''Do It Like an Hombre'' ( es, Hazlo como hombre) is a 2017 Mexican-Chilean

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film written and directed Nicolás López. The film starred by

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and

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in lead roles along with

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and Ariel Levy. The film grossed $182.17 million

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, and is the sixth highest-grossing Mexican film. In Spanish.

Plot

Raúl (

), Eduardo (

) and Santiago (

) have led a happy and "masculine" life from their childhood, until, one day, Santiago confesses to them that he is

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. Raúl reacts negatively to this revelation, trying to convince Santiago that it's just a phase, which damages his relationship. Santiago starts a relationship with Julián, a famous chef, and begins plans to move to Miami with him and leave his old life behind, and Raúl feels jealous of losing closeness with Santiago, and this jealousy increases the conflicts with him until they cut each other off. At the same time, his wife Luciana finds out that he has been flirting with other women and arranging hookups and seeks a divorce from him. Losing two of the most important relationships in his life leads Raúl to reexamine his preconceptions about masculinity, friendship and love. Eventually, Santiago backs down from his plans when he finds out that Julián is polyamorous and isn't willing to keep a monogamous relationship with him. Raúl apologizes to Santiago and they make amends. In the final scene, a couple years later, Raúl is still trying to earn Luciana's forgiveness and regain her love, but she is still hesitant to give him another chance. Santiago is dating an employee of Eduardo and Raúl seems more comfortable with his friend's homosexuality, but he still reacts with discomfort to see his own son playing with a doll, hinting that future conflict may still arise.

Cast

as Raúl *

as Santiago *

as Nati, Santiago's girlfriend. *

as Eduardo *

as Luciana, Raúl's wife. * Ariel Levy as Julián, Santiago's boyfriend. * Luis Pablo Román as Raúl's therapist.

Criticism

GLAAD GLAAD (), an acronym of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals ...

criticized the film as especially homophobic in its 2018 report "Studio Responsibility Index" stating: "Overall, this movie contained so much anti-gay language and sentiment played for laughs, that Raúl coming around is barely consequential. While this film did pass the

Vito Russo Test The Bechdel test ( ), also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a test to measure the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two female characters who have a conversation about somethin ...

by including an LGBTQ character who was significant to the plot and had the same sort of unique personality traits as non-LGBTQ characters, it does not stop the film from being incredibly offensive."

References

External links

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Mexican LGBT-related films Chilean LGBT-related films Chilean comedy-drama films Mexican comedy-drama films LGBT-related comedy-drama films 2017 LGBT-related films 2017 films 2017 comedy-drama films 2010s Mexican films 2010s Chilean films