GoodFellas (1990) | How Woke Is It?

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GoodFellas1990

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GoodFellas is about as non-woke as it gets for modern cinema. Its focus is on gritty realism and character over ideology, sticking to authentic storytelling without today’s trendy moralizing. A true classic, and refreshingly unapologetic.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

GoodFellas tells a gritty, character-driven story without shoehorning in modern identity politics or diversity for diversity's sake. Characters are plausible for the Italian-American mobster milieu, with focus on personality and authentic flaws rather than representation checklists.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Masculinity and family roles are depicted in a traditional, if criminal, context. The film doesn't mock or pathologize traditional values, if anything, it shows the downside of the mob lifestyle without recasting more classic themes through a modern lens.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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GoodFellas doesn’t waste time villainizing dissenting worldviews or preaching a modern moral consensus. It presents characters and choices largely as products of their era, not as stand-ins for contemporary ideological points.

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