We Are What We Are

The film focuses on transgender women and avoids common stereotypes, instead highlighting the nuances of everyday life and personal relationships. Characters have significant control over their own lives despite facing a hostile environment.

By focusing on a family of transgender women, the film challenges traditional gender roles and expectations. It breaks down rigid gender norms through its unique family dynamic.

Set in Mexico City, the film offers a genuine look at a working-class, non-Anglo-Saxon community. It avoids whitewashing by showing the characters' struggles within their specific urban and socioeconomic context.

The film criticizes institutional power structures by depicting authority figures as sources of systemic oppression. It highlights the importance of chosen families as a response to social stigma and hierarchy.

The film explores themes of physical and social vulnerability, but lacks sufficient evidence to score specific physical or neurodivergent disabilities as a primary narrative vector.