The film reflects anxieties about and technocratic overreach . The Scorch is a direct result of solar flares (nature’s wrath), while the horror of the film comes from the human response (the creation of WICKED). It suggests that the "solution" to a global crisis can often be more dehumanizing than the crisis itself.
Unlike the Glade, which had rules and a semblance of society, the Scorch is a "burned world." subtitle Maze.Runner.The.Scorch.Trials.2015.108...
The central conflict of the text is the agency of the "Immunes." The film reflects anxieties about and technocratic overreach
: The landscape of buried skyscrapers and endless sand symbolizes the failure of the previous generation’s civilization. Unlike the Glade, which had rules and a
: Thomas and the Gladers realize that WICKED (World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department) was never providing a "rescue." The facility they are brought to at the start of the film is just another level of the maze—a clinical, sterile environment that masks a factory of human harvesting.