The Room (2003) | How Woke Is It?

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The Room2003

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What We Think

In our view, 'The Room' is about as non-woke as films get. Its only agenda is baffling its audience with odd dialogue and awkward storytelling. Social issues aren’t on the table, only spoons and inexplicable football tossing.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

If anything, 'The Room' is thoroughly uninterested in modern identity politics. The film focuses entirely on personal drama and bizarre romantic entanglements, with no discernible forced representation or political messaging. The characters’ flaws are legendary, not because of any agenda, but due to the film’s infamous writing.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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'The Room' operates in a vacuum of ideology. Traditional relationship woes dominate, and the portrayal of masculinity, femininity, and family sticks to soap opera-level melodrama. It doesn’t subvert, mock, or revise any longstanding traditions; instead, it simply misunderstands them.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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No sign of any ideological monoculture here. Alternative viewpoints aren’t demonized, they aren’t even on the radar. The movie’s world is oddly old-fashioned and blissfully unaware of current ideological trends.

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