Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life

The film's surreal and non-humanoid animation style avoids showing sexual orientations explicitly. While it doesn't reinforce assumptions that everyone is straight or cisgender, the abstract nature prevents traditional identity representation.

Using grotesque, non-literal character designs, the film disrupts traditional gender hierarchies. It avoids reinforcing masculine leadership or submissive femininity, making gender roles seem absurd or irrelevant.

The characters serve as symbolic representations rather than ethnic markers. This postmodern approach allows the film to bypass traditional racial hierarchies and avoid stereotypes.

The film excels at critiquing systemic structures and organized society. It portrays daily routines as nonsensical, bureaucratic hurdles that shape individuals through external systems.

Characters have non-traditional physicalities as part of a surrealist aesthetic. However, these are not specific explorations of disability or neurodivergence, and characters do not have significant control over their actions.