8.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Silenced (2011)
Silenced (2011)
Overview
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
8.7
Overview
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic institutional corruption that enables child abuse and advocating for social justice through collective action and legislative reform for vulnerable victims.
The movie features a cast that reflects its South Korean setting, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative strongly critiques figures in traditional positions of power who abuse and exploit a vulnerable, marginalized community, making the struggle for equity and justice central to its theme.
Secondary
The film portrays a Christian-affiliated institution and its leaders as fundamentally corrupt and hypocritical, using their religious standing to perpetrate and cover up horrific abuse. The narrative exposes the complicity of the wider religious community in enabling these crimes, offering no significant counterbalancing positive portrayal of the faith within the film's central conflict.
The film "Silenced" focuses on the sexual and physical abuse of hearing-impaired children and the subsequent legal battle. It does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative, thus rendering the LGBTQ+ portrayal as not applicable.
The film 'Silenced' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative is entirely focused on the real-life events of sexual abuse against hearing-impaired children at a school and the ensuing legal and social struggle for justice.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Silenced" is based on a novel and real-life events. All major characters, including the male teacher Kang In-ho and the female activist Seo Yoo-jin, maintain their established genders from the source material and historical record.
The film "Silenced" is a South Korean production based on a novel and real events in South Korea. All characters, both in the source material and portrayed on screen, are consistently depicted as East Asian (Korean), aligning with their established background. There are no instances where a character's race was changed from a prior canonical or historical depiction.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.0
8.2
Critic Ratings
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