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More Sex & Violence

Name: More Sex & Violence
Director: Bill Plympton
Released: 1999
Duration: 6 min

Representation Score

4.5/10

Fair

1999

TV-MA

Director

Bill Plympton

Runtime

6 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Bill Plympton's short film serves as a surrealist exercise in challenging conventional cinema. It prioritizes chaotic, subjective energy over identity-focused storytelling. While it presents women with autonomy, it lacks racial and ethnic diversity. The film's progressive qualities come from its rejection of traditional social hierarchies and moral structures, replacing them with an anarchic, subjective reality.

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Category Breakdown

Does More Sex & Violence have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film emphasizes sexual themes but does not clearly depict non-straight relationships or identities.

How does More Sex & Violence portray gender?

Fair

Women are shown as active participants in sexual encounters and can exit violent scenes, maintaining autonomy despite their limited representation.

How racially and ethnically diverse is More Sex & Violence?

Limited

The film features homogeneous male characters in suits, suggesting a lack of intentional racial or ethnic diversity.

How does More Sex & Violence represent religion and culture?

Good

The film presents an anarchic, surreal worldview that challenges traditional social and moral norms.

Does More Sex & Violence include disability representation?

Minimal

Physical comedy in the film is used for slapstick effect and does not portray characters with disabilities having real influence or control.

Present on Screen

Women are depicted as active, autonomous participants in sexual encounters.
The film effectively challenges traditional social hierarchies and moral norms.
The surrealist approach offers a non-traditional, anarchic worldview.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks significant racial and ethnic diversity.
Female characters are too scarce to provide robust gender representation.
There is a lack of explicit, character-driven LGBTQ+ narratives.

Official Synopsis

Twelve skits in six minutes: the first one and the final three are about sex, in between are sketches of blood, death, murder, truck crashes, a tough day on the toilet, a slip on a banana peel, and an omnivorous Elvis. In several vignettes, Plympton draws on the essentially comic image of men wearing jackets and ties in a world gone awry. Women, who don't appear all that often, cheerfully participate in the sex and don't hang around for the violence.

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