Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Marxism
Social class contradictions
They fought for human rights and people's survival.
Proletariat
The Civilian world
They are oppressed by the elite world
They had no power to fight, but they had strong friendships run through the teenage world. Some of them wanted to escape from the cities controlled by the black forces of the class. Some even betray their companions, become "undercover" black forces to seek the antidote; Others argue that we should "sacrifice ourselves" and create opportunities to get the antidote from black force to save humanity.
They are only for their own survival and power.
Bourgeoisie
The Elite world
The adult world has a strict hierarchy, with the bottom civilian being shut out of high walls and even abandoned morgues and turned into zombies when disaster and virus struck. The people of the bourgeoisie, sitting in the midst of the glittering edifices, and they had power and an army. When fighting the virus, they give it to a medical scientist to study the antibodies. When civilian invade, they let the army to fight.
主節點
Human rights
In this world of zombies and viruses, an antidote is essential if the world is to be saved. Once an antidote is developed, there must be an experimenter, but the experimenter needs to be informed and voluntary. But they were all forced to do experiments in order to study the antidote, and in the process they were tied up and made into hanging human blood bags. The bourgeois deprived the experimenters of their human rights by treating them as guinea pigs rather than human beings.
Formalism
Theme
An underlying man vs. dystopian society conflict.
Tells humans to overcome fears and find humanity.
Tone
Thrilling
character
Protagonists
Thomas
Terasa
Newt
Antagonists
WCKD
Jason
plot
Inciting Incident
Thomas, Newt and his inter-forest fighters try to rescue the captured Mino and were surprised to find that he was not on the captured train. Mino was control of the WCKD organization.
Rising Action
Thomas and his partners decided to go to the WCKD. They saw was a matter of survival for humans because the deadly virus, so they decided to look for antibodies together.
Thomas said:“ I think it’s time we find out what we really up against,” so they decided to look for antibodies together to survive.
Newt was died due to virus and wrote a final letter
I'm not afraid of viruses, I'm afraid of forgetting, I'm afraid the virus will take my memory,”
Thomas found out that he was the antibody. Jason knocked Thomas down and dragged him into the lab.
Climax
Jason was bitten to death by zombies.
irony of selfish ambition in human nature as we see in Jason.
Resolusion
Teresa and Thomas escaped to the top of the building to wait for their Allies to fly a helicopter to rescue him, but Tresha chose to sacrifice herself to send Thomas to the helicopter.
A few months later, survivors of immunization found a deserted island overseas and built a new home there.
Feminism
The feminism of this film is clearly embodied in Teresa.
Teresa
the first and only female Glader
Socialization
Individual socialization is the process of transforming natural person into social person under the influence of social culture.
At first, Teresa was kind and heroic, struggling with her teammates in the moving maze. After she betrayed them by becoming WCKD researchers, she became a core member of WCKD. At that time, she and Dr. Paige were using their teammates as guinea pigs for the purpose of creating a utopian world. But in the end, the friendship with other gladers broke all bad plans, she changed back to the good and brave.
Gender role and gender norms
In traditional film the male is dominant character, and women are depicted as "an angel or a temptress" as gender role. They are contrasted that Man is tough and women is charming and soft, which not only reflected in physical, but more is in the mental or psychological, and women is weak and always needs a man to save her.
Film shapes the heroines of Teresa as a gender role, because she broke the bondage of the mainstream hero film images of women. She was a researcher working at WCKD without any power, also pressure and control by the leader Jason, but she broke the social norms and helped their members find antibodies together.
Especially, when Teresa and Thomas escaped to the top of the building to wait for their Allies to fly a helicopter to rescue them, but Teresa chose to sacrifice herself to send Thomas to the helicopter.
Power
She doesn't have any right in the WCKD group, she's just a researcher who studies antidotes for the bourgeoisie.
Gender conflict
The leadership of the bourgeoisie, Jason oppresses and controls of the WCKD and utopian society situation, she such a young female (status) hero broke the WCKD utopian social norms, and she made the right choice to rescue her former partners to help them to find the antibody. Eventually she sacrifices herself, saves the human being and in the process obtains teammates friendship and love.