Question 1

Is The Long Walk woke?

Accepted Answer

The Long Walk has a woke score of 87/100, which means it is heavily driven by woke themes. The movie race-swaps McVries from white in the book to Black and turns the main friendship into a queer love story with gay implications. It keeps pushing the intimate homoerotic bond between Garraty and McVries the whole way through as the emotional heart. The story constantly highlights the queer-coded male intimacy under tyranny.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Long Walk?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Identity-driven story themes, Legacy character or canon changes, Representation / casting choices. In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

The Long Walk

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