男孩托马斯(迪伦·欧布莱恩 Dylan O'Brien 饰)在电梯中醒来,奇怪的是他除了名字之外什么都记不得。当电梯打开,他来到了一个陌生的地方“林间空地”。这里四周被高大的石头墙包围着,墙内住着许多男孩,有纽特(托马斯·桑斯特 Thomas Sangster 饰)、查克(布雷克·库珀 Blake Cooper 饰)、米诺(李基弘 Ki Hong Lee 饰)等人,他们都被困在迷宫里,而墙外还有一群巨大的怪兽威胁着。一天,电梯为他们送来了一个女孩特雷莎(卡雅·斯考达里奥 Kaya Scodelario 饰),她是来这里的第一个女孩。此后,迷宫逐渐开始发生变化,一切都陷入了混乱中,托马斯和特雷莎决定一起走上破解迷宫之路,找出迷宫背后令人不寒而栗的秘密。
影片改编自詹姆斯·达什纳撰写的同名反乌托邦科幻小说三部曲的第一本。
When Rosa is expected to hand her boss the suntan lotion on a deer hunt, this feels like a sign. Don Reynaldo’s ranch is about to celebrate its farm anniversary, but this passionate hunter’s image is built on a lie. And so, here in the countryside, where men are men, employees are grateful subjects and women diligently and docilely hold it all together, cracks begin to appear in the social life of this microcosm. Ordered around day in and day out, unnoticed by those in her class-conscious surroundings, the menial Rosa gradually becomes an agent of change. While Don Reynaldo’s extended family contorts itself in a bid to save the old order, men begin to arrive at the farm in pickup trucks. Their appearance at the feast and a threat are enough to make the ageing patriarch fear for his life and his family – and force him to act. All that passes is observed by the animals who, either as trophies on the wall or as livestock out to pasture, seem to sense the end of an old hegemony.
With a keen sense of how to deploy omens that herald change, Alejandra Márquez Abella portrays an epochal shift in rural Mexico – as seen by characters who are usually relegated to passive supporting roles.