The Maze Runner Film Analysis

“I don't know if he's brave or stupid. But whatever it is, we need more of it” (The Maze Runner). There are many characteristics that make a film worthy of being categorized as dystopian science fiction, and a curious protagonist turning into the hero is undoubtedly one of them. Films under the genre of science fiction are known to be set in the future, and to contain either robots or other forms of advanced technology. Dystopian films are classified as a sub-genre of science fiction and are typically set in a post-apocalyptic time period in conditions that would be considered undesirable in the minds of citizens today. The reason audiences are so intrigued by science fiction films, dystopian ones specifically, is because they portray an overdramatized world that is perceived as plausible to viewers if current destructive functions of society continue and worsen with time. The Maze Runner makes for an excellent
One setting is The Glade, made of concrete walls, acting as a jail to all who inhabit it. The other is what is occurring outside of the experiment. The Sun Flare is the natural disaster that shaped the post-apocalyptic world that is vaguely shown at the close of The Maze Runner. The Sun Flares killed off most of humanity when they first hit Earth, but most survivors of the immediate hit of the Sun Flares became the unlucky victims of the virus known as The Flare. The Flare is, “a virus that slowly eats away the brain, and eventually turns victims into blood-thirsty, insane humans who consider cannibalism to be an every day objective and are referred to as Cranks” (mazerunnerwiki). In response to this catastrophe, WCKD places the immune adolescents in The Glade and their aim is to find youth intelligent enough to eventually combat The Flare and save humanity. WCKD monitored their thought processes the entire time in The Glade, seeing if there were any clues that set them apart from the