Randolph Bradley is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.
Randolph Bradley is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.
The film explicitly critiques capitalism and liberalism from a radical leftist, Marxist, and anti-imperialist perspective, advocating for radical social change over moderate reform.
The film features traditional casting with a focus on two white male characters, without explicit engagement with broader racial, ethnic, or gender diversity themes. While it delves into male trauma, toxic masculinity, and power dynamics within a workplace, these elements are explored as individual psychological struggles and indirect critiques of male identity rather than explicit systemic DEI issues.
The Passenger subtly incorporates LGBTQ+ themes through queer-coded characters and the exploration of male intimacy and fluid sexuality. The film's portrayal relies on subtext and character dynamics, adding emotional and psychological complexity to the thriller without explicitly affirming or denigrating queer identities.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Passenger" (2023) is an original screenplay featuring newly created characters. There is no pre-existing source material or historical record from which characters' genders could be established and subsequently changed.
The major characters, Randy and Benson, are portrayed by White actors, Johnny Berchtold and Kyle Gallner, respectively. This casting aligns with their established ethnicity and regional origin as White males from rural Louisiana in the source material, indicating no race swaps.
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