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Miss Fortune

Name: Miss Fortune
Director: Lee Seung-jun
Released: 2023

Representation Score

2.8/10

Limited

2023

Director

Lee Seung-jun

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Miss Fortune centers on a mother-daughter duo navigating a high-stakes heist against a wealthy elite. The film highlights the tactical and intellectual prowess of its female protagonists, challenging traditional hierarchies. However, it adheres to conventional narrative structures and lacks diverse racial representation. The film primarily focuses on socio-economic tensions within a culturally homogeneous context, rather than broader identity-based representation.

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Category Breakdown

Does Miss Fortune have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film does not include characters with non-binary gender identities or same-sex relationships. The main plot revolves around seduction and follows traditional heterosexual norms.

How does Miss Fortune portray gender?

Fair

Female characters play key roles through their intelligence and strategic thinking, avoiding submissive stereotypes. However, the use of seduction as a plot device relies on conventional gendered clichés.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Miss Fortune?

Limited

Focused on the socio-economic divisions within South Korea, the film does not feature characters from diverse racial backgrounds or multi-ethnic casting.

How does Miss Fortune represent religion and culture?

Good

The story critiques the accumulation of wealth by wealthy art brokers, exploring moral relativism through the lens of survival and upward mobility.

Does Miss Fortune include disability representation?

Minimal

The film does not mention any characters with visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

The female protagonists are central to the film's intellectual and strategic elements.
The plot effectively explores class-based power dynamics.
The narrative emphasizes the ability to act of female characters in a heist setting.

Limited or Absent

The use of seduction as a plot device reinforces conventional gendered clichés.
The film lacks diverse racial representation.
There is no evidence of LGBTQ+ or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth narratives.

Official Synopsis

Ji-hye is a once-successful and beautiful swindler, who recently begins failing with her cons and dreams of changing her small-job life. Before her retirement, she decides to take on one last job which could change her whole life: seducing the son of a wealthy art broker family to steal the golden treasure hidden in their se- cret mansion. With the help of her daughter Ju-young, she succeeds in earning the trust of the family but it turns out to be a never ending battle. Can Ji-hye and Ju-young find the legendary treasure and start a new life?

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