7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Braid (2023)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.3
Overview
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Hinduism: Negative
Overview
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic inequality, particularly the caste system, and strongly emphasizing women's empowerment and social justice across diverse cultural contexts.
The movie "The Braid" features interwoven stories of three women from India, Italy, and Canada, highlighting diverse cultural contexts and gender-based challenges. The narrative explicitly addresses systemic injustices, including caste discrimination, traditional gender roles, and workplace inequities, fostering cross-cultural understanding and awareness of social issues.
Secondary
The film portrays Hinduism through the lens of the caste system, highlighting the severe discrimination and oppression faced by Dalit communities. The narrative focuses on the struggles of a Dalit woman, implicitly critiquing the societal and religious norms that perpetuate this hierarchy and position it as a source of injustice.
The Braid (2023) does not feature any explicit portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The film focuses on the struggles and strengths of women across different cultures, without addressing sexual orientation or gender identity as part of its core plot or character development.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts a novel, and all main and supporting characters are portrayed with on-screen genders consistent with their established genders in the source material. There is no evidence of any gender swaps.
The film's casting aligns with the established or unspecified racial and ethnic backgrounds of its major characters from India, Italy, and Canada, as described in the source material. No character canonically established as one race is portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.5
Critic Ratings
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