7.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Good Samaritan (1989)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.0
Overview
The Good Samaritan tells the most touching parable that Jesus ever taught. The story begins with the lawyer’s trick question, “What is the greatest commandment?” As Jesus answers with the story of the robbers, the Rabbi, the Levite and the wounded traveler becomes real. Imagine the traveler’s emotion as his own countrymen pass by while his enemy, a Samaritan, stops to help him. Jesus teaches us to love and serve one another no matter how we differ.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Positive
Overview
The Good Samaritan tells the most touching parable that Jesus ever taught. The story begins with the lawyer’s trick question, “What is the greatest commandment?” As Jesus answers with the story of the robbers, the Rabbi, the Levite and the wounded traveler becomes real. Imagine the traveler’s emotion as his own countrymen pass by while his enemy, a Samaritan, stops to help him. Jesus teaches us to love and serve one another no matter how we differ.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central theme of individual compassion and overcoming prejudice to help a stranger is a universal moral principle, not explicitly aligned with a specific political ideology. It champions individual ethical action rather than systemic change or partisan political solutions, leading to a neutral rating.
The animated film adapts a biblical parable with character portrayals consistent with traditional animation styles for the genre, without explicit modern diversity initiatives. The narrative promotes compassion and inclusion through the actions of an outsider, offering a moral critique of traditional authority figures' inaction rather than an identity-based critique.
Secondary
The film directly illustrates the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, a core teaching of Jesus, affirming the Christian virtues of compassion, charity, and universal love for one's neighbor.
The film 'The Good Samaritan' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a man mugged and left for dead, with the plot revolving around who stops to help, without any queer representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This animated film is a direct adaptation of the biblical Parable of the Good Samaritan. The key characters in the source material—the traveler, priest, Levite, and Samaritan—are traditionally understood and depicted as male. There is no indication that the film altered the gender of any of these established characters.
This 1989 animated short adapts the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan. There is no evidence or widely known information suggesting that any character's race was changed from their canonical or historically implied depiction in the source material.
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7.0
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