The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024) | How Woke Is It?

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz2024

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What We Think

By today’s standards, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is almost a unicorn: a prestige drama that mostly avoids woke pitfalls. It tells its story without hijacking the narrative for modern ideological statements. Not flawless, but refreshingly non-woke.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

The Tattooist of Auschwitz stays remarkably close to its source material and historical context. Character development focuses primarily on actual survivors and their experience, rather than inserting modern identity themes. The narrative integrity remains mostly intact, without obvious forced representation or contemporary revisionism.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

The show presents traditional themes of love, faith, and survival during one of history’s darkest times. Religion and family play a significant, earnest role, and there’s no major subversion of traditional values; if anything, they’re highlighted.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

While the evils of Nazism are obviously condemned (as they should be), the show does not push any overt present-day ideological monoculture. Traditional perspectives are not villainized excessively outside the historical setting. There’s some focus on victimhood, but this is very much justified by the source material.

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