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As Time Goes By

Name: As Time Goes By
Director: Barry Peak
Released: 1988
Duration: 96 min

Representation Score

2.2/10

Limited

1988

Director

Barry Peak

Runtime

96 minutes

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As Time Goes By is a conventional genre film that adheres to a traditional Western historical perspective. Its narrative architecture centers on a single male protagonist's journey, limiting the scope of gender and identity representation. The film's engagement with historical shifts, particularly those related to World War II, remains rooted in Western-centric clichés. Instead of challenging global hierarchies, the plot focuses on maintaining a specific historical timeline. Overall, the film lacks the complexity or systemic critique necessary for a higher diversity score, functioning as a standard sci-fi adventure of its era.

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Category Breakdown

Does As Time Goes By have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film does not include any characters who identify as LGBTQ+. It follows a traditional sci-fi adventure format.

How does As Time Goes By portray gender?

Limited

The story revolves around a single male protagonist who navigates a high-stakes conflict. There is no representation of gender-diverse individuals or challenges to traditional male leadership.

How racially and ethnically diverse is As Time Goes By?

Fair

While the film touches on Japanese history and World War II, it does so from a Western perspective. The cast is predominantly Anglo-Saxon.

How does As Time Goes By represent religion and culture?

Limited

The narrative upholds conventional Western geopolitical views. The protagonist aims to preserve a specific historical status quo without critiquing global power structures.

Does As Time Goes By include disability representation?

Minimal

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

Present on Screen

The plot explores significant geopolitical themes and historical revisionism through its time-travel premise.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks representation of gender-diverse individuals, focusing almost entirely on a male protagonist.
The narrative reinforces Western-centric historical perspectives without offering a post-colonial critique.
There is no representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth characters within the story.

Official Synopsis

A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.

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