Synchronic primarily focuses on its sci-fi concept and personal drama rather than overt modern identity politics. The lead roles are given to characters with depth and flaws, not just checkboxes. While it casts Anthony Mackie as a lead, his character is actually complex and faces real dilemmas, so the narrative feels largely intact, with only minor nods to modern messaging.

Traditional themes like friendship, sacrifice, and fatherhood are central to the plot. Masculinity and family aren’t demeaned but are, in fact, pivotal. There’s minimal subversion of gender roles or attempts to revise history with a forced contemporary lens. Religion and culture are touched on only lightly, without overt critique.

The film doesn’t hammer a single ideological drum. Alternative perspectives aren’t ridiculed; there’s some diversity in worldview, and the story is more about individual choices than social commentary. The lack of heavy-handed villainization of traditional views keeps the ideological monoculture to a modest level.