The Caveman's Valentine (2001) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictMildly Woke

35%

The Caveman's Valentine2001

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What We Think

The Caveman's Valentine, though centered on a marginalized character, generally maintains narrative focus and avoids heavy-handed ideological messaging. It offers room for nuance in conflict and characterization, keeping its woke levels modest by today’s standards.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Mildly Woke

What is this?

While the lead character is a Black man dealing with mental illness, the story focuses on personal struggle and mystery, without using identity as a shortcut for depth. There’s little indication the film sacrificed narrative for forced representation or ideological box-ticking. Character development and plot progress mostly on their own merits.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The film portrays its protagonist sympathetically without overtly demonizing traditional values, masculinity, or family. While themes touch on societal treatment of the marginalized, it doesn’t aggressively undermine religious or cultural foundations. There's some critique of social systems, but it doesn't stray into preachiness.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Woke

What is this?

The story emphasizes the struggles of an outsider but presents multiple perspectives, including flawed police and community characters. Dissenting views aren’t simply villains, and the world isn’t depicted as strictly black-and-white between oppressors and the oppressed.

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