U Turn (1997) | How Woke Is It?

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U Turn1997

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What We Think

U Turn is a non-woke, amoral noir that’s more interested in human nastiness than preaching. No sign of modern ideological mandates, just a cast of terrible people making terrible decisions in the desert. Safe viewing for the non-woke crowd.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

U Turn is gritty, pulpy, and focused on flawed characters and noir storytelling rather than modern identity politics. It’s refreshingly unconcerned with forced representation or making its characters into agenda-driven archetypes. People in this film are self-serving, morally grey, and chosen for the story, not boxes checked.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film doesn’t make any particular point to undermine family, masculinity, or tradition, it just delights in showing how broken, corrupt, and desperate the human condition can get in a pressure-cooker. No overt subversion of traditional values, just a darkly comedic descent into chaos.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Alternative perspectives abound, since everyone in U Turn is horrible to each other in their own unique way. There’s no overt ideological lecturing or mocking of traditional worldviews; pretty much everyone, regardless of background, is equally rotten and compromised.

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