A personal guide for finding woke-free films
How to increase one's chances of watching palatable cinema
For the past few months I constantly scan my online cinema platform of choice in an unwavering quest for movies devoid of any woke or globalism-promoted content; and more ambitiously, devoid of any doctrine whatsoever, insomuch as this is possible. As turns out, the outlook is appalling.
Sure, I am aware that cinema —alike literature— plays an important and understandable role in the carrying and widespreading of ideas. Nothing to object to this. My discontent stems from the one-sidedness of those ideas, when cinema is monopolized, controlled and/or channelised by a small cluster of factual powers who, usuallly in order to achieve some selfish —when not visionary and fanciful— goals, finance and sponsor only one set of viewpoints or attitudes and ban or hamper any alternative —let alone dissenting— ones.
Thus, on the one hand, the prevailing cinema industries shoot of late, worldwide, mostly globohomo-compliant movies; and on the other hand, whatever else might be produced out there that defies —or simply ignores— certain ‘guidelines’ hardly ever reaches woke-controlled countries, because such hypothetical films are censored filtered out by the main distribution companies.
Namely, since around the new millennium most productions that ever make their way to Western screens are polluted with —when not loudly and shamelessly patronizing— the nonsensical progressive garbage we endure nowadays. I mean: literally almost any film we can watch from the past couple of decades contains in some degree or other at least one of the following elements:
Gender ideology; homosexuality in any of its modalities; globohomo.
Feminism acclamation; women’s empowerment; housewifery devaluation; masculinity debasement or discrediting; inversion of traditional family roles; prevalence of female characters; belittling marriage.
Woke culture; ‘positive’
racistdiscrimination; over-representation of dark-skinned characters; racial bias (like, the good-natured cop or understanding judge in Hollywood films is often black); welcomeimmigrantsrefugees; interracial relationships (where usually she is white); indigenism; ‘oppressed’ minorities; multiculturalism.The wonders of: technology, video surveillance (Chinese specialty) and AI.
Atheism extolling; looking down on believers.
Vegans/vegetarians; animals’ rights; sustainability; climate change.
Besides this relatively recent (around 2-3 decades old) ideological trend that has pervaded almost everything (commercial adds inclusive) we can watch in the West, Hollywood in particular has been for almost a century, in regard to cultural, social or political indoctrination, the forge of a given set of worldwide prevailing myths and twisted historical narratives. Indisputably the most effective and widespread propaganda factory since the dawn of time, the L.A. based film industry has managed to disseminate all over the planet its Wasp imperialistic or supremacist content; and most of its movies have underlined or portrayed in some way or other at least one of the following ideas (list not exhaustive):
USAns always outsmarting or defeating stupid Mexicans, Indians, Germans, Soviets…
Undisputable superiority of the USAn democratic system; USA’s manifest destiny; the indispensable nation (da greatest country in da wulrd), humankind saviour,
hypocriteflag bearer of the Human Rightsfallaciousconstruct.Jews victimization; da Holocaust; vilifying or caricaturing both fascism and communism.
…
And although it might be understandable or legitimate for a nation to bolster itself even at the expense of truth or objectivity, after half a century of Hollywood pervasiveness (around 8-9 out of every 10 films in my country have for decades come from the USA) I personally have had more than enough of Muricah’s standpoints.
Therefore, considering all of the above and in order to improve my chances of finding palatable, decent, honest movies to watch on my online platform, I usually filter the results by country and year. My method is more or less as follows:
Mandatory rule #1 is: No Hollywood at all. As said, I am fed up with their one-sidedness. I know only too well what to expect from them, the more so when taking into account who controls that factory: the you-know-who.
Rule #2 is to prioritize countries as far as possible from the Western political/ideological/cultural influence — say Russia, Turkey, Iran, Serbia, Japan, China, India… But then of these places I find not too many films, and most of them have been produced during the recent decades and are therefore increasingly affected —or infected— by the aforementioned disgusting woke guidelines. Even Russia’s contemporary cinema suffers from a marked Western sway both on the storylines and the style. Japan is definitely the best alternative, and directors such as Akira Kurosawa or Kenji Mizoguchi never disappoint me.
Next in the list goes European and Hispanic-American cinema, of which there is quite a lot. Unfortunately though, more than half of those movies are garbage; and this takes me straight to rule #3: sorting by date from older to newer. This gives, no doubt, the best results, because many of the films until — let’s say — around the 1990’s are perfectly watchable; unless, that is, they deal with the ‘Holocaust’ in some way or other, directly or tangentially… And believe me: if you have not taken the trouble of thoroughly scanning one of these video platforms, you would hardly imagine the huge amount of Nazism-related films out there. It is un-fucking-believable how even the most unsuspected script contains a reference, however subtle, to poor Jews or evil Germans. And this makes me sick, for it is the tritest —yet not necessarily truest— narrative in recorded history.
Anyhow, the issue with rule #3 is that I hardly find to my taste any movies prior to around mid-20th century, probably because I am far too removed from the concerns on trend by those times, and the stories seldom draw my attention:; plus the video quality of the copies is isually quite bad.
So, at the end of the day I am left with basically European (Japanese too) films from the second half of the 20th century, among which the French and Italian ones are arguably the most suiting my preferences. There are also a few good Spanish creations (prior to the advent of so-called ‘democracy’) and, of course, the rather unknown but good —and independent!— directors Aki Kaurismaki (Finland) and Costa Gavras (Greece).
In conclusion, for a breeze of fresh air, I suggest any reader whose tastes —and most of all, distastes— resonate with mine to follow my selection system and give a try to some of the very pleasant, entertaining, casual, interesting, teaching, non-mainstream, pre-globalism European and Japanese movies. They are too numerous to list here, and anyway that’s not the purpose of this post. Just be aware that, the closer you get to present-day cinema, the lower your chances of finding woke-free content.