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White Guilt
There is an implication that she basically did this whole thing because she's a rich white person. This is not to say white people can't do nice things for black people but her motivation was suspicious enough that I put it into mild woke category.
Created: 06-24-2023
Depends What You Consider Woke, I Guess
Someone else gave it a woke-free rating. But to me, the whole Ukraine vs Russia thing was something cooked up by Biden to distract from his miserable presidency, just as the calling Trump a Russian colluder was a narrative they did to try to discredit him. Ukraine is a country that is still pretty darned Soviet (I know this, as I was going to there for Peace Corps then decided against). Russia on the other hand largely turned its back on all that, and should be our ally if not for leftists constantly trying to stir up mischief.
So yes, you could say this is not woke if you buy the Ukraine narrative. I don't however.
Created: 06-24-2023
The Premise is Woke
There might not be alot of black or gay representation. But the premise revolves around "secrets the church is keeping hidden." Part of wokeness is acting like the church is either molesting kids, hurting gay people, or is engaged in some sort of evil and/or superstitious activity. So by default, when a film pushes the idea of church conspiracy, it's woke.
Created: 06-24-2023
Action Film Tainted By Woke
Uhhh let's see, so the premise is that a leftist politician (I think her name was Sofia Flores) is murdered. We get to hear her speech and it's filled with cliches about taking back power/money from the government.
This is followed by our hero rescuing an FBI agent from "domestic terrorists" who are actually just rednecks. Which in turn is followed by a sorta true believer type getting harassed by cops for having a gun in his own car. Ummmm, you are allowed to carry a gun in your car with a permit. So in the first 30 minutes, we have: leftist propaganda from a politician, demonizing Southerners, and acting like the 2nd amendment doesn't exist. Oh yeah, and there's a "strong woman" who gets to fight with everyone and is always right, is black, and has an awful buzzed bottom haircut.
The action portion was okay but there was alot that I couldn't enjoy about this film.
Created: 06-24-2023
Decidedly Not Woke
The main character earns his powers through hard work. Predominant;y espouses capitalist work ethic, and for the most part, the hero system works this way. They are essentially licensed businessmen.
There is a minor bit at season 4 & 5 or so where you kinda sympathize with the villains, and there are very vague overtones of a kinda social class issue (basically due to being unable to do hero work without licensing, they talk about "liberation"). But they basically tell us that despite having a hard-luck story, these are villains going about things the wrong way.
Created: 06-23-2023
Ariel is basically a trans-woman
The subtext is subtle, and pretty benign.
Ursula is modeled (rather obviously) after drag performer Divine. The implication of the deal with (Divine) is that she is transformed but she cannot speak. In other words, this is identical to the experience of a male to female crossdresser or trans-girl, who cannot speak (because it will expose her). The term "fish" is also slang for a passable crossdresser. This in turn makes Eric a trans chaser. To ice the cake, Ariel's father basically performs a surgery with a sharp implement, and then the problem of her being the wrong body is solved.
So yes, there are LGBT elements to the film. The full song of Part of your World is a bit edgy too.
But who cares! It's a great film.
Created: 06-23-2023
Ugh
Well, besides race swapping Mary Jane and making all the lead characters as bratty kids, I despised that Aunt May is basically a social worker or something giving people free food because of her pure pureness. They help some villains who turn around and kill them.
Not conventionally woke, but continues the trend where villains and thugs are "really not that bad", and how it's perfectly acceptable to have random criminals kill your aunt. We see more than a few villain glorifying films like Maleficent and Cruella, and the left seems to like criminals and lowlifes in general.
The fact that his mom is proud of him basically screwing up reality because he's a brat and can't make up his mind, then he fixes things and it doesn't even manage to bring people who died back?!? Yeah, this movie blows. Why does nobody tell him flatly that NO, that wasn't a good plan you did? That these people are hoodlums, and you caused your mother's death because you couldn't let Doctor Strange cast a spell properly, and then compounded it by trying to help villains instead of just letting Strange send them back. That you almost imploded the universe because you are a millennial twit!
Created: 06-23-2023
Pretty Good Actually
There's some feminism (the guys are useless, the girls are for the most part badass fighters) and some lesbianism, and some pagan themes. But for the most part, this is a thoroughly enjoyable watch. I wish more modern movies and shows used this as a model.
Created: 06-23-2023
Archie Bunker Saves This Show
Obviously, the writers of this were woke, but they managed to properly characterize a regular American "bigot" in a way that most audiences connect with him. In other words, it's a failed early attempt at woke.
Sane people root for Archie Bunker, not Meathead and his stupid wife.
Created: 06-23-2023
Hilariously Woke and Unwatchable
Let's start with the first five minutes, where the film proves that the woke crowd does not have an objective definition of the words "handsome/beautiful" or "plain". They use historical makeup, which is a nice touch, I guess, but the fairy queen or whatever actually looks worse in her true form. Meanwhile the Mary Sue, Belle, is "plain" as an informed attribute. Her actress is also a "feminist" as an informed attribute, despite playing a role that is literally abused by a raging beast. Oh yes, and one more quoted term. She tells us this is a "provincial" (meaning small and backwater) town, yet somehow it contains a very multiracial demographic. Mmmm, right. Let's redefine terms for fun.
Created: 06-23-2023
Mixed Feelings
On the one hand, I am greatly relieved that they didn't turn Jasmine into some hijab-covered submissive Saudi woman.
On the other, she basically spends an entire song bemoaning the fact that nobody listens to her because you're a woman. Uhhhh, you're daughter of a sultan? I'm pretty sure if you wanted to pick your husband, boot Jafar from office, or anything else, not only do you have power, but the sultan does not seem like he'd refuse his daughter. So basically, she came across as weaker than the original Jasmine. "Strong" woman indeed.
Indifferent about Will Smith tbh (genies don't have race), and giving him a romantic angle was okay... I guess... The movie wasn't as bad as Beauty and the Beast's remake, so there's that.
Created: 06-23-2023
Sigh...
Let's just review the cast...
The original Little Mermaid is already subversive (there are clear drag elements to Ursula and this deal, suggesting that Ariel is trying to pass as a woman, and cannot use "her" voice), meaning in some ways this is less woke in that scene, because they replaced the original Ursula with Melissa McCarthy. But since I can't stand her, that's not an improvement. Then there's redhead erasure again, race swapping her. I am pretty sure they added in the queen (probably destroying the original character's motivation, who was motherless, and thus had nobody to defend her against her father). Gender-swapping characters.
So yeah, in addition to making it woke, you also made it more dull than the original by pulling out all the original subtext of the Ursula scene.
Created: 06-23-2023
