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Three Perfect Daughters

Name: Three Perfect Daughters
Director: Rolando Ravello
Released: 2020
Duration: 92 min

Representation Score

4.5/10

Fair

2020

Director

Rolando Ravello

Runtime

92 minutes

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Three Perfect Daughters functions as a domestic character study that finds strength in its cultural specificity and its subversion of traditional gender roles. By centering a widower, the film moves away from the 'provider-only' patriarch archetype, allowing for a more nuanced look at domestic management. However, the film remains within a conservative narrative framework. It lacks engagement with LGBTQ+ identities and focuses on preserving traditional family values rather than critiquing them. While it offers a localized Southeast Asian perspective, it does not push for radical systemic or social change.

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Category Breakdown

Does Three Perfect Daughters have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film adheres to a traditional structure that assumes everyone is straight or cisgender. There are no narratives or characters that question conventional romantic relationships.

How does Three Perfect Daughters portray gender?

Fair

The story challenges traditional gender roles by focusing on a widower who performs emotional and domestic labor. The daughters play a significant role in driving the story, clashing with their father to shift power away from rigid patriarchal control.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Three Perfect Daughters?

Good

Set in the Philippine cinematic landscape, the film offers a highly specific cultural perspective. It centers on a Southeast Asian family and explores the socioeconomic realities of a middle-class Filipino household.

How does Three Perfect Daughters represent religion and culture?

Fair

The narrative emphasizes the importance of familial cohesion and domestic stability. It focuses on preserving the family unit rather than deconstructing Western institutions or promoting radical secularism.

Does Three Perfect Daughters include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no significant portrayal of visible or invisible disabilities within the character descriptions or narrative.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional gender roles by centering a widower in a nurturing, domestic role.
Offers high cultural specificity by centering a middle-class Filipino family and Southeast Asian socioeconomic realities.
Empowers daughters to navigate their own romantic choices and personal autonomy.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or narratives that challenge assumptions about straight relationships.
Does not actively deconstruct traditional institutions or offer a critique of the nuclear family model.
Provides no visible or invisible representation of disability.

Official Synopsis

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

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