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 If someone had told me I'd see Sadie Sink playing an androgynous, guitar-playing punk rocker trying to save the world, I would have said no way. This doesn't mean I can't imagine Sadie playing unique characters, because she's one of the brightest young stars we have today. However, I find it strange that a film like this is coming out. O'Dessa tells the story of the protagonist, who finds herself orphaned and alone on her desolate farm after her mother dies from an illness. In a land where plasma turns the grass purple and the water brown, O'Dessa must fulfill a prophecy about "the seventh son." Yes, she is the seventh son, and that's just reality; there's nothing strange about it. What's special about O'Dessa is how it takes a basic sci-fi romance and elevates it through gender role reversals and queer-coded politics. Visually, the film seems to have taken The Hunger Games and I Saw the Shining from Television and thrown them into a b...