Chaos Walking story

movie: Chaos Walking (2021) · 2021-02-24

Chaos Walking is a 2021 American dystopian action film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford. It is based on Ness's science fiction trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008's The Knife of Never Letting Go. Synopsis: A young man lives in a community without women, where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called "Noise". When a woman crash-lands on the planet, he must help her escape danger.

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Theme	Level	Motivation
biased sex-ratio society	major	The story is explores life on an all-male space colony.
extraterrestrial being	major	The human colonists had come into conflict with an indigenous species of human aliens, known as the Spackle. The Spackle were wrongly blamed for having killed all the female colonists. Tom got into a physical confrontation with one of the Spackle - the only direct appearance made by these aliens in the film.
facing organized pursuit	major	Tom and Viola were on the run from Prentisstown's mayor and his men.
infatuation	major	Tom became besotted with Viola, the first girl he'd ever met in his life.
space colonization	major	The story is set in and around an all-male colony on the distant planet New World.
telepathic society	major	The the New World colony males could hear each other's thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called "Noise".
what if I heard all the thoughts around me	major	A main novelty of the film is that the New World males could hear each other's thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called "Noise".
coping with the death of someone	minor	Todd tried to hold back his tears after his dog, Manchee, was killed.
father and son	minor	Todd lived in Prentisstown with his adoptive fathers, Ben Moore and Cillian Boyd.
interstellar space travel	minor	The colony ship carries Viola an 4,000 others across interstellar space to the planet New World.