Taste of Cherry (1997) | How Woke Is It?

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Taste of Cherry1997

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What We Think

Taste of Cherry is about as non-woke as things get these days. Instead of chasing the latest narrative fads, it wrestles with the human condition in earnest. If you’re looking for something blissfully unconcerned with checkboxes and hashtags, this is the one.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

This film is a textbook example of narrative focus and restraint. There is no prioritization of identity politics; character and story drive the experience. If anything, it's almost ascetically minimalist, refreshingly free from forced representation or ideological lectures.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Taste of Cherry handles big questions like religion, mortality, and meaning with subtlety. It doesn't subvert tradition or ridicule religious/cultural elements, so any deviation from tradition is more philosophically probing than agenda-driven. Its treatment is thoughtful rather than undermining.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The film is about existential questions rather than social engineering. There’s no evidence of ideological monoculture or the sidelining of alternate worldviews. Instead, it explores multiple perspectives on life, death, and faith through genuine conversation.

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