Let me inform you that
awards season
has begun in Hollywood.
Yes, it's that time when the Oscars are coming.
The succession of ceremonies began with the Golden Globes, then the Critics Choice Awards and most recently the Emmys.
Golden events where the splendor of the film industry is displayed on red carpets with stars gloved in
Haute Couture
and stumbling between flashes.
There goes the
crème de la crème
of cinema, young actors rubbing shoulders with true legends at a party where diversity and inclusion fortunately reign.
These ceremonies serve as a platform to celebrate and highlight human plurality on the screen.
For a few hours,
the illusion
of a United States that embraces Latinos, blacks, members of native peoples, Asians, the LGTBIQ+ community, ladies with exuberant curves...
Proof of this, the Latin actress
America Ferrera received
the SeeHer award
at the Critics Globes Awards
, which began to be awarded in 2017 to promote the adequate and real representation of women in audiovisual media.
The speech by Ferrera, best known for her role in “Ugly Betty,” was considered “memorable.”
"Powerful".
She talked about how, growing up as a Honduran-American girl in love with cinema, she
“rarely if ever”
the characters she saw “looked like me.”
Ferrera received the award for her role in “Barbie,” where she puts on her shoulders
a well-recited monologue
about what it is to be a woman today.
“To me, this is the highest and best use of storytelling.
To defend the truth that we are all worth seeing.
Black, brown, indigenous, Asian, trans, disabled, any body type, any gender, we are all worthy of having our lives reflected in rich and authentic ways,” she said upon receiving her award.
And a huge and unanimous applause followed her standing.
A curious fact is that 2,800 km from Los Angeles, while the Emmys were being awarded on Monday, in Iowa, Donald Trump became the winner of the first vote in the Republican primaries ahead of the November elections against Joe Biden.
He didn't win narrowly.
She swept away.
She announced that she will “seal the border” to stop what he called an “invasion.”
And he promised to make “America Great Again” (again) by wallowing in all that plurality so applauded in the mirages of cinema.