things that we would not do in reality. All opinions are acceptable, what I find ugly is the violence with which they are expressed".
  
  Both critics and audiences resented the lack of "sensitivity and context" on the issue of drug trafficking, with some Mexican journalists and influencers calling it "narcomusical". The film was also criticised as an "insensitive caricature" that is an apologism to drug traffickers.
  
  After being questioned about the reception of the film in Mexico, which has not yet been officially released in this country at the time, Mexican actress Adriana Paz, part of the cast of Emilia Pérez, defended her work and recalled that the film is a work of fiction, arguing that "it is an operetta in which people sing and do things that we would not do in reality. All opinions are acceptable, what I find ugly is the violence with which they are expressed".