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Monogamish

Name: Monogamish
Director: Tao Ruspoli
Released: 2017
Duration: 75 min

Representation Score

5.3/10

Fair

2017

TV-MA

Director

Tao Ruspoli

Runtime

75 minutes

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Monogamish uses a documentary format to explore modern intimacy and challenge traditional views on monogamy. It interviews experts such as anthropologists and sex therapists to deconstruct the institution of monogamy. The film's main strength lies in its intellectual challenge to established cultural norms, promoting personal autonomy and situational ethics. However, it is limited by its narrow demographic focus, primarily featuring white, Western subjects.

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Category Breakdown

Does Monogamish have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film explores sexual fluidity and critiques traditional rules of relationships, but it does not center queer narratives. Instead, it focuses on non-monogamous relationships.

How does Monogamish portray gender?

Good

The documentary highlights women's sexual ability to act and moves away from traditional gender roles. It emphasizes the intellectual effort involved in complex relationships.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Monogamish?

Limited

The cast and interviewees are predominantly white and Western, reflecting a homogeneous demographic. The film does not intentionally include diverse racial or ethnic perspectives.

How does Monogamish represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The film effectively deconstructs Western social institutions like the traditional family unit. It prioritizes secular, psychological, and sociological perspectives over religious ones.

Does Monogamish include disability representation?

Minimal

The narrative focuses on interpersonal relationship dynamics and sociological inquiry without addressing visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional views on the nuclear family model.
Promotes a worldview centered on personal autonomy and situational ethics.
Highlights female sexual ability to act and moves away from traditional gender roles.

Limited or Absent

Lacks intentional inclusion of diverse racial and ethnic perspectives.
Focuses mainly on white, Western subjects within a homogeneous demographic.
Does not center queer narratives or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth identities.

Official Synopsis

Recovering from a heartbreaking divorce, independent filmmaker and son-of-an-Italian-Prince Tao Ruspoli takes to the road to talk to his relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists, and ordinary couples about love, sex & monogamy in our culture. What he discovers about his very unconventional family, and about the history and psychology of love and marriage leads him to question the ideal of monogamy, and the traditional family values that go with it.

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