6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Dressmaker (2015)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.2
Overview
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Trans: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Overview
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
While the film critiques small-town prejudice and hypocrisy, themes often explored in left-leaning discourse, its ultimate resolution is a highly individualistic act of retribution and escape rather than advocating for systemic change or a specific political ideology.
The movie features a traditional, predominantly white cast reflective of its 1950s rural Australian setting. However, its narrative strongly critiques the oppressive and hypocritical nature of this traditional small-town society, portraying many traditional identities, particularly white male figures, in a negative light due to their actions and moral failings.
Secondary
The film portrays characters strongly implied to be LGBTQ+ with empathy and dignity, despite their tragic fates. It critiques the small-town prejudice that ostracizes them, affirming the worth of their identities by framing societal intolerance as the problem. The narrative's stance is supportive and validating.
The film features Barney McSwiney, a gender non-conforming character, who endures significant prejudice. However, the protagonist's empathetic actions, particularly crafting a dress for him, affirm his identity. His tragic fate underscores the town's cruelty, positioning the film's stance as critical of bigotry and supportive of his worth.
The film portrays the Christian community of Dungatar as deeply hypocritical, judgmental, and cruel, using religious piety to justify their bigotry and ostracism. The narrative critiques the perversion of faith by its adherents rather than the faith itself, but the depiction of its institutions and practices within the film is overwhelmingly negative.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Dressmaker" is an adaptation of Rosalie Ham's novel. A review of the main characters from the source material and their on-screen portrayals reveals no instances where a character's established gender was changed for the film.
Based on the source novel by Rosalie Ham, the characters in "The Dressmaker" were implicitly established as white, consistent with the film's 1950s Australian rural setting. The film's casting maintains these racial portrayals, with no characters depicted as a different race than their source material. Therefore, no race swaps occurred.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
7.0
Critic Ratings
6.0
4.7
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