The Red Turtle (2016) | How Woke Is It?

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The Red Turtle2016

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What We Think

The Red Turtle is about as non-woke as modern cinema gets, with universal themes, traditional storytelling, and absolutely no pandering to current ideological trends. A rare breath of fresh air from the usual Hollywood playbook.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Red Turtle focuses entirely on a universal, wordless survival and transformation story. There’s no forced character diversity, identity politics, or ideological messaging at the expense of character, realism, or narrative structure. It’s a meditative, old-fashioned tale that values human experience over trendy themes.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

This film steers clear of undermining traditions, family, or masculinity. It centers on archetypal themes, struggle, love, nature, parenthood, with respect and no mocking or subverting of gender roles or established cultural touchpoints. If anything, it celebrates core human values.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There is absolutely no evidence of ideological lecturing, monoculture, or villainization of dissenting perspectives. The story is intentionally ambiguous, letting viewers draw their own philosophical conclusions, and is completely free of modern ideological divisions.

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