Question 1

Is Before the Flood woke?

Accepted Answer

Before the Flood has a woke score of 44/100, which means it is mixed, with noticeable woke elements. Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary in which Leonardo DiCaprio travels to melting glaciers, deforested areas, and affected communities while interviewing scientists, business leaders, and politicians about climate change causes, impacts, and solutions such as renewable energy and the Paris Agreement. The film uses a Hieronymus Bosch painting as a metaphor for human excess leading to ruin and stresses urgent global action to protect ecosystems and native communities. No identity politics, gender themes, racial representation emphasis, or social-justice messaging appears in the narrative, interviews, or structure; the focus stays on environmental science, fossil fuel dependence, and policy responses.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Before the Flood?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Political / ideological dialogue, Creator track record context, Institutional / cultural critique. A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.

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