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What Do You Think?

Name: What Do You Think?
Director: Paul Leduc
Released: 1986
Duration: 75 min

Representation Score

8.1/10

Excellent

1986

Director

Paul Leduc

Runtime

75 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Paul Leduc’s work serves as a powerful piece of social realism that disrupts mainstream cinematic expectations. By focusing on the underrepresented communities of Mexico City, the film provides a necessary, non-Western perspective on urban life. The film's primary strength lies in its ethnic and cultural authenticity, using the grit of the 1980s rock scene to challenge institutionalized narratives. However, the film lacks specific, identifiable arcs for LGBTQ+ individuals or characters with disabilities. While the setting implies diverse subcultures, the narrative focus remains on systemic repression and survival rather than specific identity-driven stories.

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Category Breakdown

Does What Do You Think? have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film explores underground rock and club subcultures where non-traditional social structures likely exist. However, there is no explicit evidence of a central LGBTQ+ storyline.

How does What Do You Think? portray gender?

Fair

The narrative likely moves away from traditional, submissive female roles. Instead, women appear to occupy complex, survivalist roles within the harsh ghetto ecosystem.

How racially and ethnically diverse is What Do You Think??

Excellent

The film excels by centering a non-Western urban reality. It prioritizes the ability to act of characters of color, challenging homogeneous, Western-centric perspectives found in mainstream cinema.

How does What Do You Think? represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The work critiques systemic oppression and challenges traditional social hierarchies. Using rock music as a signifier, it presents a narrative of rebellion against conventional norms.

Does What Do You Think? include disability representation?

Limited

While physical trauma may result from the environment's violence, there is no evidence of neurodivergence or visible disabilities being portrayed with ability to act.

Present on Screen

Centers non-Western, urban realities through the lens of Mexico City's underrepresented communities.
Challenges mainstream, homogeneous perspectives by prioritizing the ability to act of characters of color.
Uses cultural signifiers like rock music to critique systemic oppression and social hierarchies.

Limited or Absent

Lack of explicit, central narrative arcs for LGBTQ+ characters within the subcultures.
Absence of evidence regarding the nuanced portrayal of neurodivergence or visible disabilities.
Potential for disability to be treated as a symptom of poverty rather than a lived identity.

Official Synopsis

A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.

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