Receive a daily summary with the 7 most important newsBy signing up, you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from El Tiempo Latino and agree to our privacy policy.You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here.Something went wrong.Try again later?Something went wrong.Please try again later.News from Washington DC and the United StatesPurple Hearts is a Netflix movie released in early August.It is based on the 2017 novel Tess Wakefield and stars Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine.Cassie, played by Carson, has type 1 diabetes and is a singer-songwriter who is the daughter of a Mexican migrant.While Luke, played by Galitzine, is a Marine with debts and a dark past.Although Cassie swears that she will never date a military man, she arranges a marriage with Luke in order to receive health insurance to help pay for her treatment.They must pretend to love each other through letters and video calls while the Marine is in Afghanistan.Stay informed with the most relevant topics in politics, economics, the Latino community and health.Subscribe here to our newsletters.Their personalities collide, Cassie is a liberal Latina who is against the war and the US healthcare system while Luke is a conservative military son of a strict Marine.Critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave Purple Hearts a 33% rating, but it has a decent audience score of 71%.In addition, Netflix assured that the film had more than 150 million hours of viewing in its first 10 days.However, detractors have criticized the film for its political views and character choices.In one scene, a friend of Luke's makes a toast, expressing "This is for life, love and hunting for some". Damn Arabs, honey!"and Cassie, who does not agree with what the soldier said, challenges him while Luke forces her to sit down and shut up.Users said on Twitter that the film is "anti-Arab, anti-Hispanic, racist, misogynistic and pro-military propaganda."In addition, fans say that Cassie has to change her liberal beliefs to cope with the relationship while Luke remained the same.For her part, writer Zoe Witt said in an op-ed for Teen Vogue that the film uses diabetes care and romance to help create a love story that benefits the military."I've been on the bathroom floor with only a few units as Cassie, and there's no doubt in my mind that I would have let myself die rather than let this godforsaken country talk me into marrying a marine for insulin," the writer opined.the way purple hearts isn't even sublte but blatantly anti arab anti hispanic racist misogynistic AND pro military propaganda but ppl are frothing at the mouth bc 🥺enemies to lovers🥺 YEAH THEY'RE ENEMIES BCS HE'S A PRO GUN CONSERVATIVE SOLDIER AND SHE'S A LATINA LIBERALDirector Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum defended the film in an interview with Variety, saying that what they intended to convey is that the protagonists would be "flawed at the beginning.""Both of them have been neglected by the system; he is wounded in a war that doesn't seem to end and she is running away from the health system," Rosenbaum said.For her part, Carson commented for the same medium that the characters are “two hearts, one red, one blue, two worlds apart, who were really raised to hate each other.Through the power of love, they learn to lead with empathy and compassion, to love one another and become this beautiful shade of purple."On TikTok, the song Come Back Home, performed by Sofia Carson, is used in videos of reunions between soldiers and their families and the hashtag #PurpleHearts reached 1.6 billion views.Main news source: USA Today.