College (2008) | How Woke Is It?

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College2008

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What We Think

With hardly a trace of modern wokeness, "College" is about as non-woke as a R-rated teen comedy can get. If you’re allergic to preachy messages, this film is a time capsule back to a less politically-correct (and less subtle) era.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

"College" sticks to an old-school raunchy teen comedy formula, focusing on crude humor, slapstick, and awkward coming-of-age mishaps. Character traits are delivered with all the subtlety of a beer keg, and identity politics hardly makes an appearance. The film seems entirely uninterested in shoehorning in modern ideological concerns.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

This movie is a throwback to the days when college comedies celebrated masculinity (however immature), the pursuit of girls, and irreverent antics. It doesn't subvert family, gender roles, or tradition, if anything, it wallows in the stereotypes that modern wokeness loves to criticize.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s no ideological monoculture here, unless you count the universal call to lower your standards and party hard. Dissenting perspectives aren’t so much villainized as roundly ignored. It's a one-track train to debauched fun, not a TED talk on modern values.

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