It still works even if you notice, because for a lot of people if it isn't bad enough they will still want to enjoy it and even accept an X amount of wokeness just because the rest if good enough.
And in doing so, your barometer for "unacceptable" moves a little further out.
Thankfully for me I have some movie standards I hold modern movies to. Almost all don't even come close but you might be right that other people aren't holding movies to a standard.
The more older movies I see the higher my standard goes. Example: I never watched that many action movies(I am more a back to the future kinda guy), I recently watched a lot of the classics and can now hold them up as a standard. Nowadays action is either not a thing anymore or it's some girl boss shit. Thankfully, there's just too many old movies that are interesting.
The thing is, a vast majority of those old movies also have some trace amounts of it. The frog was just boiled that slowly, and our standards have changed that significantly.
Alien for example is such a girlboss movie it would be lambasted as a woke parody these days. With its strong wahmen who is somehow the only one able to use her brain and evil penis monsters killing people with their ultra penis mouths.
Even most action movies have an absurd "protect the womens at all costs, in the face of all logic, and for no reason" consistency. There is almost always one women, she is almost always the most morally innocent/righteous, and she will be put on a pedestal of value well above her actual worth. Predator for another example is one of the most manly man movies ever full of nothing but hardcore action, but for some reason the Commie Guerilla gets to survive because she is the woman and we can't have real bad things to happen to her.
You can say those are just basic tennants of life and weren't made with any political idea in mind, but those are the foundations all of this was built on.
Alien for example is such a girlboss movie it would be lambasted as a woke parody these days. With its strong wahmen who is somehow the only one able to use her brain and evil penis monsters killing people with their ultra penis mouths.
The antagonist being a literal rape monster isn't woke unless you make it so - if sexual horror was automatically woke then the wokists would celebrate stuff like Goblin Slayer rather than condemning it. And I disagree with the "strong wahmen" criticism when the weakest link was also a woman.
Predator for another example is one of the most manly man movies ever full of nothing but hardcore action, but for some reason the Commie Guerilla gets to survive because she is the woman and we can't have real bad things to happen to her.
The woman gets to survive because she's not worth killing. Being an impotent bystander who survives because she wasn't even in the running isn't a feminist message.
And so it can be argued that it is. Which means the frog went from neutral to a hair above neutral by creating a situation in which the barometer is moved ever so slightly that way and our perceptions of reality adjusted for it.
You seem to have missed the point. In which that things that were not necessarily woke in any form are still part of the march towards that wokeness. Because wokeness didn't just spring from nowhere, it was built upon hundreds of little steps and foundational pieces.
Rape monsters unquestionably bad/evil, women being dainty "not worth killing" targets, and all of that are tiny little preconceived notions we have that are exploited to create the emotional manipulations and loopholes in our minds that the Wokeness springs from.
It still works even if you notice, because for a lot of people if it isn't bad enough they will still want to enjoy it and even accept an X amount of wokeness just because the rest if good enough.
And in doing so, your barometer for "unacceptable" moves a little further out.
Thankfully for me I have some movie standards I hold modern movies to. Almost all don't even come close but you might be right that other people aren't holding movies to a standard.
The more older movies I see the higher my standard goes. Example: I never watched that many action movies(I am more a back to the future kinda guy), I recently watched a lot of the classics and can now hold them up as a standard. Nowadays action is either not a thing anymore or it's some girl boss shit. Thankfully, there's just too many old movies that are interesting.
The thing is, a vast majority of those old movies also have some trace amounts of it. The frog was just boiled that slowly, and our standards have changed that significantly.
Alien for example is such a girlboss movie it would be lambasted as a woke parody these days. With its strong wahmen who is somehow the only one able to use her brain and evil penis monsters killing people with their ultra penis mouths.
Even most action movies have an absurd "protect the womens at all costs, in the face of all logic, and for no reason" consistency. There is almost always one women, she is almost always the most morally innocent/righteous, and she will be put on a pedestal of value well above her actual worth. Predator for another example is one of the most manly man movies ever full of nothing but hardcore action, but for some reason the Commie Guerilla gets to survive because she is the woman and we can't have real bad things to happen to her.
You can say those are just basic tennants of life and weren't made with any political idea in mind, but those are the foundations all of this was built on.
The antagonist being a literal rape monster isn't woke unless you make it so - if sexual horror was automatically woke then the wokists would celebrate stuff like Goblin Slayer rather than condemning it. And I disagree with the "strong wahmen" criticism when the weakest link was also a woman.
The woman gets to survive because she's not worth killing. Being an impotent bystander who survives because she wasn't even in the running isn't a feminist message.
And so it can be argued that it is. Which means the frog went from neutral to a hair above neutral by creating a situation in which the barometer is moved ever so slightly that way and our perceptions of reality adjusted for it.
You seem to have missed the point. In which that things that were not necessarily woke in any form are still part of the march towards that wokeness. Because wokeness didn't just spring from nowhere, it was built upon hundreds of little steps and foundational pieces.
Rape monsters unquestionably bad/evil, women being dainty "not worth killing" targets, and all of that are tiny little preconceived notions we have that are exploited to create the emotional manipulations and loopholes in our minds that the Wokeness springs from.