The Children's Train (2024) | How Woke Is It?

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The Children's Train2024

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What We Think

In a rare move for recent cinema, 'The Children's Train' resists shoehorning in modern ideological baggage, opting instead for a respectful, authentic, and non-woke period drama. It’s refreshingly grounded, definitely off the beaten woke path.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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In our view, 'The Children's Train' presents its historical narrative without obvious interference from modern ideological demands. Characters are depicted with depth, and identity factors serve the plot rather than overwhelm it. Forced representation or out-of-place identity politics are absent.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film appears respectful of traditional themes, family, faith, and community hardship. Rather than undermining these, it seems to evoke their importance within a historical Italian context, steering clear of revisionist takes or gender tropes common in more overtly woke dramas.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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'The Children's Train' doesn’t seem to villainize traditional values or mock dissenting worldviews. It instead offers complexity and nuance, so if there’s a moral center, it’s rooted in the era’s real-world challenges instead of a 2020s ideological consensus.

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