Question 1

Is Elio woke?

Accepted Answer

Elio has a woke score of 27/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. The final film is a straightforward Pixar adventure about a lonely 11-year-old space-obsessed kid who gets mistaken for Earth’s ambassador by aliens, makes an alien friend, and learns to feel like he belongs somewhere. The core story engine is personal self-discovery, grief, and friendship—no lectures, no activist speeches, no identity-politics sermons. Diverse voice casting (mixed-heritage lead for a Latino-named boy, Latina aunt) is noticeable but not the point of the movie. Early queer-coded elements tied to the original director were explicitly cut during production. What’s left is light, universal “find your place” themes with zero forced agenda.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Elio?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Creator track record context, Representation / casting choices, Identity-driven story themes. Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.

Elio

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