Paterson (2016) | How Woke Is It?

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Paterson2016

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What We Think

Paterson stays refreshingly focused on real people and their intimate, ordinary experiences. You'll be hard pressed to find any woke grandstanding, forced diversity, or ideological proselytizing here, just honest storytelling. A rare non-woke oasis in modern cinema.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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Paterson is a quiet, character-driven film with no discernible emphasis on identity politics. Characters are defined by their actions and dreams, not shoehorned diversity or forced representation. There's no sense of narrative compromise or ideological grandstanding.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Likewise, the film neither mocks nor undermines religion, family, or traditional values. If anything, it offers a sincere, even poetic depiction of everyday life, love, and creative struggle, without soapboxing or subverting cultural norms.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative worldviews aren't demonized or lampooned. The film is almost apolitical in its focus. There’s little sign the script panders to one set of modern ideological assumptions, characters live genuine lives without being mouthpieces for any message.

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