Joe's Apartment (1996) | How Woke Is It?

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Joe's Apartment1996

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What We Think

For anyone sick of modern Hollywood’s wokeness, Joe’s Apartment is refreshingly brainless, apolitical, and uninterested in social issues. About as non-woke as you can get.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Joe's Apartment is a goofy comedy with narrative integrity mostly intact, its focus is on gross-out humor and absurdity, not diversity box-checking. Characters are played for laughs rather than as identity showcases, and there's no evident forced representation or hyper-competency to speak of.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film mostly avoids political or cultural statements altogether, centering instead on slapstick, crude jokes, and its infamous roach chorus. There’s no real subversion of gender roles or cultural revisionism, because the movie simply isn’t interested in those themes.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative perspectives aren’t mocked or villainized, because, frankly, there aren’t any perspectives at all except 'roaches are funny.' Any worldview is pretty much irrelevant to this film’s purpose.

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