Heaven's Gate (1980) | How Woke Is It?

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Heaven's Gate1980

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What We Think

Heaven's Gate is more a sprawling epic mired in frontier pessimism than a woke diatribe. It fails for excess, not ideology, the real problem here is overindulgence, not a checklist of modern political box-ticking.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

Heaven's Gate is much more interested in bleak authenticity than pushing modern identity politics. Characters are complex but not defined by contemporary virtue signals. If anything, the film’s narrative gets bogged down in ambition and scale rather than any forced emphasis on race, gender, or sexuality.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

While critical of certain aspects of American expansion and capitalist greed, the film still largely respects traditional values like family, faith, and even battered masculine heroism. It doesn’t aggressively undermine cultural foundations, instead focusing on the harsh realities of frontier life.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The film explores class conflict and corruption, but does not use modern ideological terminology or reduce characters to caricatures. Different viewpoints are dramatized with some complexity, and dissent isn't simply villainized. There’s no heavy-handed moral orthodoxy here.

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