Brain Damage (1988) | How Woke Is It?

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Brain Damage1988

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What We Think

“Brain Damage” is a product of its era: completely uninterested in the identity-driven, ideological storytelling that dominates today. If you’re on the lookout for the modern 'woke' checklist, you’ll find this delightfully absent.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

“Brain Damage” is a cult horror film that puts narrative and shock value squarely at the forefront, without obvious ideological priorities. Identity markers like race, gender, or sexuality are barely present as forces steering character choices or plot.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

The film focuses on addiction and personal downfall, but doesn’t appear to take shots at traditional values, religion, or masculinity in any overtly modern, revisionist way. If anything, it’s more interested in bizarre horror than social commentary.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Alternative viewpoints aren’t suppressed nor is there a sense of overwhelming ideological uniformity. The movie seems content to let its freak flag fly with little commentary on right or wrong, let alone woke orthodoxy.

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