The Predator (2018) | How Woke Is It?

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The Predator2018

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What We Think

"The Predator" has its woke moments, especially in casting and poking at traditional roles, but it never goes full Hollywood lecture. It’s more action with a dash of modern sensibility than a heavy-handed message movie.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The film inserts several diverse characters, such as a female scientist and a neurodivergent child, whose roles sometimes feel driven by contemporary casting trends rather than organic story needs. However, the plot remains a fairly straightforward action-sci-fi and doesn’t fully derail for ideological messaging.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Masculinity is still present, though often played for laughs or subverted, traditional predator-hunting soldiers are portrayed as damaged or dysfunctional. While family and heroism aren’t explicitly undermined, doses of snark at traditional roles are present.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s some satire at the expense of traditional authority and military, but it’s not overbearing. Most characters fall broadly into the modern mold, but there’s the occasional nod to ‘old-school’ action tropes. Dissent isn’t deeply explored, but it’s not aggressively opposed either.

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