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Cold Moon

Name: Cold Moon
Director: Patrick Bouchitey
Released: 1991
Duration: 92 min

Representation Score

3.5/10

Limited

1991

Director

Patrick Bouchitey

Runtime

92 minutes

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Cold Moon is a gritty, naturalistic character study that explores the fringes of social acceptability. It succeeds in providing a cultural critique by rejecting traditional social hierarchies and celebrating lifestyles that exist outside mainstream norms. However, the film lacks significant engagement with diverse identities. The narrative structure is built around a deconstruction of social stability, but it fails to include varied perspectives on gender, race, or sexual orientation. Ultimately, the film functions as a portrait of aimless existence. While it challenges conventional depictions of family and labor, it remains limited by its narrow focus on a specific, homogeneous social group.

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Category Breakdown

Does Cold Moon have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film focuses on the hedonistic lives of two male protagonists. There is no explicit evidence of queer identity or narratives that challenge the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.

How does Cold Moon portray gender?

Fair

The narrative centers on a male-dominated social sphere. Women are depicted primarily as objects of sexual utility rather than characters with independent roles in driving the story.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Cold Moon?

Limited

The film appears to focus on a localized, socio-economically underrepresented demographic. There is no evidence of a multi-ethnic cast or deliberate attempts at representing characters with overlapping identities based on multiple backgrounds.

How does Cold Moon represent religion and culture?

Good

The film disrupts traditional Western moralities by centering on socially transgressive behaviors. It embraces moral relativism and lifestyles that exist outside mainstream capitalist or religious expectations.

Does Cold Moon include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no specific evidence within the context to suggest the presence of characters with visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional Western moralities and social hierarchies.
Provides a realistic look at socio-economically underrepresented lifestyles.
Embraces moral relativism through its transgressive character studies.

Limited or Absent

Lacks meaningful representation of non-straight or queer identities.
Depicts women primarily as passive objects of sexual utility.
Fails to incorporate racial or ethnic diversity within the cast.

Official Synopsis

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.

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