Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015) | How Woke Is It?

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Dead Rising: Watchtower2015

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Dead Rising: Watchtower is refreshingly non-woke, focusing on zombie carnage and dark humor rather than ideological messaging. It’s a relic of when films just wanted to entertain, not lecture.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Dead Rising: Watchtower is essentially a straightforward zombie action flick. The plot relies on survival and chaos, not on identity politics. Characters are cast and developed based more on archetypal roles than on ideology or box-ticking exercises.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

The film neither mocks nor sermonizes about family, faith, masculinity, or tradition. It's focused on horror, satire, and action. There’s practically no subversion or moral grandstanding; it’s just the end of the world as entertainment.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s little to no messaging about social issues, and traditional or dissenting characters aren’t villainized for their worldviews. Instead, the baddies are, well, zombies and shady corporations. It doesn’t push a monoculture beyond standard corporate cynicism.

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