The Guilty is a 2021 American remake of the Danish thriller in which a demoted LAPD officer works the 911 dispatch desk during a night of Los Angeles wildfires and receives a frantic call from a woman who says she has been kidnapped. He races to help while wrestling with his own guilt over a past on-duty shooting that left a teenager dead. The story focuses on personal regret, snap judgments in crisis, and the fallout from one cop’s anger, with only light background notes on mental health access and policing mistakes.
Community feedback
Was our 27% Woke rating accurate?
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Guilty.
Woke representation / casting
Supporting voice roles include actors from varied ethnic backgrounds that suit a contemporary Los Angeles police and dispatch setting; no race or gender swaps, no visible identity signaling, and no marketing push around diversity.
22%
Woke political dialogue
A few lines reference police procedure, warrants, and mental-health system gaps, but they stay practical and character-driven with no activist slogans or lectures.
18%
Identity-driven story themes
The narrative centers on one man’s personal guilt, rash decisions, and redemption; the mental-illness subplot deals with medication affordability and family crisis, not group identity, gender, or race-based arcs.
8%
Western institutional / cultural critique
The film shows how one angry cop’s assumptions and past violence create harm and highlights mental-health access barriers and public distrust of police response; the tone is individual accountability and procedural failure rather than systemic racism, toxic masculinity, or anti-patriarchy framing.
28%
Woke character or canon changes
Not present in this title.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Almost no right-leaning or anti-identity-politics criticism surfaced; the film received little political attention overall despite its police theme and release year.
5%
Creator track record context
Lead creatives specialize in mainstream thrillers and character-driven crime drama; any liberal leanings (such as Gyllenhaal’s past comments) remain mild and classical rather than identity or DEI-centered.
16%
Production
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