Leatherface (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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Leatherface2017

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What We Think

For better or worse, "Leatherface" is blissfully non-woke. It’s all about blood and brutality, not identity or ideology, making this one of the rare horror movies to skip the 2010s’ usual social messaging.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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"Leatherface" largely sticks to its horror roots without shoehorning in overt identity politics. Character focus remains on personality and the macabre story rather than checking diversity boxes. Any casting choices seem organic rather than forced to hit representation quotas.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film doesn’t really concern itself with modern critiques of masculinity, religion, or family, it's more preoccupied with good ol’ fashioned mayhem. There's violence galore, but not much in the way of undermining traditional cultural concepts. If anything, it leans into classic horror tropes.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s no lecturing or ideological grandstanding here, just chainsaws and carnage. The film doesn't mock, villainize, or even pay much attention to contemporary political themes, and diverse viewpoints (or any viewpoints) are more or less absent in its single-minded pursuit of horror.

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