The film lacks prominent LGBTQ+ characters or explorations of non-heteronormative identities. The narrative focuses entirely on the protagonist's investigation and sociopolitical conflicts.

Smilla disrupts traditional hierarchies as a mathematician with high intellectual agency. She drives the plot through logic and scientific rigor, often outperforming her male counterparts.

The story explores intersectionality through Smilla’s identity as a Greenlandic woman in Danish society. It uses Inuit-European tensions to critique colonial power and systemic exploitation.

The film critiques Western institutionalism and capitalist expansion. It frames corporate and state entities as exploitative tools of oppression against indigenous populations.

While the film touches on psychological trauma and grief, it lacks central depictions of physical or neurodivergent disabilities as primary narrative drivers.