Ava is a 2020 action thriller starring Jessica Chastain as a black ops assassin who botches a job, questions her target, and must fight for survival when her own organization marks her for death. The story blends gunfights and chases with family drama as she reconnects with her estranged mother and sister while dealing with past addiction and seeking redemption. No audience-visible woke elements, identity politics, activist dialogue, or representation-focused messaging appear in the plot, characters, or marketing.
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Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Ava.
Woke representation / casting
Lead is a trained female assassin with military backstory justifying skills; supporting cast is diverse in a modern international setting but incidental and unemphasized, with no quotas, signaling, or mismatches.
22%
Woke political dialogue
No activist, ideological, or left-wing political dialogue appears in the script or scenes.
0%
Identity-driven story themes
Core focus is personal redemption, family bonds, and survival; no emphasis on gender, race, or social identity as driving forces.
0%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Black ops organization faces internal betrayal and questioning of orders, but this is standard thriller plotting with no framing as patriarchal, capitalist, or systemic Western critique.
0%
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant; original story with no changes to established characters or source material for ideological reasons.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No complaints exist treating the film as pushing woke, DEI, or identity politics; existing controversy was progressive criticism of production choices.
0%
Creator track record context
Jessica Chastain and Kelly Carmichael have records of advocating female representation and equal pay in production, though this does not shape the film's content or marketing into activist territory.
28%
Production
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