Still Smokin (1983) | How Woke Is It?

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Still Smokin1983

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What We Think

Still Smokin is about as far from 'woke' as you can get, raunchy, irreverent, and more focused on laughs than lecturing the audience. While it’s definitely not refined, its nonchalance toward modern identity issues keeps it well below today’s 'woke' threshold.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Still Smokin focuses on comedy rooted in absurd stoner antics, rather than promoting any particular ideology. Characters are chosen for their humor and chemistry, not to check identity boxes, and the film doesn’t sacrifice narrative for social messaging. If anything, it’s more likely to offend modern sensibilities than be considered 'woke'.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

The film gleefully pokes fun at everything, including drug culture, authority, and family structures, but it doesn't aim to undermine traditional values through a modern lens. Its humor is more juvenile and irreverent than ideological, and it certainly isn’t pushing progressive redefinitions of culture.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There’s no forced ideological uniformity here, just countercultural humor and wild antics. Traditional or alternative perspectives are lampooned for laughs, not excluded or villainized. The film comes from an era before Hollywood’s strong push for messaging, so a range of attitudes are present, mostly in jest.

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