The Tribe (2014) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictNot Woke

10%

The Tribe2014

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What We Think

The Tribe is aggressively non-woke. Its narrative is so raw and unfiltered that it almost feels anti-trendy. No identity lectures, no ideological monoculture, just relentless, uncomfortable realism. Definitely not your typical Hollywood product.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

The Tribe is a brutally honest, almost nihilistic look at criminal youth in a Ukrainian deaf boarding school. Identity themes like race and gender barely register; realism and a raw depiction of institutional violence drive the story, not progressive ideology or box-ticking.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

Traditional family, religion, and masculinity aren’t exactly front and center, but the film doesn’t go out of its way to mock or deconstruct them either. Its focus is existential; any undermining is indirect and all due to the grim setting, not any political or woke agenda.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Not Woke

What is this?

If woke means presenting only one modern Western moral worldview, The Tribe is about as far from that as you get. There's little sign of ideological policing or monoculture, though there's almost no positive worldview at all. It’s more bleak realism than progressive fantasizing.

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