The Bad Batch (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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The Bad Batch2017

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What We Think

The Bad Batch checks many boxes on the modern 'woke' scorecard, emphasizing identity over story, undermining old-fashioned values, and flipping tradition on its head, sometimes at the cost of depth or variety in viewpoints.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Bad Batch puts heavy emphasis on unconventional casting and identity-focused character elements, often sidelining traditional storytelling or character development in favor of themes around marginalization and alienation. It appears style and political subtext sometimes take priority over coherent narrative arcs or character motivation.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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This film paints traditional American values, community, religion, family, as either grotesque or irrelevant. Masculinity is subverted and portrayed through damaged or villainous characters. Moral lines are blurred throughout, with little respect for common frameworks of good and evil, opting for a nihilistic, almost dystopian worldview.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative worldviews, especially those rooted in faith or tradition, are absent or portrayed through a cynical, negative lens. There’s very little space for genuine diversity of thought; instead, the film embraces an edgy, modern skepticism about all norms, with dissenting views getting little sympathy or real representation.

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