Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) | How Woke Is It?

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19802009

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What We Think

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 is refreshingly non-woke by today’s standards, focusing on gritty realism, complex characters, and moral ambiguity. It’s far more interested in corruption and decay than box-ticking or signaling modern virtues.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 largely avoids ideological messaging overpowering the plot. Characters are shaped by their choices and flaws, rather than identity boxes. Casting and character arcs seem rooted in the brutal reality of the Yorkshire Ripper case, not in modern checkbox representation.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

The film presents a grim, unvarnished view of institutions like the police and family, but doesn't overtly subvert or mock traditional values. While it highlights institutional failures, it feels more noir than woke-revisionist, simply painting a bleak world rather than attempting to rewrite cultural norms.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

There’s definitely cynicism toward authority, but alternative worldviews aren’t outright caricatured or demonized. Most characters are morally gray, reflecting the genre rather than an ideological bent. It's not an ideological echo chamber, just a miserable one artistically.

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