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Monkey Business

Name: Monkey Business
Director: Daniel Guzmán
Released: 2022
Duration: 96 min

Representation Score

6.3/10

Good

2022

Director

Daniel Guzmán

Runtime

96 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Monkey Business primarily functions as a socioeconomic character study focused on the friction between ambition and systemic constraints. The narrative deconstructs professional status and the instability inherent in modern capitalism. While the film captures the demographic reality of service industry kitchens, it lacks a transformative approach to representation. The focus remains on the neuroses of its central male characters rather than the overlapping aspects of identity. Ultimately, the film succeeds as a critique of professional ethics and class, but offers limited engagement with LGBTQ+ identities, disabilities, or non-straight or non-cisgender frameworks.

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Category Breakdown

Does Monkey Business have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film focuses on volatile male dynamics within a professional culinary setting. It does not include explicit non-straight or non-cisgender identities or stories that challenge the idea that everyone is straight or cisgender.

How does Monkey Business portray gender?

Fair

The story explores hyper-masculine hierarchies in high-pressure service industries. It depicts professional volatility without significantly challenging traditional gender hierarchies or power structures.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Monkey Business?

Fair

The main cast is predominantly white, though the kitchen staff reflects realistic service industry demographics. Characters of color are not prioritized as primary plot drivers.

How does Monkey Business represent religion and culture?

Good

The narrative critiques modern capitalist structures and professional status. It frames character struggles within the systemic pressures of Western professional life.

Does Monkey Business include disability representation?

Limited

The film focuses on psychological volatility and professional neurosis. It does not explicitly center characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the plot.

Present on Screen

Provides a realistic depiction of diverse demographics within a professional kitchen setting.
Offers a sharp critique of modern capitalist structures and professional instability.
Effectively explores the systemic pressures of the high-end service industry.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or stories that challenge the idea that everyone is straight or cisgender.
Does not center characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the plot.
Fails to significantly subvert traditional gender hierarchies or hyper-masculine archetypes.

Official Synopsis

Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears he has become an important businessman. However, one day he receives a notification that his mother's house has been repossessed for a loan. He will try to get the money he neds to avoid eviction, but the brilliant ideas of Brujo and Luismi will end up plunging Joaquin even deeper into misery

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