Question 1

Is One Battle After Another woke?

Accepted Answer

One Battle After Another has a woke score of 65/100, which means it is mixed, with noticeable woke elements. This 2025 black comedy action-thriller, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, updated to a contemporary setting. It follows a washed-up white revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) from the mostly Black activist group French 75 raising his biracial daughter (Chase Infiniti) while evading a corrupt military officer (Sean Penn) tied to white supremacists and immigration enforcement raids. Themes of anti-fascism, generational trauma from activism, interracial family dynamics, and resistance to authoritarian institutions are central and clearly noticeable through plot, action, and satire, though balanced by critiques of the radicals’ flaws and personal focus.

Question 2

Is there DEI in One Battle After Another?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Institutional / cultural critique, Political / ideological dialogue, Anti-woke backlash / 'too woke' complaints. Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

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