8.1
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Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama • 2014 • 8 min
Like a thief in the night (2014)
Like a thief in the night (2014)
Overview
Like a Thief in the Night is a 2014 Christian drama portraying a family's struggle through the Rapture, focusing on their faith and traditional values. The film aligns with a traditional cultural and religious perspective due to its unapologetic promotion of conservative Christian themes. With overt rapture theology and a nuclear family at the narrative core, the story underscores the importance of religious devotion and traditional family structures as central to identity and resilience.
Starring Cast
Raymond Dullum • Lindita Ottarsson • Emma Ridvana Thorkelsdottir
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Strong Right
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.1
Overview
Like a Thief in the Night is a 2014 Christian drama portraying a family's struggle through the Rapture, focusing on their faith and traditional values. The film aligns with a traditional cultural and religious perspective due to its unapologetic promotion of conservative Christian themes. With overt rapture theology and a nuclear family at the narrative core, the story underscores the importance of religious devotion and traditional family structures as central to identity and resilience.
Starring Cast
Raymond Dullum • Lindita Ottarsson • Emma Ridvana Thorkelsdottir
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
Political: Strong Right
Confidence: Medium
The film's central subject matter, rapture theology and end-times prophecy, explicitly promotes a conservative religious ideology. This narrative champions individual salvation through adherence to traditional Christian doctrine, implicitly critiquing secular or progressive worldviews.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The movie features a primarily traditional cast, consistent with its Icelandic production context, without explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative focuses on a couple in a remote setting and does not appear to incorporate explicit DEI themes or critical portrayals of traditional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Confidence: Low
The film, a Christian apocalyptic drama, centers on a nuclear family whose deep religious faith and traditional family structure are portrayed as central to their identity and resilience during the Rapture.
Christianity: Positive
Confidence: High
The film centers on a pastor and his family, exploring the complexities of faith, loss, and human struggle within a Christian context. It portrays the challenges and personal dilemmas faced by adherents with depth and nuance, fostering sympathy for the characters and their journey of faith.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
Based on available plot summaries, cast details, and genre information, the film 'Like a thief in the night' does not appear to feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a heterosexual family dealing with drug addiction and its consequences, with no indication of queer representation.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The film's narrative focuses entirely on a young woman's experience with human trafficking and her subsequent escape. There are no identifiable transgender characters or themes present within the storyline or character arcs. The plot does not touch upon transgender identity in any capacity, as exemplified by the protagonist's journey being solely about survival and freedom from exploitation.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film appears to be an original production, not an adaptation of existing source material or a reboot of established characters. Therefore, all characters are new creations for this specific film, precluding any instance of a gender swap from prior canon.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an original short production without pre-existing source material, historical figures, or prior adaptations. Consequently, no characters possess a previously established race that could have been altered.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
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