Anyone else think Darkest Minds is the movie equivalent of Pepsi trying to cash off of gen z’s perceived desire to rebel and be special?
I mean jesus, some movies are just dripping with corporate sleaze but that one just looks so awful.
Ooh special teenagers with the original super powers of being able to move things with their minds must fight the evil adults who use them like tools.
Plus we have a black female lead and a romantic subplot and teenagers dancing in the woods and being free spirited.
A group of old white shareholding white men got together and said well let’s appeal to the tween audience. How do you do that?
Make a plot about rebellion. Maybe a cute little dystopian scenario that’s along the lines of hunger games. Throw in a minority or two.
Oh and super powers, cuz teenagers love super heroes and are lonely and desperately want to be special.
Every time I see that trailer I cringe so hard.
I hate these vanilla flavored dystopias that are so clearly attempting to be edgy, but have no real social commentary or anything really twisted about them.
I have no ill will towards hunger games but god I wish it didn’t start the hollywood trend of sexy teenagers are fighting adults who do the bad things and use them for political agenda.
It’s a ham fisted allegory intended only to exploit the sjw culture we’ve got going on, where people who like to feel special attempt to out do other people with how many boxes of unprivileged they can tick off.
It’s a fantasy for middle class teenagers with diversity sprinkled in like token sprinkles.
A true product of our time.
The only way the movie could not suck is if it’s a subversion of the genre, the main male lead dies, and the protagonist realizes she’s a lesbian, and also in the end, the government wins because the government and its evil corporate shadow masters always win.
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