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The Solar System

Name: The Solar System
Director: Bacha Caravedo, Chinón Higashionna
Released: 2017
Duration: 95 min

Representation Score

5.4/10

Fair

2017

Director

Bacha Caravedo, Chinón Higashionna

Runtime

95 minutes

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The Solar System challenges the cozy expectations of the holiday genre by presenting a domestic battlefield rather than a celebratory reunion. This approach deconstructs traditional hierarchies and the authority of the patriarchal figurehead. The film's strength lies in its willingness to embrace dysfunction and complex interpersonal histories. By focusing on the breakdown of the nuclear family, it provides a more critical and nuanced look at social structures compared to typical seasonal dramas. However, the film's focus remains confined to a single family unit. This narrow scope limits the visibility of broader racial diversity and leaves questions about disability representation unanswered.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Solar System have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film delves into complex romantic relationships, particularly a connection between a father and his son's ex-partner. While non-straight identities aren't explicitly confirmed, the narrative emphasizes unconventional relationship structures over traditional domestic stability.

How does The Solar System portray gender?

Fair

The story challenges traditional patriarchal roles by depicting a negligent male politician. Female and younger generation characters play significant roles in confronting the shortcomings of the traditional family leader.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Solar System?

Fair

The narrative centers on the internal dynamics of the Dessola family. Without specific casting details, the film lacks explicit evidence of diverse racial blending within its localized exploration of domestic life.

How does The Solar System represent religion and culture?

Good

By setting a Christmas Eve reunion as a battleground of hatred, the film dismantles the idealized holiday cliché. It replaces traditional religious unity with a skeptical, postmodern view of the nuclear family.

Does The Solar System include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the narrative.

Present on Screen

Subverts traditional holiday clichés by replacing idealized family cohesion with realistic domestic chaos.
Challenges traditional patriarchal authority through the depiction of a negligent, politically driven father figure.
Explores complex, non-linear relationship dynamics that disrupt conventional domestic stability.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit evidence of diverse racial blending or varied ethnic casting.
Provides no representation or mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
The narrative scope is limited to a single family, potentially narrowing its social breadth.

Official Synopsis

The Dessola family, who has never met in the past two years, has finally gathered together on Christmas Eve this year. Leonardo is a politician who has been busy with work for many years and neglects his family. On Christmas Eve, he took his girlfriend back to his hometown and his family reunion - son Pavel, daughter Adul and 9-year-old grandson Buri, what is it, His current girlfriend is Pavel's ex-girlfriend. The rare reunion has gradually become a battlefield of new hatred and old hatred, and every family member has something to say. The night is still very long, how should the Dysola family end this rare Christmas Eve in this chaos?

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