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We Are the Nobles

Name: We Are the Nobles
Director: Gary Alazraki
Released: 2013
Duration: 108 min

Representation Score

6.5/10

Good

2013

PG-13

Director

Gary Alazraki

Runtime

108 minutes

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We Are the Nobles is a social satire that prioritizes class critique over demographic variety. It successfully provides a localized Mexican perspective that challenges the bubble of unearned privilege and capitalist excess. However, the film lacks depth in representing LGBTQ+ identities or disability. The narrative remains centered on a straight-centered, able-bodied framework that focuses almost exclusively on the transition from wealth to poverty. While gender representation is moderate through the lens of shared socioeconomic struggle, the film does not actively work to subvert traditional masculine or feminine roles.

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Category Breakdown

Does We Are the Nobles have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film does not feature any prominent LGBTQ+ characters or storylines. Instead, it centers on socioeconomic changes and family dynamics within a straight-centered context.

How does We Are the Nobles portray gender?

Fair

Female characters face the same socioeconomic challenges as their male counterparts. They play a significant role through manual labor, but the film relies on the 'spoiled youth' cliché rather than challenging traditional gender roles.

How racially and ethnically diverse is We Are the Nobles?

Good

As a Mexican production, the film provides a localized perspective on internal social stratifications. It avoids a monolithic view of Mexican identity by highlighting the divide between the elite and working classes.

How does We Are the Nobles represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The story critiques capitalist excess and the insulation of the wealthy. It deconstructs the family's social standing, using their transition to manual labor to challenge existing socioeconomic hierarchies.

Does We Are the Nobles include disability representation?

Limited

The film does not focus on visible or invisible disabilities. Characters are defined by their socioeconomic status and survival struggles rather than neurodivergence or physical disability.

Present on Screen

Offers a nuanced, non-Anglo-centric perspective on Mexican social stratification.
Provides a sharp critique of class structures and the disconnect of the elite.
Uses a 'riches to rags' framework to challenge the morality of upper-class institutions.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth storylines.
Provides minimal exploration of neurodivergence or physical disabilities.
Relies on traditional gender clichés rather than deconstructing gender hierarchies.

Official Synopsis

Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

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