4.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Boom! (1968)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.5
Overview
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Gender Swap: Yes
Overview
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film primarily explores universal existential themes of death, loneliness, and the search for meaning, rather than advocating for a specific political ideology. Its focus on individual spiritual reckoning and acceptance of mortality places it outside a clear political alignment.
The movie features a traditional, predominantly white cast without any explicit race or gender swaps. Its narrative explores themes of wealth, death, and human connection through its main characters, but does not critically portray traditional identities or center on explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film features an openly gay character, the Witch of Capri, portrayed as a flamboyant social commentator. Hints of fluid sexuality are also present in Christopher Flanders' background. These elements are integrated into the film's decadent setting without being a primary focus for either positive validation or negative critique, resulting in a largely neutral portrayal.
The film adapts Tennessee Williams' play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." In the source material, the character known as "The Witch of Capri" is female. In the film, this character is portrayed as male by Noël Coward, constituting a gender swap.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Boom!" (1968) is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." The main characters, Flora Goforth and Chris Flanders, were portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, respectively. There is no evidence that these characters were canonically, historically, or widely established as a different race in the source material than depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.5
6.0
Critic Ratings
2.0
N/A
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