Spies Like Us (1985) | How Woke Is It?

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Spies Like Us1985

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What We Think

“Spies Like Us” is blissfully un-woke by modern standards. It's a time capsule of 80s goofy comedy, with little interest in ideological messaging, forced representation, or cultural revisionism. If only Hollywood could lighten up like this today.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

There’s virtually no sign of forced identity politics here, for better or worse, it's a screwball Cold War comedy focused on slapstick and satire, not ideology. Characters are flawed and grow through mishaps, with no one feeling shoehorned in to check a box.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional American tropes and archetypes dominate. Masculinity, bumbling or not, is played mostly for laughs and isn’t pathologized; classic values (and incompetence) drive the plot. There's no agenda to undermine family, faith, or tradition, just 80s absurdity.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

While the film pokes fun at authority and bureaucracy, it doesn't preach or present a one-sided moral worldview. Satire goes both ways, and alternative perspectives aren’t unfairly demonized or reduced to caricature, everyone’s in on the joke.

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