The Burrowers (2008) | How Woke Is It?

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The Burrowers2008

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What We Think

The Burrowers sticks to atmospheric horror and period storytelling, steering clear of modern ideological tropes, forced representation, or aggressive revisionism. It's about as non-woke as you can get for post-2000 genre films.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Burrowers is firmly a horror-western with its narrative centered around frontier survival and supernatural threats. Characters are developed according to their setting, not selected for identity politics, and the plot doesn't detour into modern ideological statements.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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While the film depicts tensions between Native Americans and settlers, it mostly reflects the harsh realities of its historical context rather than pushing a revisionist or anti-traditional narrative. Classic themes like family, survival, and manhood retain their importance.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The movie presents a range of motivations, with prejudice shown as part of the period rather than a forced current-day moral. There is no clear villainization of traditional values or overt ideological preaching, just the brutal Old West and monsters.

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