
Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009

Representation Score
Fair
2023
RDirector
Nicol Paone
Runtime
98 minutes
Average Rating
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The film's primary achievement is its subversion of traditional gender roles. By placing a woman in the role of a professional assassin, the story provides a lead who play a significant role in driving the story and intellectual power. However, the narrative lacks depth in addressing LGBTQ+ identities or non-cisgender narratives. It also focuses heavily on the friction between the underworld and the art market without engaging in explicit discussions regarding sexual orientation or racial diversity. Ultimately, the work functions as a character-driven genre piece that challenges gender expectations more effectively than it addresses broader systemic or identity-based hierarchies.
Category Breakdown
The film focuses on professional maneuvers within the art and crime sectors. There is no explicit evidence of non-straight identities or narratives designed to critique the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.
The narrative challenges traditional gender roles by featuring a female hitman. This role gives her a leading, active part in driving the story and intellectual dominance, moving beyond passive archetypes often found in crime cinema.
The story centers on specific professional circles that may lean toward established socioeconomic hierarchies. There is no documented evidence of diverse casting or efforts to deconstruct racial hierarchies.
The film explores subjective morality through the protagonist's dual existence. It examines how the art world assigns meaning to actions, though it avoids systemic critiques of Western institutions.
There are no visible or invisible disabilities portrayed as central to the character arcs or the plot progression.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.

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