7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Crime • 2021 • 113 min
Joji (2021)
Joji (2021)
Overview
Joji is a 2021 Indian drama-crime film following the downfall of a wealthy family through the lens of its youngest son driven by greed and ambition. The story, an Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, highlights toxic machismo and patriarchal oppression. Its lens favors progressive themes through its critique of traditional family dynamics and power structures. The film leans strongly progressive by framing its male characters as destructive products of their own desires and societal expectations. With an authentic Indian setting and a race-swapped casting approach, Joji delivers a modern cultural reimagining with clear ideological underpinnings.
Starring Cast
Fahadh Faasil • Baburaj • P.N. Sunny
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Race Swap: Yes
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.6
Overview
Joji is a 2021 Indian drama-crime film following the downfall of a wealthy family through the lens of its youngest son driven by greed and ambition. The story, an Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, highlights toxic machismo and patriarchal oppression. Its lens favors progressive themes through its critique of traditional family dynamics and power structures. The film leans strongly progressive by framing its male characters as destructive products of their own desires and societal expectations. With an authentic Indian setting and a race-swapped casting approach, Joji delivers a modern cultural reimagining with clear ideological underpinnings.
Starring Cast
Fahadh Faasil • Baburaj • P.N. Sunny
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
The film primarily explores universal themes of greed, ambition, and the corrupting influence of power within a dysfunctional family, focusing on individual moral failings and their destructive consequences rather than promoting a specific political ideology or offering a political solution.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
The movie features an authentic Indian cast appropriate for its cultural setting. Its narrative strongly critiques traditional patriarchal structures and toxic masculinity, portraying male characters negatively as they succumb to greed and ambition.
Secondary
Race Swap: Yes
Confidence: Medium
The film is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's *Macbeth*. Characters originally established as Scottish (White) are portrayed by Indian actors in an Indian setting, which constitutes a race swap.
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The film portrays a highly dysfunctional, patriarchal extended family where traditional gender roles and tyrannical parental authority are depicted as oppressive and ultimately destructive, leading to a violent breakdown of the family unit.
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High
The film portrays a wealthy Christian family where the patriarch uses his faith to justify authoritarian control, while his sons, despite their nominal adherence, are driven by greed and violence. The narrative critiques the hypocrisy of religious observance when contrasted with the characters' immoral actions, depicting faith as a superficial facade rather than a guiding moral force within this family.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'Joji' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or plot points. The narrative is solely focused on the internal conflicts and criminal acts within a heterosexual family, rendering the portrayal of LGBTQ+ elements as not applicable.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'Joji' does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a family's internal conflicts, greed, and the consequences of their actions, without any elements related to transgender identity or experiences.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth, but its characters, while echoing the play's archetypes, maintain the same genders as their literary counterparts. No established character from the source material is portrayed with a different gender.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Background detail only, no narrative weight.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
7.5
Critic Ratings
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