8 Old Movies That Are 100% Woke (And Nobody Complained)

Online discourse certainly has a way of taking a word from the lexicon and devaluing its meaning through ad nauseam and misinterpretation. While "woke" was co-opted as a critique of some media for delivering sub-par content trying to get by on optics tied to social issues, it soon became an insult hurled at everything and anything that did not fit nicely into a singular box created through the claimant's closed-mindedness. Yes, some films certainly try to put messaging before storytelling in a way that offers up a watered-down final product, but the way "woke" has been thrown around has resulted in a lot of shallow online discourse around film.
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