Movie review
July 23, 2021 · 110 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage is a 2021 HBO documentary exploring the 1999 music festival that promised a return to 1969 counterculture ideals but ended in riots, looting, and sexual assaults. The film draws on interviews with organizers, performers, attendees, and cultural critics alongside archival footage. It places strong emphasis on toxic masculinity, white male rage, and misogyny in the 1990s music and festival culture as central explanatory factors.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage.
Woke representation / casting
Standard documentary format with no forced diversity or identity signaling in participant selection.
Woke political dialogue
Experts insert commentary on misogyny, homophobia, and white rage as explanatory factors.
Identity-driven story themes
Core narrative driven by portrayals of male entitlement, gender violence, and racial crowd dynamics.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Blatant modern activist attack on toxic masculinity, raunch culture, and white male entitlement as systemic flaws.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
User backlash in forums and reviews calls it woke propaganda pushing anti-white male and identity politics narratives.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior work is cited.
Production
