Fortress story
The story takes place in a dystopian future. The main character in the movie and his wife are sent to a maximum security prison because they are expecting a second child, which is against strict one-child policies.
21 total · 7 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| dystopia | major | The story in set in a 2017 United States where a draconian one-child policy is in place, and offenders are jailed in a private maximum security, subterranean prison run by the ruthless Men-Tel Corporation. Also people were tattooed with barcodes. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Brennick and his cell mates resolved to escape from the ruthlessly run private prison where they were being held or die trying. |
| husband and wife | major | The main story line concerned Brennick's efforts to free himself and his wife from a maximum security prison, and, moreover, their struggle to have second child in a United States where a draconian one-child policy is in place. |
| pain implant | major | Every inmate was implanted with an "Intestinator": a small, oval device lodged in the intestine that can be used to induce crippling pain in the implantee. |
| privatization in society | major | The viewer is made to ponder about where or not corporations should be entrusted to run prisons. |
| unrequited love | major | Prison Director Poe tried to force Karen into divorcing Brannick and marrying him, but she was repulsed by Poe. |
| what it is like in prison | major | The viewer is shown prisoners living under draconian conditions is a futuristic privately run maximum security prison. |
| abortion | minor | It was revealed that abortion had been made illegal in the United States by the year 2017. |
| claustrophobia | minor | A claustrophobic inmate freaked out when he saw the tights confines of the maximum security prison where he was to be housed. |
| computer hacking | minor | D-Day hacked into the Zed-10 sentient computer and gave it a virus. |