Kids separated from their families and placed in detention camps.
Teenagers rising up to push back against an overbearing system.
Whenever controversies from real life intersect with moviemaking, many directors brush off the coincidence.
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But Nelson embraces the similarities.
The Darkest Mindsis a resistance story.
Survivors find they can manipulate electricity and levitate objects, or harness the power of fire.
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What we really tried to do in this movie is to encourage that sort of uplift, she adds.
These are people that dont have any power.
These are people that traditionally adults would look at and just dismiss, Nelson says.
