Movie review
September 28, 2020 · 83 min · PG
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The documentary is nonstop environmental sermons from start to finish. Attenborough lectures the entire time about how humans destroyed biodiversity and the planet through overpopulation, fossil fuels, industrial farming, and consumerism. It constantly pushes rewilding, renewables, plant-based diets, and population control by raising people out of poverty, providing universal healthcare, and keeping girls in school longer. The institutional critique of modern human society runs through every segment as the core message.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet.
Woke representation / casting
No forced diversity or identity signaling.
Woke political dialogue
The movie keeps pushing environmental activism the whole way through.
Identity-driven story themes
Pushes girls' education to control population growth.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Constantly lectures about human society's destruction of the planet and the need to change industrial ways.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Absence of major woke complaints or anti-woke backlash over identity politics.
Creator track record context
Environmental activist track record through nature documentaries and WWF collaboration.
Production
