
World Gone Wild
1987

1986
PGDirector
Charles Bail
Runtime
94 minutes
Average Rating
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Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man.
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Category Breakdown
LGBTQ+ Representation
The film lacks any evidence of LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisnormative identities. It appears to follow a traditional, heteronormative narrative structure.
Gender Representation
The story centers on a male protagonist defined by tenacity and ingenuity. This reinforces traditional masculine leadership tropes and the 'competent man' archetype.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
There is no indication of a non-white majority cast or diverse ethnic perspectives. The narrative follows a conventional framework focused on a singular protagonist.
Religious & Cultural Diversity
The film offers a moderate critique of corporate power and industrial greed. It frames the Pilgrim Corporation as a predatory force against scientific integrity.
Disability Representation
The available information provides no evidence of characters with physical, sensory, or neurodivergent disabilities.
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AI Analysis
Choke Canyon is a genre-driven action-sci-fi film that relies heavily on mid-1980s tropes. The narrative is built around a singular, heroic masculine archetype, prioritizing individualistic conflict over identity-driven storytelling. While the film provides a critique of corporate hegemony and institutional corruption, it does so through a very traditional lens. The struggle between the principled scientist and the predatory corporation lacks intersectional depth or social subversion. Ultimately, the film functions as a standard struggle of individual agency against a corrupt institution, offering little in the way of diverse representation or nuanced social commentary.

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