Blackfish (2013) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictMildly Woke

25%

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What We Think

"Blackfish" is more of an animal rights documentary than a woke sermon. While it has a strong activist stance, it avoids the usual checklist of modern identity politics or overt ideological monoculture, landing it a fairly low woke score.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

While "Blackfish" has a clear activist angle, it largely maintains narrative integrity, focusing on the treatment of orcas rather than shoehorning identity politics or forced representation. Its central concern is animal welfare, not diversity for diversity's sake.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The film critiques corporate practices but doesn't directly undermine religion, family, masculinity, or morality. If anything, it appeals to viewers' sense of ethical responsibility toward animals, hardly an attack on cultural foundations, but it does question certain long-standing practices.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Woke

What is this?

Alternative perspectives (e.g., from pro-SeaWorld sources) are present but get less emphasis; dissent isn't entirely shut out, but the film is clearly told from a single, critical angle. Still, you do get some limited defense from the other side.

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