Inland Empire (2006) | How Woke Is It?

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Inland Empire2006

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What We Think

With Lynch, you'll get confusion and weirdness, not modern Hollywood wokeness. Inland Empire is about as non-woke as a film can be, if you can even figure out what’s going on.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Inland Empire is avant-garde to the point of near-incoherence, but it doesn't seem interested in shoehorning identity politics or 'woke' messaging. The casting and character arcs revolve around David Lynch’s surrealist obsessions, not modern diversity checklists.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

The film barely touches, let alone undermines, traditional values. Its bizarre, dreamlike narrative isn’t pushing any clear attack on faith, family, or masculinity. If anything, it’s uninterested in mainstream cultural themes altogether.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Inland Empire takes a hard left turn into the weird, not into woke dogma. There are no hand-wringing lectures, cartoonish bigots, or virtue-signaling monologues. Ideological conformity is the least of your worries with this one.

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