7.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Beguiled (2017)
The Beguiled (2017)
Overview
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.0
Overview
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film primarily explores human nature, desire, and survival within a confined, isolated setting, focusing on the psychological tension and power dynamics between characters rather than explicitly promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
The movie features a traditional cast that is predominantly white, reflecting its historical setting. Its narrative explores psychological and gender dynamics within a specific context, without explicitly centering on or critiquing traditional identities through a DEI lens.
Secondary
The film depicts a Southern boarding school where Christian morality is nominally upheld. However, the narrative subtly critiques the hypocrisy and restrictive nature of these societal norms, showing how they fail to prevent the women from succumbing to jealousy, manipulation, and violence. The invocation of Christian charity by characters often serves as a veneer for self-interest, ultimately highlighting the destructive consequences of repression rather than affirming the faith's virtues.
The Beguiled does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The story focuses entirely on the complex power dynamics and desires within a heterosexual context, offering no representation of queer identity or relationships.
The Beguiled does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative is entirely centered on cisgender women and a cisgender man, exploring gender dynamics, desire, and conflict within a specific historical context. Therefore, the film has no impact on the portrayal of transsexual individuals.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 2017 film is an adaptation of a novel and a previous film. All major characters, including Corporal McBurney and the women of the seminary, retain their established genders from the source material. No character's gender was altered in this adaptation.
The Beguiled (2017) is an adaptation of a novel and a remake of a 1971 film, both featuring an all-white cast of characters in a Civil War-era Southern setting. The 2017 film maintains the established racial portrayals for all its named and significant characters, with no instances of a character canonically established as one race being depicted as another.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.3
5.9
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7.9
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