The Peasants (2023) | How Woke Is It?

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The Peasants2023

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What We Think

The Peasants is refreshingly non-woke by current Hollywood standards. It focuses on genuine, rooted storytelling, avoids betraying historical or cultural realism, and lets its traditional setting breathe. This one’s more for the lovers of actual stories than social lectures.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Peasants focuses heavily on traditional storytelling, with characters motivated by personal desires, societal pressures, and timeless themes. Little evidence suggests modern identity ideology drives character creation or arcs. Forced representation and the Mary Sue effect seem almost nonexistent. Narrative comes first.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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This film immerses viewers in Polish rural life from the turn of the 20th century, portraying religion, family, and community in a grounded manner. There’s little subversion of traditional roles or customs, and historical context is respected. The movie appears allergic to ‘modern’ revisionism.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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While naturally sympathetic to some characters’ struggles, the film presents pluralism: traditional values and social structures are depicted with nuance, not as outright villains. No modern ideological monoculture is imposed; worldviews clash and coexist as dictated by the content, not contemporary politics.

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