The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | How Woke Is It?

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920

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What We Think

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is refreshingly non-woke, focusing instead on suspense, atmosphere, and classic storytelling. It makes no effort to insert modern ideological themes or forced representation, and so scores a perfect zero for wokeness.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a product of its time, focused on psychological horror and expressionist aesthetics, rather than identity politics or forced representation. Characters are developed for their narrative roles, not as vehicles for ideological statements.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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There is no subversion of traditional values or modern reinterpretation of cultural foundations. The film is centered on themes like madness, authority, and reality, with no meddling in modern gender politics, religious revisionism, or moral posturing.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative perspectives aren't mocked or villainized, if anything, the film’s ambiguity about truth and delusion is refreshingly pluralistic. Modern ideological concerns are simply absent from this classic.

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