Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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88%

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge2017

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What We Think

If you like your music docs with a strong shot of activism and counterculture veneration, this is for you. Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge wears its ideology on its sleeve, highlighting progressive causes while treating tradition like a punchline.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

This documentary heavily foregrounds identity politics, progressive musicians, and activist journalists. The focus seems more on celebrating counterculture and left-leaning icons than objectively recounting music or magazine history, so some viewers might find classic storytelling and balance sacrificed for ideology.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional values, religion, and masculinity are typically framed as sources of societal pressure or antagonism, while rebellion and anti-establishment views are lionized. There’s little reverence for longstanding cultural mores, this is about upending them.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The documentary noticeably lacks sincere representation of alternative or non-progressive perspectives regarding music, culture, or social change. Dissenters are largely shown as regressive or obstacles, contributing to a sense of ideological uniformity.

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