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Mira
Movie

Mira

2022Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Woke Score
1.8
out of 10

Plot

15-year-old Lera Arabova lives with her family in the city of Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working on the space station "Mira" for many years now and has lost any relationship he had with his daughter a long time ago, being now just a voice in a cell phone. After the city is leveled by the comet's fragments, Lera has only one chance left to save her loved ones and whole Vladivostok from another disaster. Lera's father guides her through satellite systems and phones, monitoring her every move from above.

Overall Series Review

The movie is a Russian disaster and science-fiction film that centers on 15-year-old Lera navigating a meteor-ravaged Vladivostok. The emotional core is the strained but ultimately heroic relationship between Lera and her astronaut father, who guides her from his space station. The story focuses intensely on family survival, sacrifice, and the reconciliation of an estranged parent and child. Visually, the film features large-scale destruction and action. The narrative structure is a classic disaster movie formula, prioritizing emotional depth and universal themes of family over any contemporary social or political commentary. The plot treats personal merit, family loyalty, and love as the highest values.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The narrative is entirely focused on a universal disaster and a specific father-daughter relationship. Characters are defined by their familial roles, courage, and determination in a crisis. There is no reliance on race or immutable characteristics, no vilification of any ethnic group, and no forced diversity or lecturing on privilege.

Oikophobia1/10

The central mission is Lera's attempt to save her loved ones and her home city, Vladivostok, from total destruction. The narrative celebrates and defends the community and family structure, showing gratitude for the sacrifices of a parent. The film is fundamentally a story of defending one's own 'home' and loved ones from chaos.

Feminism3/10

Lera is a highly determined and physically capable female lead who overcomes her own fears to save her brother and others. She is the active protagonist, guided by but not dependent on her father. However, the father is an equally heroic and protective masculine figure who makes a major sacrifice, maintaining a complementary dynamic. The focus is on family unity and the protective nature of both the father and the daughter's mission, not on anti-natalism or the emasculation of men. The score is only slightly elevated because of Lera's 'Girl Boss' agency in the action genre.

LGBTQ+1/10

The plot is entirely focused on the struggle for survival within a nuclear family unit (father, daughter, younger brother, mother/step-father). There is no presence of alternative sexual ideology, gender theory, or deconstruction of the male-female pair. The family is treated as the normative and vital structure for survival.

Anti-Theism3/10

The film's conflict is purely a natural/scientific disaster. There is no direct mention of or hostility toward any traditional religion, especially Christianity. Morality is derived from the objective need for self-sacrifice, love, and courage, pointing toward a form of objective moral truth through transcendent human emotion. The neutral nature of the plot prevents a 1/10, but the moral core is transcendent rather than relativistic.