Jolt (2021) | How Woke Is It?

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Jolt2021

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What We Think

Jolt is a by-the-numbers action-comedy with a heavy dose of female empowerment. It’s not a total ideological battering ram, but the modern, hyper-competent female lead sticks out as textbook recent-Hollywood. Not the wokest movie ever, but you won’t mistake it for a 1980s action classic either.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Jolt casts Kate Beckinsale as a hyper-competent female protagonist with rage-fueled superpowers. While there's the usual action flick absurdity, the film occasionally appears to elevate her skills beyond realism without much struggle or depth. Identity isn't the entire focus, but the over-the-top empowerment is hard to miss.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional masculinity is sidelined, with male characters often used as plot devices or foils. The film doesn’t overtly push any anti-family, anti-religion, or anti-tradition messages, but it does rely on the ‘badass lone woman’ motif, which might feel familiar to those tired of the trope.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Jolt presents some conventional views as background noise rather than explicitly mocking or villainizing them. There’s a general lack of ideology-driven banter, but at the same time, all the moral and narrative weight falls on Beckinsale’s character without much dissent.

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