5.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Beating Hearts (2024)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.9
Overview
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Trans: Neutral
Overview
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film is rated Left-Leaning due to its implicit critique of social conditions, class struggle, and societal failures that trap individuals in cycles of violence, reflecting a clear awareness of social inequities.
The film presents a socially diverse cast with characters from varied backgrounds. However, the narrative primarily centers on a personal relationship and individual struggles within a criminal context, offering limited exploration of broader social diversity or systemic issues, and refraining from explicit critique of traditional identities.
Secondary
Beating Hearts portrays trans women as strong and resilient, confronting bigoted antagonists with empowerment. However, the film simultaneously perpetuates harmful stereotypes, including misgendering and transmedicalist views, suggesting trans women are 'really just men.' This creates a mixed portrayal where positive depictions of strength are undermined by problematic elements, leading to a neutral net impact on trans themes.
Beating Hearts primarily focuses on a heterosexual romantic relationship and its social context. Available sources do not indicate the presence of explicit LGBTQ+ characters or themes, suggesting the film does not engage with LGBTQ+ representation in its narrative.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film 'Beating Hearts' appears to feature original characters. There is no indication that it is an adaptation, biopic, or reboot where pre-existing characters with established genders have been portrayed as a different gender.
The film "Beating Hearts" is an original production set in a late 1980s French town, featuring a diverse cast including Black characters. There is no indication it is an adaptation of existing material or based on historical figures where character races were previously established. Therefore, the inclusion of diverse characters does not constitute a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
7.2
Critic Ratings
4.4
5.0
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