Swimming with Sharks (1994) | How Woke Is It?

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12%

Swimming with Sharks1994

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What We Think

Swimming with Sharks is about as non-woke as you can get for a ‘90s industry satire. The story, characters, and worldview are grounded in personality and power, not ideology or identity checklists. Refreshingly, it leaves modern political obsessions at the door.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Swimming with Sharks is built around character flaws, ambition, and the brutal realities of Hollywood, not diversity, forced representation, or identity politics. Characters are defined by their personalities and actions, not checkboxes or quotas. Narrative focus remains sharp, without any modern “woke” distractions, just the raw, cutthroat world of 1990s showbiz.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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This film doesn’t set out to rewire society’s view of family, gender roles, or cultural traditions. If anything, its main obsession is power and workplace manipulation, not religion, masculinity, or values. There’s little attempt to subvert classic foundations, and the film’s cynicism is universal, not targeted at any traditional institution in particular.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The movie offers a satire of Hollywood, but it doesn’t present a singular, modern ideology. Both the tyrannical boss and his desperate assistant are flawed in believable, non-ideological ways. No obvious “good guys” or thinly-veiled villains stand in for conservative or traditional viewpoints. The dark humor mostly leaves modern identity debates untouched.

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