If Looks Could Kill (1991) | How Woke Is It?

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If Looks Could Kill1991

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What We Think

A slab of pure ‘90s cheese, 'If Looks Could Kill' is refreshingly non-woke. It’s all gadgets, gags, and garden-variety good guys versus over-the-top villains, with no ideological agenda in sight.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

This breezy 1991 spy comedy sticks to conventional tropes with its everyman lead. There is no obvious prioritization of modern identity politics over plot or character development. Casting choices and story beats appear to be driven by genre expectations rather than any attempt at forced representation or ideology-over-narrative.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional gender roles are pretty much intact here, and the film presents masculinity, heroism, and family in a classic Hollywood light. There’s no undercutting of tradition, and no sign that values like religion, patriotism, or morality are being undermined or lampooned in service to modern ideological goals.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There isn’t much room for ideological messaging at all here, let alone monoculture. If anything, the movie is a time capsule of late Cold War-era adventure flicks, featuring mainstream values without turning traditional perspectives into villains or mocking dissenting views.

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