Movie review
November 26, 2025 · 114 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The movie keeps pushing queer and transgender eternity options as valid choices the entire time. Joan interacts with a lesbian friend who calls her old closeted life miserable and deals with her first husband who slept with men while waiting decades in the afterlife. It constantly ridicules traditional religion as strange outdated nonsense while celebrating personal hedonistic choices and slamming consumerism as the real god of eternity. The director’s track record on queer stories makes the identity elements feel deliberate.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Eternity.
Woke representation / casting
Standard straight white leads in a straight romance with no forced diversity or mismatches.
Woke political dialogue
Lines push relativism, dismiss traditional religion as weird, and satirize capitalist consumerism.
Identity-driven story themes
Queer World, Transgender World, lesbian side character, and bisexual husband behavior make LGBTQ elements visibly prominent.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Repeatedly mocks traditional religion and frames capitalism as the hollow core of eternal happiness.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Niche religious backlash over faith mockery and queer normalization but no dominant anti-woke storm.
Creator track record context
Director David Freyne’s previous film Dating Amber centers on queer identity and coming out.
Production
