Friend Request (2016) | How Woke Is It?

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Friend Request2016

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What We Think

Friend Request is blissfully non-woke. It sticks to classic horror elements, mostly skins over identity politics, and steers clear of modern culture wars. If only Hollywood could keep things this simple more often.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Friend Request is a fairly straightforward supernatural horror film where character identity rarely overshadows the main plot. The story centers on classic horror tropes rather than ticking diversity boxes or prioritizing ideology over suspense and scares.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

Traditional values, such as friendship and consequences of social isolation, form the movie’s core. There’s no fashionable mockery of religion, masculinity, or family, and the film stays firmly within the established boundaries of the horror genre.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There’s minimal overt ideological messaging, and dissenting views aren’t villainized. The film focuses on haunted social media rather than 21st-century political debates, so viewers are spared any heavy-handed moralizing or uniform woke outlooks.

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