Question 1

Is I, Daniel Blake woke?

Accepted Answer

I, Daniel Blake has a woke score of 61/100, which means it is mixed, with noticeable woke elements. I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 British social realist drama in which a widowed Newcastle carpenter denied disability benefits after a heart attack must navigate humiliating jobcentre requirements, sanctions, and outsourced assessments while befriending a single mother relocated from London who faces parallel welfare struggles and deepening poverty. The story culminates in tragedy as bureaucratic rules ignore medical reality and lead to the protagonist’s death before his appeal hearing. The film delivers highly visible institutional critique by framing Conservative austerity policies and the UK benefits system as deliberately cruel and dehumanizing, with characters explicitly discussing how the apparatus is designed to wear down claimants and an on-screen speech rejecting treatment as “a blip on a computer screen.” No race, gender, or queer identity themes appear; the narrative engine remains strictly class-based economic hardship presented through traditional social realism.

Question 2

Is there DEI in I, Daniel Blake?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Creator track record context, Institutional / cultural critique, Political / ideological dialogue. A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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