Blonde (2022) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictMildly Woke

33%

Blonde2022

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What We Think

Blonde is more of an artistic misery marathon than a 'woke' manifesto. It focuses on trauma and bleakness rather than checking boxes from the usual ideological playbook. Overly grim and bordering on nihilistic, but not a poster child for Hollywood wokeness.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Mildly Woke

What is this?

Blonde arguably prioritizes controversial themes and shock value over historical fidelity, but doesn't really shoehorn in identity politics or forced diversity. Character depth centers on Marilyn Monroe's suffering, not on her identity markers, with less evidence of overt ideological compromise in basic narrative or casting choices.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Woke

What is this?

The film does cast traditional relationships, religion, and masculinity in an extremely negative light, almost relentlessly so. While it's aiming for critique of 1950s Hollywood, the heavy-handed depiction of damaged men and corrupt systems does border on undermining cultural pillars, though it’s more misery-porn than typical woke rewriting.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

Alternative viewpoints do exist, largely in the negative portrait of those around Monroe, but the film doesn't focus on modern progressive orthodoxy. Instead, it dwells in bleakness rather than preachiness, sidestepping the expected ideological groupthink common in truly 'woke' productions.

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