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Part-Time Work

Name: Part-Time Work
Director: Milan Jelić
Released: 1980
Duration: 84 min

Representation Score

3.9/10

Limited

1980

Director

Milan Jelić

Runtime

84 minutes

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Part-Time Work is a character study centered on social precarity rather than demographic variety. It finds its progressive value by deconstructing traditional pillars like the stable career and the authoritative patriarch. The film uses the concept of 'temporality' to disrupt standard cinematic arcs of upward mobility. By focusing on a protagonist with unstable professional and residential status, it highlights the shared experience of economic instability. While the film lacks racial and ethnic diversity, it succeeds in critiquing systemic structures. It prioritizes the lived experience of the precarious individual over the idealized, stable citizen.

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Category Breakdown

Does Part-Time Work have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film explores unconventional domestic structures, such as a male protagonist living within a female-led household. While it does not explicitly confirm non-straight relationships, it challenges the traditional nuclear family model.

How does Part-Time Work portray gender?

Fair

The narrative challenges traditional patriarchal hierarchies by centering the domestic sphere around female relatives. The protagonist's lack of a stable provider role subverts traditional masculine archetypes of competence and leadership.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Part-Time Work?

Limited

The film appears to depict a homogeneous social environment. There is no evidence of significant racial or ethnic diversity within the primary cast or the narrative arc.

How does Part-Time Work represent religion and culture?

Good

The story offers a social critique of stability through the lens of precarious employment. The boy's choice of a father figure suggests a move toward subjective morality and deconstructed familial obligations.

Does Part-Time Work include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities within the narrative.

Present on Screen

Subverts traditional masculine archetypes by portraying a protagonist lacking a stable provider role.
Challenges the nuclear family model through unconventional domestic living arrangements.
Provides a strong social critique of systemic structures and economic instability.

Limited or Absent

Lacks significant racial and ethnic diversity within the primary cast.
Does not feature representation for characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
Does not explicitly address non-straight relationships.

Official Synopsis

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.

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