History Film / FastColor

* WeatherControl: [[spoiler:Ruth makes it rain and is visibly seen changing the clouds after her powerful telekinesis gets under control. Other telekinetic women out there are also implied to be this powerful too.]]

* {{Afrofuturism}}: The film is about members of the same African-American family: Bo, her daughter Ruth, and Ruth's daughter Lila. All have powerful telekinetic abilities that have been passed down to women in their family across many generations.

* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Ruth, Bo and their female ancestors have kept their powers hidden due to fearing that they'd be held captive by the government to experiment on. [[spoiler:Other women with abilities are also revealed to live hidden from the world, in Rome and probably elsewhere.]]

''Fast Color'' is a 2018 drama about Ruth, a young woman whose seizures trigger earthquakes. It is the future in the midwestern US, and rain has not fallen for many years. Ruth is a wanderer trying elude the police, but finally on her way home. While on her journey, Ruth runs into a man at a diner, Bill. He offers her a ride and Ruth accepts, but he turns out to be a scientist trying to study her. When he forcibly attempts to draw blood samples from Ruth, she wounds him and escapes, running away in the direction of her old home. There she gets reunited with her mother Bo and daughter Lila, whom Ruth left years ago. Meanwhile, the local sheriff becomes aware that she's back due to Bill getting medical aid, and closes in...

* DisappearedDad: Ruth admits to Lila that because of her drug-addicted youth she's got no clue who Lila's father is. Ellis also appears to have been semi-absent from Ruth's life.

* MissingMom: Ruth left Lila with her mother Bo, feeling unable to care for her as a result of her unstable abilities and drug addiction, the former of which nearly killed Lila. Lila doesn't remember Ruth at all, since this was when she had been an infant.

* AdultFear: Ruth's uncontrolled abilities nearly resulted in her baby drowning when they inadvertently flooded the house. It was this that prompted her to leave again.

* MixedAncestry: Ruth has this as the child of a black mother (Bo) and white father (Ellis). Lila does too, being the child of Ruth and an unknown but obviously black father.

* MixedAncestry: Ruth, who's the child of a black mother (Bo) and white father (Ellis). Technically Lila is this as well, being the child of a biracial mother (Ruth) and an unknown (presumably) black father.

* FeministFantasy: The film centers on three female generations of one family-Bo, her daughter Ruth, and Ruth's daughter Lila. Because of their superpowers (which are also shown to be exclusively held by females), they're on the run from men who want them for their uses. Further, they're black or mixed race, which is also unusual.

* LineageComesFromTheFather: Gender-inverted. Ruth's family's superpowers are passed from mother to daughter.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The superpowers in the film are genetic, hereditary and sex-linked it seems since only women have them.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The superpowers in the film are genetic, hereditary and sex-linked it seems since only females have them (perhaps requiring double X chromosomes).

* MixedAncestry: Ruth, who's the child of a black mother (Bo) and white father (Ellis).

''Fast Color'' is a 2018 drama about Ruth, a young woman whose seizures trigger earthquakes. It is the future in the midwestern US, and rain has not fallen for many years. Ruth is a wanderer, but finally on her way home. One of her seizures draws notice by the police after her seizures cause an earthquake while in a motel. Ruth is desperate to escape attention from them. While on her journey, Ruth runs into a man at a diner, Bill. He offers her a ride and Ruth accepts, but he turns out to be a scientist trying to study her. When he forcibly attempts to draw blood samples from Ruth, she wounds him and escapes, running away in the direction of her old home. There she gets reunited with her mother Bo and daughter Lila, whom Ruth left years ago. Meanwhile, the local sheriff becomes aware that she's back due to Bill getting medical aid, and closes in...

* MagicAIsMagicA: The central rule of the family's powers is that they can only turn things to dust and then back to normal. They can't repair anything that was already broken before they saw it. The one time Lila tries to fix a broken window with her power, it promptly shatters to pieces again.

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end, Ruth and Lila escape in their truck, on the way to Rome where they'll connect with other hidden women who have superpowers.

* TakeMeInstead: Bo offers herself in place of Ruth and Lila to the government men near the end.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Ruth, Bo and their female ancestors have kept their powers hidden due to fearing that they'd be held captive by the government to experiment on. Other women with abilities are also revealed to live hidden from the world, in Rome and probably elsewhere.

* {{Telekinesis}}: This is the main ability of Bo, Ruth and Lila, along with other women in their family. Bo and Lila both demonstrate an ability to mentally "unmake" objects then put them back together. Ruth can't control hers at all to begin with. At one point, Bo reduces the guns of some government agents to dust.

* DisappearedDad: Ruth admits to Lila that because of her drug-addicted youth she's got no clue who her father is. Ellis also appears to have been semi-absent from Ruth's life.

* MissingMom: Ruth left Lila with her mother Bo, feeling unable to care for her as a result of her unstable abilities and drug addiction, the former of which nearly killed Lila. Lila doesn't remember Ruth at all, since this was in her infancy.

* DisappearedDad: Ruth admits to Lila that because of her drug-addicted youth she's got no clue who her father is. Ellis appears to have been semi-absent from Ruth's life.
* ForbiddenLove: Bo's mother tried to stop her from being with Ellis, but by then Bo was pregnant.
* LukeYouAreMyFather:

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ruth ran away from home due to her uncontrolled abilities, got hooked on drugs and then pregnant (without knowing who the father was). Then she came home with her daughter, but left again when her powers endangered the baby, becoming a wanderer for years before finally returning.

''Fast Color'' is a 2018 superhero drama about Ruth, a young woman whose seizure trigger earthquakes. It is the future in the midwestern US, and rain has not fallen for many years. Ruth is a wanderer, but finally on her way home. One of her seizures draws notice by the police after her seizures cause an earthquake while in a motel. Ruth is desperate to escape attention from them. While on her journey, Ruth runs into a man at a diner, Bill. He offers her a ride and Ruth accepts, but he turns out to be a scientist trying to study her. When he forcibly attempts to draw blood samples from Ruth, she wounds him and escapes, running away in the direction of her old home. There she reunites with her mother Bo and daughter Lila, whom Ruth left years ago. Meanwhile, the local sheriff becomes aware that she's back due to Bill getting medical aid, and closes in...

* DarkAndTroubledPast: