While 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' is a cult classic with an eccentric plot, it leans heavily into transgressive sexual and gender identity themes. The focus on subverting expectations sometimes overtakes narrative cohesion, although the story remains entertaining. Casting choices and character arcs definitely prioritize shock value and identity expression over traditional storytelling, but it fits the film’s campy style.

This film unmistakably challenges traditional norms around gender, sexuality, and even marriage, often parodying or inverting them. Masculinity and religion are openly mocked, and the film celebrates behaviors that were considered taboo at the time. It’s a pastiche meant to push boundaries, but from a non-woke perspective, it’s downright revolutionary, and not in the retro, feel-good sense.

Traditional worldviews are played entirely for laughs, the 'straight-laced' couple is clueless or mocked, while sexual liberation dominates. There’s barely any nod to alternative, non-transgressive viewpoints, and the few characters who express doubts are ridiculed or outmaneuvered. Pluralism is not really the name of the game here, unless you count total chaos as an alternative.