
Requirements to Be a Normal Person
2015

Representation Score
Fair
2013
TV-GDirector
Nicolás López
Runtime
90 minutes
Average Rating
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Best Worst Friends presents a mix of progressive autonomy and traditional clichés. The film successfully centers female autonomy, allowing women to navigate social and sexual landscapes with control. This disrupts some standard gender hierarchies found in conventional comedy. However, these gains are offset by a lack of racial and ethnic diversity. The cast remains largely homogeneous, and the film lacks significant LGBTQ+ representation, sticking instead to straight-centered dynamics. Additionally, the narrative relies on disability as a plot device rather than providing deep, neurodivergent ability to act. Ultimately, the film uses social chaos to critique rigid decorum, but it remains tied to established genre conventions that limit its multi-layered depth.
Category Breakdown
The film centers on heterosexual relationships and explores sexual experiences. It does not include clear representations of non-binary genders or explicit critiques of the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.
Female characters navigate chaotic situations with significant autonomy and independence. However, their portrayal sometimes aligns with raunchy comedy genre expectations rather than systemic shifts in gender roles.
The cast is primarily homogeneous and lacks significant ethnic diversity. The production does not use diverse casting to challenge historical norms.
The narrative emphasizes individualistic behavior and social impropriety over traditional respectability. This focus on chaos serves as a subtle critique of rigid social structures.
A developmentally disabled character drives the plot of the bucket list. However, he may serve more as a narrative catalyst than a fully realized agent of his own story.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
As developmentally disabled Papitas nears death, his wish is to have his best friends help him fulfill his bucket list, a list that includes seeing a leprechaun and traveling to the future. What could possibly go wrong for these best worst friends?

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