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The Darkest Minds (2018)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.5
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Overview

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High

Overview

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic government oppression, internment, and discrimination against a marginalized group of superpowered children, championing their collective fight for freedom and human rights.

The film demonstrates intentional diversity through its casting, featuring a Black actress in the lead role and a diverse ensemble. Its narrative strongly critiques systemic prejudice and oppression against a marginalized group, making this theme central to the story.

Secondary

The Darkest Minds does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a heterosexual romance and the struggle of superpowered teenagers in a dystopian society, with no queer representation.

The film "The Darkest Minds" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its plot or character arcs. Consequently, there is no portrayal of transsexual identity to evaluate as positive, negative, or neutral.

The film features several female characters with superpowers who engage in combat. However, their victories against male opponents are consistently achieved through the use of their psychic or elemental abilities, not through skill, strength, or martial arts in close-quarters physical combat.

The film adapts the novel series by Alexandra Bracken. A review of the main and supporting characters reveals no instances where a character canonically established as one gender in the source material is portrayed as a different gender in the movie.

The film adapts a novel where the main character's race was not explicitly specified beyond descriptive terms like 'olive skin.' The casting of a biracial actress does not contradict a clear, canonically established race from the source material, nor were other major characters race-swapped.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

4.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.7
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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1.5
Metacritic logo
3.9

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