Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio poster

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Positive

Viewer Rating
8.3

Overview

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly critiques fascism, blind obedience, and nationalism, championing individual freedom and questioning authority. This aligns with a clearly left-leaning ideology.

This animated adaptation maintains character representations consistent with its historical Italian setting, without explicit race or gender swaps for traditional roles. The narrative critiques authoritarianism and fascism, exploring themes of individuality and life, rather than explicitly targeting traditional identities based on race or gender.

Secondary

The film portrays Christianity, specifically Catholicism, as a source of personal comfort and tradition for characters like Gepetto, particularly in times of grief and uncertainty. While set in a fascist state, the film does not link the regime's evils to the faith itself, instead depicting individual adherence with sympathy and respect. The narrative aligns with the dignity of personal faith as a human experience.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The story primarily explores themes of life, death, father-son relationships, and the impact of fascism, without incorporating queer identities or storylines.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Pinocchio's journey, his relationship with Geppetto, and broader themes of life, death, and fascism, without engaging with gender identity beyond the traditional binary.

The film does not feature any female characters engaging in or winning direct physical combat against one or more male opponents. The primary female character, the Wood Sprite, uses magical abilities rather than physical combat.

This adaptation of Pinocchio maintains the established genders for all its major characters from the original source material. No character canonically, historically, or widely established as one gender is portrayed on screen as a different gender.

The film is an adaptation of an Italian story, set in Italy, and its characters align with the racial depictions of the source material and previous adaptations. No character canonically established as one race is portrayed as a different race.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.3

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.6
The Movie Database logo
8.0

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
9.6
Metacritic logo
7.9

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