The Astronaut (2025)
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Synopsis
After surviving a crash-landing on Earth, a female astronaut is confined to a secure isolation facility by a military general for recovery and evaluation. However, as unsettling incidents begin to disrupt her confinement, she grows increasingly paranoid. She soon begins to suspect that a mysterious alien presence may have accompanied her back from space.
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Woke Score Breakdown
🎭 Race-swapped character
1The film is an original screenplay with no prior adaptations, and all characters are original creations; no established characters are race-swapped.
🔃 Gender-swapped character
1The story is completely original, meaning no established characters were recast as the opposite sex.
👥 Diverse casting
1The cast features Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, and Gabriel Luna in roles that naturally fit the contemporary NASA and U.S. military setting without pushing demographic representation for its own sake.
✊ Racial messaging
1The film does not address racial grievance, systemic racism, or white culpability.
🛂 Immigrant themes
1While the twist reveals that the protagonist is an extraterrestrial refugee, this sci-fi trope is used to explore her personal identity and species-belonging rather than serving as a moral argument regarding human immigration policy.
🪶 Indigenous peoples
1The film does not feature colonization, native peoples, or indigenous issues.
🏳️🌈 LGBT characters
1There are no LGBT characters, relationships, or identity themes present in the film.
♀️ Feminist themes
1While the film features a female lead in Captain Sam Walker, her struggles with quarantine, her father's control, and her changing body are standard sci-fi thriller elements rather than a critique of traditional gender roles or masculinity.
🏢 Anti-capitalist themes
1The institutions involved are government-run (NASA and the U.S. military), and the film contains no anti-capitalist or corporate exploitation themes.
🌱 Environmental issues
1The movie does not address climate change, conservation, or environmental moral arguments.
Content Rating Breakdown
💋 Sex & Nudity
NoneNo sexual content, nudity, or explicit sexual dialogue is depicted.
🩸 Violence & Gore
ModerateThe film features moderate violence and disturbing body horror, most notably a scene where the protagonist painfully removes her own toenail. Other instances of physical damage include skin bruising, peeling, and excreting a strange substance during a physical transformation, along with frequent spontaneous nosebleeds and brief physical altercations.
🤬 Profanity
ModerateThere is infrequent use of strong profanity, including a few uses of the F-word, alongside moderate and mild terms such as 'shit', 'bitch', 'damn', and 'God'.
🍺 Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
MildOccasional social or casual drinking of alcohol occurs in domestic settings, but there is no depiction of smoking or illegal drug use.
👻 Frightening & Intense Scenes
SevereThe film contains highly intense, sustained horror sequences where an extraterrestrial creature stalks and chases characters through an isolated, locked-down house. It features jump scares, tense medical isolation scenes, a sequence where a swarm of locusts surrounds the characters, and distressing hallucinations as the protagonist's body begins to deteriorate.