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The Internship
Movie

The Internship

2026 • Unknown

Woke Score
5
out of 10

Plot

A CIA-trained assassin recruits other graduates from her secret childhood program, The Internship, to violently destroy the organization. The CIA fights back with deadly force.

Overall Series Review

The film focuses on a violent, anti-establishment action thriller premise. The central conflict pits a female-led team of assassins against the CIA, which is portrayed as a corrupt institution that stole the protagonists' youth. The narrative is driven by revenge and the complete dismantling of a Western security agency. This is a story of a highly competent female operative leading a bloody uprising against the system that created her. The emphasis on the protagonist's lethal competence and the corruption of the CIA program are the most prominent thematic elements, significantly impacting the Oikophobia and Feminism scores. The plot is purely action-focused, leaving little room for explicit spiritual or sexual-identity lecturing, resulting in lower scores in those categories.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics5/10

The film does not appear to feature plot points based on race, but the highly capable female lead is positioned in opposition to a core, implicitly white/male-dominated institutional structure (the CIA program). The conflict is primarily merit-based (assassin vs. assassin) and institutional, not focused on racial grievance or intersectional hierarchy. The score sits at a neutral midpoint because the anti-establishment structure introduces a layer of political critique, even without explicit racial content.

Oikophobia8/10

The entire plot centers on a bloody uprising designed to destroy a top-secret CIA program, a key Western/American security institution. The organization is framed as fundamentally corrupt, having 'stole her youth,' making the narrative an act of hostility and violence directed at a foundational element of the home nation. The film suggests the path to justice is through the violent deconstruction of this institution.

Feminism9/10

The female lead is a 'ruthless, highly trained assassin' who is a 'Girl Boss' extreme, instantly perfect in her lethal craft and leading the charge against the system. She assembles her fellow 'interns' in a 'bloody uprising,' a powerful female figure emasculating the older, male-led CIA structure that created her. The phrase 'stole her youth' frames the institutional life as a destructive force on the female protagonist, reinforcing an anti-natal/anti-family undertone where personal fulfillment is found only in the destruction of the system.

LGBTQ+2/10

The plot's focus is on violent action, revenge, and institutional dismantling. There is no information in the synopsis or commentary suggesting the presence or centering of alternative sexualities, queer theory, or deconstruction of the nuclear family. Sexuality remains private and unaddressed by the core narrative.

Anti-Theism2/10

The core of the conflict is institutional revenge and action violence, not a spiritual or religious debate. The morality presented is subjective—the assassin's personal vengeance against her creators—but there is no active hostility toward or vilification of traditional religion, specifically Christianity, in the central plot. The film ignores, rather than attacks, a higher moral law, resulting in a very low score.