
73 Cows
2018

Representation Score
Limited
2013
Director
Gabriel Serra Argüello
Runtime
29 minutes
Average Rating
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The Reaper is a meditative documentary that prioritizes existential inquiry over demographic breadth. It uses the specific, visceral reality of a slaughterhouse worker to comment on the universal inevitability of death. While the film lacks diverse casting or engagement with identity politics, it achieves progressive value through its cultural lens. By centering a non-Western laborer, it challenges polished, consumerist Western narratives. The film's strength lies in its ability to bypass traditional social hierarchies to focus on the fundamental human condition and the mechanical, dehumanizing aspects of modern labor.
Category Breakdown
The film focuses solely on the protagonist's solitary life without addressing any non-straight or non-cisgender identities or narratives that challenge the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.
The story centers around a single male character in a specific industrial environment. It lacks strong roles for women and does not challenge traditional gender hierarchies.
The film provides meaningful representation by centering a non-Western, rural protagonist. This disrupts Western-centric storytelling by focusing on a demographic often sidelined in mainstream global cinema.
The film excels by exploring subjective morality and deconstructing traditional Western institutional values. It leans into a profound secularism and existentialism through the protagonist's relationship with his work.
There is no documented evidence of characters with visible or invisible disabilities being integrated into the narrative arc or used as central thematic elements.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.

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