
How to Be Really Bad
2018

Representation Score
Fair
1991
Director
Josiane Balasko
Runtime
90 minutes
Average Rating
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Josiane Balasko’s comedy succeeds in subverting traditional hierarchies, particularly through its strong female lead. Leah is a character defined by her own choices rather than submissive clichés, navigating a supernatural world on her own terms. The film's strength lies in its moral relativism. By humanizing the demonic, it challenges rigid religious dichotomies and prioritizes personal connection over institutional dogma. However, the film lacks breadth in racial and LGBTQ+ representation. It remains largely confined to a homogeneous social framework and lacks explicit depictions of non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth identities.
Category Breakdown
The film explores unconventional romantic attractions that challenge traditional moral pairings. While it doesn't explicitly include non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth identities, it moves away from assumptions that everyone is straight or cisgender.
Leah serves as a highly agentic protagonist who actively navigates her supernatural predicament. The film challenges traditional feminine clichés by focusing on her complex, chaotic desires.
The narrative appears largely homogeneous, operating within a standard urban French social framework. There is no evidence of significant racial blending or diverse casting.
The story challenges singular religious morality by framing the devil as a redeemable figure. It positions systemic religious structures as forces in conflict with individual subjective truths.
The film explores themes of social awkwardness and self-consciousness. However, there is no evidence of characters with disabilities portrayed with specific ability to act.
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Official Synopsis
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.

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