The Greasy Strangler (2016) | How Woke Is It?

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The Greasy Strangler2016

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What We Think

The Greasy Strangler is a bizarre outlier that largely dodges Hollywood’s current woke tropes, opting instead for crude comedy and intentional absurdity. Probably the least woke film you’ll ever see, if you can stomach it.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Greasy Strangler prioritizes absurdity and shock value over any recognizable agenda. Characters are odd, but not chosen or depicted with any apparent focus on modern identity politics. Its eccentric approach actually defies current Hollywood trends.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

There’s little overt commentary on family, tradition, masculinity, or morality; the film is more interested in gross-out gags than upending social norms. None of the traditional institutions are really the butt of the joke, the real target is good taste.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Not Woke

What is this?

If anything, the film is aggressively apolitical, focusing on weirdness and transgression over woke one-note messaging. Its world is too surreal to push any modern ideological unity or to lampoon traditional values in any coherent fashion.

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