I'd say this film felt quite anti-woke in its messaging.
Corrupt chick el presidento, lots of gen Z BS scammers, a dude punishing them all - corrupt police, justice system, vile feministas,
Basically.... the new normal being destroyed by an old timer
Not saying the film is amazing, but the messaging is surprisingly anti-woke.
That's a rather pleasant surprise in that regard.
The president is a white woman, and she is not corrupt, her white son is. The ex-CIA director was a white man, he was corrupt.
The new CIA director is a woman.
The new Beekeeper is a woman.
The FBI vice director is a black man, the main FBI agent in charge is a black woman.
So this certainly is progressive, the only surprise is you take this as anti-woke. I think it shows brainwashing does work.
Every now and again, I get bored enough to engage with one of the more idiotic people on Moviechat:
NOTHING you described is "woke." As countless people have pointed out in countless posts, you CANNOT assign intent to casting choices, without much, Much more info than you will ever have. MORE IMPORTANTLY:
1) Forced diversity is Not "Woke," any more than "MAGA" is conservative.
2) "Progressive" doesn't mean what you think it does, and it is certainly Never A Perjorative.
3) "Woke" simply means "I'm aware that serious social inequities exist; I'll try to stay aware of them."
Example: Trans people exist, they deserve respect: Woke. Trans women should compete with biological women: NOT Woke. (Stupidity. See the difference?)
Conclusion: you're an ignorant fool who desperately searches for things to be outraged about. Please, PLEASE: Do Not Breed.
The language you used is far more juvenile than OP, you really should look at yourself in the mirror.
Anyway you are the sort of people I put on ignore list, even though this looks like an account you use for trolling. I think at the core you are clearly a coward.
It takes someone who is a special kind of stupid to refer to concepts/language over their head as "juvenile."
Of course: you don't (can't) respond intelligently to the substance of my post.
Anyway, feel free to ignore me: doesn't make you any less of an idiot.
maybe the problem is that you idiots analyse everything through this woke vs non-woke lens and apply it to EVERYTHING even when it's not there.
maybe it's not woke or anti-woke, maybe it's just a shitty action film and you're just obsessed losers who can't help but apply your small minded political opinions onto everything you see
I get what you're saying -
I do indeed start looking at most films/series through that lense these days. What I mean to say is - wokism is now part of my review process. Woke = minus points. Regular film= plus points (or at least, no deductions).
It may upset you, and I get it. If it deeply offends you, so be it.
Do keep in mind, back in the day, feminists used to do the same thing to films. They actually had a whole review system in place to measure how unrepresented women were - how much screen time women got, how much screen time with the lead women got, how much dialogue women had, how they were depicted, what social role they represented, etc, etc.
What's funny is that there were no investment firms paying to push women down in films back then. What we are seeing in films now - as far as DEI and ESG is concerned, is by far more intentionally pushed by various big-name investment firms and film corporation CEOs.
In other words, what feminists saw was most likely either due to business decision or because of society not being progressive enough. The discrimination via woke agenda I am observing now is by far more sinister in comparison. So, yeah - I'll continue to bring it up. Sorry.
The bad guys were tech\nft\crypto bros, people associated with the anti-woke crowd. Adam Clay was doing all this for an older black teacher who was "the only one who cared about me" - when anti-woke crowd has a widespread belief that teachers are bad and indoctrinating children. Hatred for corrupt cops is a WAY more common belief among the woke crowd. I've no idea how you came to your conclusion.
Hmm.... I assumed the tech peeps with purple hair were more akin to big tech and the woke antifa mob.
Having said that, you could be right - at least, as far as hollywood perception is concerned. Them going after grandmas may also be indicative of them being aligned with anti-woke and anti-vax crowed (grandma killers?).
I think making them sound like antifa and with woke hairstyles is what led me to think that way. It's possible that this is how hollywood sees the anti-woke movement? If so, curious.