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.
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.
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic government oppression and advocating for the rights and liberation of a persecuted minority group, making its core conflict a clear condemnation of authoritarianism and injustice.
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.
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 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 intentionally left ambiguous by the author. Other key characters' races align with their source material descriptions. No character canonically or widely established as one race was portrayed as a different race.
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