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The Price of Fairness

Name: The Price of Fairness
Director: Alex Gabbay
Released: 2017
Duration: 76 min

Representation Score

6.6/10

Good

2017

TV-PG

Director

Alex Gabbay

Runtime

76 minutes

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The Price of Fairness is an intellectual documentary that prioritizes systemic analysis over individualistic storytelling. It uses behavioral science and cross-cultural comparisons to challenge the inevitability of social hierarchies and economic inequality. The film frames fairness as a fundamental requirement for social cohesion rather than a mere moral preference. By investigating racial and gender inequalities, it addresses deep-seated structural issues. While the film lacks specific details regarding LGBTQ+ or disability representation, its thematic focus on social justice provides a progressive framework for understanding collective responsibility.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Price of Fairness have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film focuses on macro-sociological questions of inequality but does not include explicit depictions of queer identity or specific LGBTQ+ character arcs.

How does The Price of Fairness portray gender?

Good

The documentary explores gendered power dynamics and systemic unfairness. Behavioral scientist Sarah Bronson plays a central role in driving the inquiry.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Price of Fairness?

Good

The narrative explicitly addresses racial inequality as a primary subject. It uses comparative studies to challenge monolithic views of the human experience and identity-based power dynamics.

How does The Price of Fairness represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The film critiques traditional Western socio-economic structures and capitalist hierarchies. It challenges competitive individualism by framing cooperation as a biological and social necessity.

Does The Price of Fairness include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no specific evidence regarding the portrayal of neurodivergence or physical disabilities in the film's narrative.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional Western narratives of competitive individualism and capitalist hierarchies.
Uses behavioral science to provide a sophisticated look at systemic power dynamics.
Employs a comparative approach by studying diverse social structures and experiments.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit depictions or character arcs centered on LGBTQ+ identities.
Provides no visible representation or focus regarding physical or neurodivergent disabilities.

Official Synopsis

Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions that The Price of Fairness sets out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared to admit. In Atlanta, we take a different look at fairness, from the perspective of a group of capuchin monkeys. Behavioural scientist Sarah Bronson's work with the monkeys questions the idea that we have an evolutionary tendency towards selfish behaviour. Could it be that the outrage we feel towards systems of inequality have roots in our human need for cooperation? Touching on issues of economic, political, racial and gender inequality, this film offers a thought-provoking and timely look at what fairness really means to us.

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