Les Misérables (2019) | How Woke Is It?

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Les Misérables2019

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What We Think

The 2019 Les Misérables delivers a thoroughly modern, urban social critique, with identity and ideology at its narrative core. Traditional values and authority figures get edged out, making the film feel more like an ideological statement than a nuanced story. High on woke, light on pluralism.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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The film foregrounds social themes of police brutality, systemic injustice, and marginalized identity, often prioritizing identity-based storytelling over nuanced individual arcs. Representation feels more about highlighting contemporary issues than organic character development, making it come off a bit forced in places.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional authority figures like the police are depicted almost exclusively as corrupt or oppressive, with little nuance or sympathy. Community, family, and even religious touchstones are depicted as fractured or powerless, playing to modern cynical tropes rather than honoring foundational values.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative or traditionally-minded perspectives (such as law-and-order or patriotism) are mostly villainized; there is little space for dissent or debate within the film’s worldview. It’s a strikingly one-sided moral universe, in our view.

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