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Land Of Glass

Name: Land Of Glass
Director: Jeppe Vig Find, Marie Dalsgaard Rønn
Released: 2018
Duration: 87 min

Representation Score

5.1/10

Fair

2018

Director

Jeppe Vig Find, Marie Dalsgaard Rønn

Runtime

87 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Land of Glass functions as a study of the outsider experience within a fantasy framework. It succeeds in disrupting traditional authority by framing state-like institutions as antagonists seeking to exploit natural resources. The film moves away from idealized Western domesticity by centering a household defined by a transient father and the absence of a mother. This structural choice provides a more nuanced view of family life. However, the film relies heavily on fantasy clichés to signal difference. While it explores themes of displacement and exclusion, it lacks explicit markers of the way different parts of someone's identity overlap or clear representation of specific identities.

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Category Breakdown

Does Land Of Glass have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film does not explicitly depict LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight relationships. Characters like Neia and Alva seem unconventional, but they serve fantasy clichés rather than clear queer representation.

How does Land Of Glass portray gender?

Fair

Female characters Neia and Alva play key roles in driving the plot's conflict and act as catalysts for the story. The inclusion of Alva provides a non-traditional family structure beyond the typical nuclear model.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Land Of Glass?

Fair

The narrative uses fantasy elements to explore 'otherness' through characters with distinct aesthetic markers. Neia and Alva function as symbolic representations of underrepresented or displaced groups.

How does Land Of Glass represent religion and culture?

Good

The story challenges institutional authority by portraying secret service agents as predatory poachers. It also explores non-traditional domesticity through Jas's household, which lacks a maternal figure.

Does Land Of Glass include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no visible or invisible disabilities depicted in the narrative. No characters have physical impairments or neurodivergent traits.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional authority by depicting institutional agents as predatory antagonists.
Provides non-traditional familial structures through the presence of Alva and Jas's single-parent home.
Uses fantasy elements to effectively explore the dynamics of underrepresented, displaced groups.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit LGBTQ+ representation or non-straight relationship arcs.
Relies on aesthetic clichés rather than clear cultural or racial identifiers to signal difference.
Does not include any depictions of disability or neurodivergent characters.

Official Synopsis

Jas lives together with his father, who is a truck driver and spends lot of time away from home. One day, Jas finds a girl and an old lady hiding in the barn. They call themselves Neia and Alva and have strange clothes and hair. They say they live in the woods but cannot return. Soon, couple of secret service agents show up and start asking a lot of questions. Soon they figure out that they're poachers looking for healing gem of the elves. Jas, together with his best friend Isaac, decides to help their new friends against the poachers.

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