Pulp Fiction (1994) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictNot Woke

18%

Pulp Fiction1994

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What We Think

Pulp Fiction is practically anti-woke by today’s standards, prioritizing chaotic storytelling, messy characters, and a lack of overt morality plays. There’s little sign of modern ideological messaging—its subversiveness is of a very different, apolitical variety.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

Pulp Fiction is driven by character quirks, moral ambiguity, and irreverent storytelling rather than modern identity politics. Characterization is based on personality, skill, and individual flaws, not on force-fit identities or overt ideology.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The film certainly doesn't depict traditional values as sacred, but it doesn't resort to making family, religion, or masculinity the villain either. Its irreverent tone is more about edgy subversion than agenda-driven revisionism.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

Alternative perspectives and flawed characters abound. There’s no attempt to present a preachy, one-sided ideological vision. Instead, viewers get a messy, pluralistic underworld that pokes fun at everyone, without taking clear sides.

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