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The days before woke. A lot of fun, and very easy watching.

Floppy dick ending.

The series was generally well filmed and edited. There were surprisingly few interviewees for having some 200,000 attendees, but so be it. They spent all the budget on music rights, probably.
While the narrative follows the downward spiral of the festival pretty accurately, suddenly at the end the director / producers / buzzkill dumbass filmmakers decide to end it with a 20-minute lecture on the #metoo movement and about the plight of the poor downtrodden vagina.
Until then, the film was about the festival, and it should have ended on the festival. Except it didn't. it had to run with the feminist slant. It's so awkward that it looked tacked on and shoehorned in.

Three people DIED at that festival, but the filmmakers spent the last half of the last episode angry that someone's tit was grabbed in a mosh pit.

So, just switch off the last half of the third episode, and you'll get through it with only mild woke damage.

Marketed as woke but surprisingly only about 5% woke.

There is outright misogyny in the writing for some of the other natives. Her line "Because you all think that I can't." In response to her being asked why she wants to hunt, could have been rewritten to get around that. This movie's other elements surprisingly lack woke elements accept for the small misogyny already mentioned.

Typical, unrealistic, action movie

The storyline is well above average for a covert operative adventure plot. The acting and direction was spectacular. The special effects are outstanding. This film contains the finest drone cinematography I've ever seen. It's worth watching for that alone. The fight scenes are typical Hollywood BS. A real hand-to-hand combat fight rarely lasts a full 30 seconds. Also, I have a problem with movies depicting women competing with men in hand-to-hand combat. It's unrealistic. In reality, women should be trained to strike-and-flee when confronted by any man willing to hurt a woman.

Biography, necessarily woke-ish

Since it's biographical, the film isn't forced woke. But the character in question is very gay and a strong supporter of Castro, which makes the film portray communism and homosexuality in a positive light.
Lots of gay kissing and gay sex scenes. But think of the film like "MILK:" there is no biography without the gay, which is that by which the character has to define himself.

Is a gay film necessarily woke?

A conundrum. This film was made seemingly before the overtly woke wave of sexuality and racism slapping the cheeks of our children really hit the mainstream. In that context, is it blacklisting-level woke?

The elements are there, minus the racism.
A gay couple who run a nightclub (with the "feminine" partner playing a drag queen) must act "straight" for the sake of meeting their son's extremely conservative parents.
There are jabs at conservatives, but then again, there are jabs at the gay lifestyle. There are hints of "racist white people" when the issue of the gay dude (played by Robin Williams) being Jewish is somehow an issue.

That said, there are no "poor poor oppressed penises (penii?) being trampled by Evil White Men" bigotry scenes, no lashing out in long teary soliloquies about oppression, no checkbox "black female lesbians who don't need no man yass queen" characters.

So while it does technically checkbox for the woke, this film is still heavily enjoyable even from a mighty conservative viewpoint.

No woke

Surprisingly fun and engaging, even "inclusive" without rubbing it in your face. No political jabs, racism, sexism, woke characters or woke takes.

Gay, gay, gay.

Not for the average viewer, obviously geared to that 0.5 percent hellbent on taking over all the media. Pass.

Whoever created this never read Lovecraft

One of the most racist, bigoted, vile programs ever produced, most obviously by some mentally retarded producer bent on banking on Lovecraft’s name without ever having read a single word. Hard, hard pass. The world is worse for this having been considered fit to broadcast.

Elegant, non-woke

The mental state of the aging father is well-illustrated in this slow, but deeply reverberating film starring the great Anthony Hopkins. There is no woke, just story, which is rare for British films, honestly. A rare gem.

Dull.

Casting is woke, making for a dull story, dull script, forced and boring flick. No motivation for any of the characters, no relatable characters, nothing but an attempt to affirmative action its way into existence. No wonder it was cancelled after a single season.

Deep down this is monstrously woke

The film was pretty decent on the whole, but it hid a subtle, manipulative message below the surface.

The two main (white) monster hunters were portrayed as the foolish upholders of a kind of white supremacy—an English, (white) king and queen, who created a false history about the monsters that helped them control their subjects. Three of these four white characters became the story’s main villains.

The other main white character was somewhat heroic but also slightly stupid/clumsy and misguided. He was befriended by the wisest character in the film—a young black girl who was the first to become “woke” to systemic injustice. Her first task on becoming woke was to bring her foolish white friend round to her way of thinking.

There's a scene at the end where the girl gives a big speech to the townsfolk about how they've been fed lies about their history. This triggers a revolution. We see a statue outside the royal palace.

A (black) captain refuses to carry out the king's orders to attack, and the king and queen flee as buildings collapse. We see the statute again, in pieces on the floor. Clearly a nod towards tearing down statues of old white men.

So yes, the film is woke.