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Goodbye Alicia
Representation Score
5.4/10
Fair
1977
Director
Santiago San Miguel, Liko Pérez
Runtime
74 minutes
Average Rating
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Goodbye Alicia offers a meaningful regional perspective by setting its narrative in the Venezuelan Andes. By focusing on a young girl's internal world, the film avoids some of the era's passive female clichés. However, the film lacks explicit multi-layered complexity. While it provides a non-Western cultural lens, it does not offer visible LGBTQ+ representation or characters with disabilities. Ultimately, the work succeeds as a character-driven piece of Latin American fantasy, though it remains limited in its breadth of social representation.
Category Breakdown
Does Goodbye Alicia have LGBTQ+ representation?
The film does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters or non-straight relationships. It centers on the protagonist's emotional connection to cinema.
How does Goodbye Alicia portray gender?
Alice is a central female protagonist who drives her own emotional journey. This helps break away from traditional cinematic tendencies that often sideline young girls.
How racially and ethnically diverse is Goodbye Alicia?
Set in the Venezuelan Andes, the film naturally presents a non-Anglo-Saxon perspective. This departs from the predominantly white narratives common in Western cinema of the 1970s.
How does Goodbye Alicia represent religion and culture?
The story emphasizes individual imagination and psychological depth rather than strict institutional frameworks. The theater serves as a sanctuary for a character exploring emotional isolation through fantasy.
Does Goodbye Alicia include disability representation?
There are no characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the film's narrative.
Present on Screen
- Features a female protagonist who drives the narrative.
- Provides a non-Western cultural perspective rooted in Latin American settings.
- Explores psychological depth through the lens of escapist fantasy.
Limited or Absent
- Lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities.
- Provides no documented inclusion of characters with disabilities.
- Does not explicitly critique or subvert traditional gender hierarchies.
Official Synopsis
Alice is a girl devoid of affection seeking refuge in the images shown in the movie screen of a theater that his father manages in the Venezuelan Andes. This creates improbable stories in which she is the protagonist...
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