The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017

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What We Think

The Meyerowitz Stories is a refreshingly non-woke entry, putting family, legacy, and flawed individuals front and center, without preachiness or forced representation. It’s a rare example of a modern film that isn’t aggressively checking the usual ideological boxes.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Meyerowitz Stories focuses on character-driven family drama and complex, flawed individuals. It avoids injecting overtly ideological themes or shoehorning characters based on identity traits. The narrative centers on merit, relationships, and personal struggles, with little emphasis on modern identity politics or forced representation.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Family, legacy, and intergenerational conflict are central, approached with sincerity and nuance. Traditional dynamics are explored rather than undermined or mocked, with no discernible agenda to attack religion, masculinity, or classical morality.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There's some implicit modern sensibility, but a spectrum of viewpoints is presented through generational tension. Alternative perspectives are explored, not caricatured, and there's space for disagreement and nuance among the characters and their worldviews.

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