Super Dark Times (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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Super Dark Times2017

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What We Think

Super Dark Times is a breath of non-woke fresh air: its realistic, character-driven storytelling avoids heavy-handed messaging, offering instead a grounded coming-of-age thriller free from Hollywood’s usual identity politics.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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The film’s story unfolds naturally, focusing on the psychological fallout among teens after a tragic accident. Characters are drawn with depth and humanity rather than as vehicles for identity-driven messaging. There’s minimal emphasis on traits like race or gender and no sense that narrative is sacrificed for ideology.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Super Dark Times centers on troubled adolescence, friendship, and moral crisis. It doesn’t go out of its way to undermine family, masculinity, or traditional values; in fact, it’s refreshingly apolitical. Traditional dynamics, including male friendship and personal responsibility, are realistically depicted without snark or stereotyping.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative perspectives aren’t demonized here, if anything, the film avoids overt ideology entirely. The conflicts are human and moral, not political, and there’s no agenda-driven villainizing of dissenting worldviews. The film lands squarely outside the current ideological monoculture in Hollywood.

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