The film lacks LGBTQ+ characters or any exploration of non-heteronormative identities. Interpersonal dynamics remain strictly within traditional heteronormative structures.

Women are present but often relegated to roles of sexualized peril or heightened vulnerability. The narrative favors masculine archetypes of explorers and protectors.

Indigenous populations are frequently framed through a colonial gaze, depicted as primitive or violent. While the cast is diverse, it relies heavily on reductive cannibal tropes.

The film challenges Western moral superiority by showing how expedition members succumb to primal savagery. It presents a world where survival dictates ethics over civilization.

There is no meaningful representation of disability. Physical injuries serve only as plot devices to heighten the visceral horror and survival stakes.