Movie review
March 24, 2021 · 89 min · NR
Woke Score
Lower is better
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Seaspiracy.
Woke representation / casting
Documentary interviews with real subjects; no forced diversity or identity signaling.
Woke political dialogue
Repeated activist calls to end fish consumption and expose industry conspiracy.
Identity-driven story themes
No identity-driven story themes or queer elements.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Strong critique of fishing industry, corporations, governments, and NGOs as corrupt and profit-driven but stays generic anti-corporate environmental framing.
Woke character or canon changes
Review
The documentary keeps pushing environmental activist sermons about the fishing industry conspiracy and how viewers must stop eating fish the whole way through. It constantly lectures on profit-driven corporations and NGOs destroying the oceans through overfishing, ghost nets, bycatch, and slavery at sea while rejecting any sustainable fishing as a myth. The entire narrative engine demands systemic change via veganism and marine reserves with no balance or counterpoints.
Not relevant.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Backlash on misinformation and vegan bias; no woke identity politics complaints.
Creator track record context
Kip Andersen's prior work (Cowspiracy, What the Health) shows clear pattern of conspiracy-framing activist environmental documentaries pushing vegan anti-consumption agendas.
Production
