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The Household

The Household

Representation Score

2.7/10

Limited

1974

Director

Luigi Filippo D'Amico

Runtime

94 minutes

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The film centers around a period-specific erotic comedy that relies on established social hierarchies and traditional gender roles. While it offers a minor disruption of patriarchal stability through themes of infidelity, it does not delve deeply into multi-layered complexities. The movie focuses on the transgression of domestic boundaries within a narrow, homogeneous setting. It emphasizes character-driven comedic elements over a deeper critique of systemic social structures. Overall, the work adheres to traditional genre conventions reflecting the era's social norms without challenging them through diverse representation.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Household have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film doesn't include any LGBTQ characters or explore non-straight relationships. The story focuses on traditional heterosexual relationships and conflicts.

How does The Household portray gender?

Fair

Women play key roles in the film's sexual conflicts as wives and daughters, but they are often portrayed as objects of desire. The film slightly challenges male dominance through domestic instability.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Household?

Minimal

The film is set in a homogeneous Mediterranean environment with no indication of diverse racial or ethnic backgrounds among the cast.

How does The Household represent religion and culture?

Fair

The story disrupts the idealized bourgeois family by showing dysfunction within the household. It serves as a comedy of manners rather than a critical look at societal issues.

Does The Household include disability representation?

Minimal

The film does not include any characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities.

Present on Screen

  • Challenges traditional patriarchal authority by showing the instability of the bourgeois household.
  • Uses female characters to drive the central sexual conflict and narrative tension.

Limited or Absent

  • Doesn't include LGBTQ characters or explore non-straight relationships.
  • Female characters often serve as objects of desire rather than complex individuals.
  • The casting lacks racial and ethnic diversity.
  • The film doesn't offer a systemic or anti-capitalist critique of the social structures it depicts.

Official Synopsis

A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.

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